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28. φαρμάκῳ—the story was that be drank bull's blood: Thuc. evidently thinks it a foolish tale, Aristoph. Eq. 83.
4. ἄρτον ... οἷνον ... ὄψον—according to a Persian custom: cf. Plat. Alc. i. p. 123 B ‘he said (the person meant is perhaps Xenophon) he passed a district which the inhabitants called ζωνὴν τῆς βασιλέως γυναικός: and another called “the mirror” ... καὶ ὀνόματ᾽ ἔχειν ἑκάστους τῶν τόπων ἀπὸ ἑκάστου τῶν κόσμων.’ Lampsacns and Myus belonged to the Delian League, so Them. cannot have actually enjoyed their revenues.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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