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In all probability the words Σμερδομένης Ὀτάνεω should come after ἀνεψιοί, as otherwise we must suppose that Otanes (cf. ch. 40) was a brother of Darius, or married his sister, of which we hear nothing elsewhere. Further, the relationship of Mardonius to Xerxes noticed above (ch. 5. 1) would here be strangely omitted. ἀδελφεῶν would seem to include brother and sister, since Tritamaechmes was son of Darius' brother, and Mardonius of his sister.

Μασίστης: cf. ix. 107, 113.

Μεγάβυζος: cf. iii. 160.

Γέργις. The name of this otherwise unknown man comes in strangely here and in ch. 121 among members of the families of the king and of the Seven (iii. 84).

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