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οἳ ... ποιησάμενοι. H. begins to say that the generals called an assembly and addressed it, and then only names Themistocles as making a speech, alluding to the other speakers merely by the words ἐκ πάντων, for which cf. i. 134. 2.

‘The whole speech was a contrast of the better and the worse in all that belongs to man's nature and condition.’ H. spares us the well-worn antitheses, victory and defeat, freedom and slavery, &c. Cf. Aesch. Pers. 402 παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε”, | ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ̓, ἐλευθεροῦτε δέ, | παῖδας, γυναῖκας, θεῶν τε πατρῴων ἕδη, | θήκας τε προγόνων: νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών.


καταπλέξας, ‘having wound up,’ i. e. finished (iv. 205. 1).

κατά: to fetch the Aeacidae; cf. ch. 84. 2; iii. 4. 2; and for the facts ch. 64.

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