E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6

ᾗ πυνθάνεσθε—sc. ἥκειν: but ἥν is direct obj. of ὑπονοοῦμεν. (So Classen; Kruger and others explain ᾗ as attracted for ἥν, and ἥν as left unattracted for the sake of variety, but this is scaicely probable.)

κατοικίσαι . . ἐξοικἰσαι—paronomasia, adnominatio; cf. c. 76, 4 ἀξυνετωτέρου, κακοξυνετωτέρου: 79, 2 ἀλόγως . . εὐλόγῳ. It is very common in Thuc. See c. 72, 4.

τὰς μὲν ἐκει ῀ πόλεις—Aegina, Scione, and Melos are especially referred to.

Χαλκιδέων—see c. 3, 3. The Chalcidians of Euboea are said to be ‘enslaved’ because their independence is gone. δουλεία often denotes the opposite of αὐτονομία.

δουλωσαμένους ἔχειν—cf. c. 39, 2 n. There is again an enthymeme here. See on c. 10, 5.