Ch. 199
u(yhlota/th. H. here produces the right impression, though his
facts are not strictly accurate; Cyrene is the highest part (some
1,800 feet) of the coast region of North-east Africa, which he has in
his mind; but the ranges behind, of which he did not know (e. g.
Mount Harutch), rise 1,000 feet higher.
Pacho, pp. 235-6, says, La graduation de ces terrasses boises
et leur condition varie . . . mettent la merveilleuse tradition
d'Hrodote hors de tout soupon d'exagration. Hamilton
(p. 124) confirms the threefold vintage from his own experience
(cf. also Barth. W. 403). H.'s description becomes poetical in its
enthusiasm.
Ch. 200
H. here resumes his narrative from c. 167.
o)ru/gmata u(po/gaia. For mining cf. v. 115. 2, vi. 18 (Miletus).
The Persians inherited the arts of besieging towns from Assyria.
[sect. 2]
e)pi/xalkos here = χάλκεος. Cf. ix. 80. 1, 82. 2 for ἐπίχρυσος
and χρύσεος used of the same κλῖναι.
