[110] {touto megathos}, "as regards attaining the same size," but probably the text is corrupt. Stein reads {to megathos} in his later editions.
[111] Or, "Philition."
[112] {to theo}, the goddess Leto, cp. i. 105.
[113] {suntakhunein auton ton bion}: some MSS. and Editors read {auto} for {auton}, "that heaven was shortening his life."
[114] More literally, "bidding him take up the bloodmoney, who would." The people of Delphi are said to have put Esop to death and to have been ordered by the Oracle to make compensation.