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The cities of Pallene were in alliance (§ 2 ad fin.); so Scione (vii. 123. 1 n.) furnished a contingent for the defence of Potidaea.

ὅκως ... γράψειε, ‘as often as’; for the optative cf. ch. 52. 1; i. 17. 2 ad fin.

γλυφίδας: probably the points on each side of the notch, where the arrow is held by the fingers. The parchment was rolled round the butt end of the arrow and then feathers put on over it to hide it. Aeneas Tacticus 31, repeating this story, reads περί, but that would mean that the notch was wrapped round, which would make the arrow so clumsy as to be useless. For a similar method of communication cf. Caesar, B. G. v. 48.

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