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260 671. The corrupt seems to me to conceal the lost verb. The syntax of the sentence may have been something like this: | ; Who has inflicted on thy empire this dreadful penalty for double folly?

857. conceals deep error.

861. The word lost may be. Thus,.

920. For, I want , "dire harnesser of Persians."

921. . I accept unhesitatingly Blomfield's correction,, from Herodotus, vii. 83, which further convinces me that ought to be, covered with gold lace.

942. I can only understand this to mean that (Asiatic) Greeks fighting for Xerxes, though aided by Tyrians, were defeated by (European) Greeks. "Greeks," says Xerxes, "were beaten by Greeks."

Author:Francis William Newman