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σπένδεται—the middle expresses reciprocity.

πέμψαισπένδομαι can also take fut. infin.


ἔβαλλον—Plutarch adds πρὸς ὕβριν καὶ μετ᾽ ὀργῆς ἀπειλοῦντες.

καὶ τούτους—as they had done before to Demosth.


φυλάξαντες—cf. II. 3 φυλάξαντες ἔτι νύκτα=‘waiting for the time when it was still night.’

τὸ ἡσυχάζον—cf. c. 68.1

ἀναλαμβάνουσί τε . . . καὶ—parataxis, as often with τε . . . καὶ, καὶ . . . καὶ, μὲν . . . δὲ.


ἐχώρουν—they were afterwards caught; c. 85.2.

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    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.3
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