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φερόμενον ... οὐ τὰ δεύτερα. A metaphor from athletic contests; cf. Il. xxiii. 537 = οὐδενὸς δεύτερος (i. 23).

This notice of Pedasa (cf. v. 121 n.) is a repetition of one already given (i. 175), and was probably originally added in the margin by some reader who remembered the earlier chapter, and thence crept into the text. Here it does not suit the context. Again, though in style partially Herodotean, it betrays its origin by strange usages such as ἐντὸς χρόνου, an unlucky imitation of ἑκὰς χρόνου (ch. 144. 5) and ἀμφί with the genitive, while φύει and χαλεπόν seem like a grammarian's explanations of the Herodotean (i. 175) ἴσχει and ἀνεπιτήδεον: Finally, Strabo (611) quotes the passage as given in Bk. I, i. e. in its true form.

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