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ἑξάμηνον. For H.'s scepticism cf. iv. 191 ad fin. The ‘six months'’ sleep is a confused tradition of the perpetual night of the polar winter. Rawlinson (iii. 207), however, refers it to the severity of a Russian winter, requiring an indoor life for six months.

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