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6. πρὸς Ὀλύνθου—on the side towards Olynthus near Potidaea (=τῆς πόλεως). The other reading Ὀλύνθῳ, is inconsistent with 62.3, and as Jowett says, Aristeus cannot have left Potidaea unprotected.
8. ἔξω τῆς πόλεως — the plan of bringing the necessaries outside a city and selling them to troops encamped there was often adopted when it was desirable that the men should not go inside. We hear of it elsewhere in Thuc. and in the Anab.
14. τοῦ Ἀριστέως ... ἔχοντι —ἔχοντα (see crit. note) would be regular before the infin; but ἔχοντι is likely to have been altered to this. The dat. is used as if ἔδοξε τῷ Ἀριστεῖ had preceded. The only exact parallels cited for this are from Homer and tragedy; cf. Soph. OT 350 ἐννέπω σὲ ... ἐμμένειν ... ὡς ὄντι. In order to avoid the change, τῷ μέν for τὸ μέν agreeing with ἔχοντι has been proposed; but the expression so produced (τῷ ... ἔχοντι) is not very probable: we should expect αύτῷ μέν.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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