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10. ἔφασαν—sc. the Athenian ambassadors.
11. βουλεύεσθαι—the attraction of the verb of short rel. sentences in O.O. into infinitive is less rare in Gk. than in Lat.: Thuc. has several examples, e.g. 2.102 λέγεται ... ὅτε δὴ ἀλᾶσθαι. This sentence stands as accus. of respect to οὐδενὸς κτλ.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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