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27. κατά τε τὸ δίκαιον—this does not mean as was right, but that τὸ δίκαιον was the motive put forward by the Corinthians; i.e. τὸ δίκαιον has its rhetorical use, and the plea may be illustrated by the saying συγγνώμη ἀδελφῷ βοηθεῖν.
2. ἅμα δὲ καί—for the δέ following τε cf. c. 11. 1.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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