33 [ { autos eoutou peei pollo upodeesteros e tou thereos}.]
34 [ { diakaion ten diexodon auto}, i.e. { to reri}. Some Editors read { autou} (with inferior MSS.) or alter the word to { eoutou}.]
35 [ "set forth, so far as I understood."]
36 [ { epi makrotaton}, "carrying the inquiry as far as possible," cp. ch. 34.]
37 [ I have little doubt that this means the island of Elephantine; for at this point only would such a mixture of races be found. To this the writer here goes back parenthetically, and then resumes the account of the journey upwards from Tachompso. This view is confirmed by the fact that Strabo relates the same thing with regard to the island of Philai just above Elephantine.]
40 [ i.e. the hieratic and the demotic characters.]
42 [ Referring apparently to iii. 28, where the marks of Apis are given. Perhaps no animal could be sacrificed which had any of these marks.]
43 [ { kephale keine}, "that head," cp. { koilien keinen} in the next chapter.]
4601 [ Or, "assuming that in those days as now, they were wont to make voyages, and that some of the Hellenes were seafaring folk."]
48 [ { lampontos tas nuktas megathos}: some Editors alter { megathos} to { megalos} or { mega phos}.]
50 [ { uon}: some Editors read { oion} "sheep," on the authority of one MS.]
51 [ { ta ounamata}, which means here rather the forms of personification than the actual names.]
54 [ { upo phego pephukuie}, i.e. the oak-tree of the legend was a real growing tree, though the dove was symbolical.]
56 [ { prosagogas}, with the idea of bringing offerings or introducing persons.]
57 [ { epoiethesan}, "were first celebrated."]
61 [ { tesi thusiesi, en tini nukti}: some MSS. give { en te nukti}: hence several Editors read { tes thusies en te nukti}, "on the night of the sacrifice."]
62 [ Or, "for what end this night is held solemn by lighting of lamps" (B.R.), making { phos kai timen} one idea.]
63 [ { alexomenous}: this, which is adopted by most Editors, is the reading of some less good MSS.; the rest have { alexomenoi}, "strike them and defend themselves."]
6301 [ { eousa e Aiguptos k.t.l.}: the MSS. have { eousa de Aiguptos}: Stein reads { eousa gar Aiguptos}.]
64 [ { theia pregmata katalambanei tous aielourous}, which may mean only, "a marvellous thing happens to the cats."]