[sect. 2]
kata\ po/lis. H. writes like a Greek here, though at times (e.g.
8. γ 3) he remembers that there are tribes as well as cities in the
East. No real attempt was made to urbanize the interior of Asia
before Alexander.
pollw=| ple/w. Nothing is said in iii. 89f. of Persian subjects
furnishing contingents, but no doubt this had been part of Darius'
organization. Cf. App. VI. 8.
ne/as: war-ships, and especially triremes (cf. viii. 1, 2).
ploi=a: transports, to carry horses (ἱππαγωγά, cf. 21. 2, 97) and
provisions (σιταγωγά, cf. 186. 1, 191. 1).
e)pi\ tri/a e)/tea. For the chronology cf. vii. 20 n.
