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58As for the Hellenic race, it has used ever the same language, as I clearly perceive, since it first took its rise; but since the time when it parted off feeble at first from the Pelasgian race, setting forth from a small beginning it has increased to that great number of races which we see,[62] and chiefly because many Barbarian races have been added to it besides. Moreover it is true, as I think,[62a] of the Pelasgian race also,[63] that so far as it remained Barbarian it never made any great increase.
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Notes
[62] {auxetai es plethos ton ethneon pollon}: "has increased to a multitude of its races, which are many." Stein and Abicht both venture to adopt the conjecture {Pelasgon} for {pollon}, "Pelasgians especially being added to them, and also many other Barbarian nations."
[62a] {pros de on emoige dokeei}: the MSS. have {emoi te}. Some Editors read {os de on} (Stein {prosthe de on}) for {pros de on}. This whole passage is probably in some way corrupt, but it can hardly be successfully emended.
[63] i.e. as it is of the Hellenic race before it parted from the Pelasgian and ceased to be Barbarian.