For Pedasus cf. v. 121 n. This part of Caria was again the only one that resisted at the time of the Ionic revolt (v. 119-21); this may be connected with the fact that the Leleges were especially at home here.
τρίς. This portent is mentioned again (viii. 104 n.) in almost the same words, but as having only happened ‘twice’; if both passages be genuine, they clearly prove that Bk. I was written later, but the words in Bk. VIII are probably a gloss.