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4. ταῦτα—i.e. withdraw the ships and the Illyrians.
ἑτοῖμοι δὲ εἶναι—Krüger supplies δικαζεσθαι, and ὥστε then =‘on the understanding that’; but this is not very satisfactory after ποιήσειν ταῦτα has intervened. Bohme and others make μένειν depend on ἑτοῖμοι εἷναι, with ὥστε pleonastic; and for this ἱκανὸς ὥστε is cited from Plat. Protag 338 c. In either case the sense is the same; they were prepared to agree that besiegers and besieged should stay as they were and make a truce until the arbitration was concluded. ποιήσασθαι is co-ordinate with μένειν. (Mr. Forbes supplies ποιεῖν ταῦτα to ἑτοῖμοι εἶναι: but ποιεῖν ταῦτα cannot=δικάζεσθαι, for in that case the second proposal of the Coreyraeans, ἢν καὶ ἐκεῖνοι κτλ., is a less conciliatory suggestion than their original proposal, 28.2.)
9. προπέμψαντες ... πρότερον—pleonasm, as in c. 23. 5.
11. ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ πέντε—the numbers given in c. 27. 2 amount to 68, but to these are to be added the νῆες κεναί from Elis.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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