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πέμπτης: translate ‘4 1/2 cubits high’ (not ‘2 1/2’ as Sayce). Cf. i. 50. 2 τρίτον ἡμιτάλαντον= ‘2 1/2 talents’. The σπιθαμή is 12 ‘fingers’, i. e. half a cubit; others make it only 10 fingers, i. e. 7 1/2 inches. The figure is really about 7 feet high.

H. has misplaced the weapons; the bow is in the right hand, the spear in the left; ὡσαύτως, the rest of the dress ‘corresponded’, being both Egyptian and Ethiopian; the bow was especially the Ethiopian weapon, cf. vii. 69. The dress, however, is not really Egyptian; the high cap and the shoes with points turned up are ‘Hittite’.

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