66 [ { dikhelon, oplai boos}, "he is cloven-footed, and his foot is that of an ox." The words { oplai boos} are marked as spurious by Stein.]
67 [ i.e. above the marshes, cp. ch. 92.]
68 [ { pante}, which by some is translated "taken all together," "at most." Perhaps there is some corruption of text, and the writer meant to say that it measured two cubits by one cubit.]
6801 [ The reading of the Medicean MS. is { en esti}, not { enesti} as hitherto reported.]
70 [ { ton Linon okothen elabon}: the MSS. have { to ounoma} after { elabon}, but this is omitted by almost all Editors except Stein, who justifies it by a reference to ch. 50, and understands it to mean "the person of Linos." No doubt the song and the person are here spoken off indiscriminately, but this explanation would require the reading { tou Linou}, as indeed Stein partly admits by suggesting the alteration.]
71 [ The words "and Bacchic (which are really Egyptian)," are omitted by several of the best MSS.]
73 [ In connexion with death apparently, cp. ch. 132, 170. Osiris is meant.]
81 [ { zuga}, to tie the sides and serve as a partial deck.]
82 [ { esti de oud' outos}: a few MSS. have { ouk} instead of { oud'}, and most Editors follow them. The meaning however seems to be that even here the course in time of flood is different, and much more in the lower parts.]
83 [ { os apergmenos ree}: the MSS. mostly have { os apergmenos reei}, in place of which I have adopted the correction of Stein. Most other Editors read { os apergmenos peei} (following a few inferior MSS.), "the bend of the Nile which flows thus confined."]
84 [ Not therefore in the Delta, to which in ch. 15 was assigned a later origin than this.]
85 [ { kat' ouden einai lamprotetos}: Stein reads { kai} for { kat'}, thus making the whole chapter parenthetical, with { ou gar elegon} answered by { parameipsamenos on}, a conjecture which is ingenious but not quite convincing.]
86 [ { stratien pollen labon}: most of the MSS. have { ton} after { pollen}, which perhaps indicates that some words are lost.]
87 [ { kai prosotata}: many MSS. have { kai ou prosotata}, which is defended by some Editors in the sense of a comparative, "and not further."]
88 [ { Suroi} in the better MSS.; see note in i.6.]