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ἀπεκήδευσαν, ‘had made an end of mourning for.’ ἀπό, ‘to the full’; cf. ii. 40. 4; viii. 76. 3.

ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀσωπόν. Grundy (p. 470, n. 473) still clings to his view that H. uses the Asopus in two senses. Here and in ch. 40 he admits that it refers to the main stream, the ‘Thespian’ Asopus, but in line 1 and elsewhere (especially in ch. 51. 1) he insists that H. uses the name for the brook marked ‘A. 1’ on his plan, the ‘Plataean’ Asopus. This cutting of the knot has not found favour with other writers (Woodhouse, J. H. S. xviii. 56; Munro, J. H. S. xxiv. 161; E. Meyer, iii, p. 413). The name is throughout applied to the main stream. Mardonius' foot was stationed on the left bank (ch. 36, 40, 59), to protect the road to Thebes, which was threatened by the Greeks in their second position (25. 2 n.).

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