Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus, The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary, Book 7, chapter 14

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προσεκύνεον. For the προσκύνησις cp. c. 136 infra.

ἀπειπάμενος. In a different sense, 5. 56; here ‘reject,’ ‘abandon’; cp. 1. 59, 6. 100, ‘refuse’; 4. 120, 125; c. 205 infra, 9. 7.

ὡς παρ᾽ οὐδενὸς ἀκούσας. οὐδείς, a nobody, ‘one of naught’; so c. 20 infra, 9. 58. The aorists ἀπειπ. ἀκούσας contrast with ποιεύμενος.

ἐξ αὐτῶν: cp. ἐν αὐτοῖσι c. 8 supra.

μέγας καὶ πολλός. Stein sees a reference to this passage in Aristoph. Birds 488, adding four other references to Hdt. from the same play, 552, 1127, 1130, 1145, on which, as evidence of composition and publication, cp. Introduction, § 9.

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