I’m posting this in hopes that the next person who encounters the following will not have to spend quite as much time as I did trying to resolve this error in Perseus:
Here’s the text-
οἵ γε μὴν Ἠλεῖοι ἐπεὶ ἀπαιτοῦντες τὰς πόλεις τοὺς Ἀρκάδας ἃς ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων ἀφῃρέθησαν ἔγνωσαν αὐτοὺς τοὺς μὲν ἑαυτῶν λόγους ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ ποιουμένους, τοὺς δὲ Τριφυλίους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους τοὺς ἀπὸ σφῶν ἀποστάντας περὶ παντὸς ποιουμένους, ὅτι Ἀρκάδες ἔφασαν εἶναι, ἐκ τούτων αὖ καὶ οἱ Ἠλεῖοι δυσμενῶς εἶχον πρὸς αὐτούς.
Now the meaning I took was: In fact, when the Eleans demanded back from the Arcadians the cities that the Lacedaemonians had taken from them, they observed that the Arcadians paid them no attention, but paid full regard to the Triphylians and the others who had revolted from them (the Lacedaemonians) because they said they were Arcadians, and so because of this, the Eleans as well were feeling hostile towards them (the Arcadians).
Imagine my surprise when I read this translation from Brownson in Perseus:
As for the Eleans, when they demanded back again from the Arcadians the cities of which they had been deprived by the Lacedaemonians and found that the Arcadians gave no heed to phylians and the others who had revolted from them, because these people said they were Arcadians, as a result of this the Eleans in their turn felt unfriendly toward them.
After trying to discover where I’d gone wrong, I thought I just couldn’t be that far off-the translation gave not a hint of the nice contrast that X sets up with τοὺς μέν…ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ ποιουμένους…τοὺς δὲ… περὶ παντὸς ποιουμένους. Finally I found another translation that agreed with mine. So now I asked myself how Brownson could be so far off. Finally the penny dropped and I realised that there was a big chunk of text that must be missing and sure enough, looking at the original translation in the Loeb, discovered:
As for the Eleans, when they demanded back again from the Arcadians the cities of which they had been deprived by the Lacedaemonians and found that the Arcadians gave no heed to their words, but paid the highest regard to the Triphylians and the others who had revolted from them, because these people said they were Arcadians, as a result of this the Eleans in their turn felt unfriendly toward them.
Of course, not being able to find out who the “phylians” were should have been my first clue!