{mentoi} its usual meaning: Stein in his latest edition reads
{touton men toinun}.

9. {suneneike}: Stein reads {suneneike se}, "supposing that thou art
worsted."

10. {ep andri ge eni}, as opposed to a god.

11. {akousesthai tina psemi ton k.t.l.}, "each one of those who are
left behind."

12. {kai Kurou}, a conjectural emendation of {tou Kurou}. The text of
the MSS. enumerates all these as one continuous line of ascent. It
is clear however that the enumeration is in fact of two separate
lines, which combine in Teïspes, the line of ascent through the
father Dareios being, Dareios, Hystaspes, Arsames, Ariamnes,
Teïspes, and through the mother, Atossa, Cyrus, Cambyses, Teïspes.

13. {kai mala}: perhaps, "even."

13a. Lit. "nor is he present who will excuse thee."

14. Lit. "my youth boiled over."

15. Lit. "words more unseemly than was right."

16. {all oude tauta esti o pai theia}.

17. {peplanesthai}.