Notes on Herodotus

A TRANSLATOR, being obliged by the nature of his task to attend to every single successive phrase of his author, however plain the meaning may seem, and to consider the intelligibility of what he renders to the uninitiated, sometimes discovers points of real difficulty which have escaped even the most thorough commentators, or arrives at fresh solutions of old problems. That is my excuse for publishing here a number of detached observations on Herodotus, which have suggested themselves to me while making a new translation during the last four years.