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CHAPTER CXXXI

οὐκ ἐγίγνετο—‘they could not be walled round’: cf. ch. 9, 26. The clause represents what the men of Scione thought (ἢν μὴ ἕλωσι...οὐ γίγνεται ἠμῶν κ.τ.λ.). For σφῶν cf. ch. 128, 7 etc.

ἐπόντας—so one MS., the rest have ἐπιόντας: cf. ch. 128.

οἱ ἐκ—such uses of the preposition are common enough; here however the additional πολιορκούμενοι is noticeable.

παρὰ θάλασσαν—Classen follows the scholiast in connecting this with ἀφικνοῦνται. Jowett however seems right in translating ‘forcing their way out by the sea-shore’.

διαφυγόντες—ch. 19, 8: with acc. ii. 90, μὴ διαφύγοιεν τὸν ἐπίπλουν. τὸ ἐπὶ τῇ Σκιώνῃ—the blockading force: cf. ch. 14, 32, ἑπὶ τῇ Πύλῳ.

Commentary on Thucydides Book 4. C.E. Graves. London. MacMillan & Company. 1884.

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