A Victor of Salamis
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FOOTNOTES
1 A word conveying at once "welcome!" and "farewell!"
2 The chief magistrate of an Attic commune.
3 Attic law allowed a husband to will his wife to a friend.
4 A kind of grasshopper peculiar to Greece.
5 A kind of beetle common in Greece.
6 "Give herself airs."
7 The police magistrates of Athens.
8 A number, of course, grossly exaggerated.
9 A pottage peculiar to Sparta, made of lumps of meat, salt, and much vinegar.
10 Equivalent to crying "Hound!" in English.
11 The serfs of the Spartans.
12 The Phoenician Hercules.
13 Nearly two hundred miles.
14 Approximately September.
15 A division in the Spartan army.
16 Who in full force had joined the Persians.
17 The rack.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The author's footnotes have been moved to the end of the volume.
Blackletter has been marked with asterisks.
The following typographical errors were corrected:
page 6, "gridle" changed to "girdle" page 8, "seashore" changed to "sea-shore" page 23, "earthern" changed to "earthen" page 24, "Thacian" changed to "Thasian" page 29, "good humoredly" changed to "good-humouredly" page 31, "Mantineia" changed to "Mantinea" page 32, "honor" changed to "honour" page 63, "waterpots" changed to "water-pots" page 65, "humorous" changed to "humourous" page 90, "Nausicaea" changed to "Nausicaae" page 92, "pentaconters" changed to "penteconters" page 93, missing quote added before "We can say" page 95, "he" changed to "be" page 101, comma changed to period after "house was out" page 107, "fish-monger" changed to "fishmonger" page 117, added italics to "Ai!" page 133, "Baylonish" changed to "Babylonish" page 145, "Neverthless" changed to "Nevertheless" page 146, "haircloth" changed to "hair-cloth" page 157, "sailcloth" changed to "sail-cloth" page 173, semicolon added after "beautiful" page 176, single quote changed to double quote after "kings reign forever!" page 196, "intrust" changed to "entrust" page 229, "torchlight" changed to "torch-light" page 230, "goatskin" changed to "goat-skin" page 238, comma removed after "Themistocles" page 280, "Ameinas" changed to "Ameinias" page 283, "Ameinas's" changed to "Ameinias's" page 288, "renegadoes" changed to "renegades" page 301, "Phelgon's" changed to "Phlegon's" page 324, removed italics from "Artemisia" page 325, "maelstrom" changed to "maelstrom" page 327, "Psytalleia" changed to "Psyttaleia" page 368, "fagots" changed to "faggots" page 377, "warships" changed to "war-ships" page 396, "lieutenant" changed to "lieutenants" page 404, missing period added after "are great gods" page 419, "bowstring" changed to "bow-string" page 424, single quote removed after "Such as what?" page 432, "Pinatate" changed to "Pitanate" page 445, comma added after "Zariaspes", "Gobyras" changed to "Gobryas" page 451, "Caesar" changed to "Caesar"
Some variants in spelling, capitalization or hyphenation which cannot beregarded as simple typographical errors have been retained.