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18. αἰτίαι μέν—answered by οὐ μέντοι. What follows shows that αἰτίαι alludes only to the dispute about Potidaea—not to the affair of Corcyra as well.
προυγεγένηντο — this (προε-), not προσεγεγένηντο, is the reading of all good MSS. As the ref. is to Potidaea only we should expect either προσεγεγένηντο had been added (to the Corcyrean dispute)—and this is read by many edd.—or αἰτίαι μὲν καὶ αὗται: cf. c. 56. 1 καὶ τάδε ξυνέβη ... διάφορα. But πρου- can stand; for now it is Ἀθηναίοις καὶ Πελοποννησίοις, not merely Ἀ. καὶ Κορινθίοις. Thuc. clearly means that the Corcyrean affair did not constitute a ground of war with Pel. in generai; and now explains why the dispute about Potidaea was such, though even that was a matter for Corinth on her own account in the first instance. προ- means before Sparta took any part. Cf. c. 67. 1.
25. σφίσιν—with ἐμάχοντο, not as in c. 13. 3; 27.1; 61.1 with ἐλθόντες.
27. ξυνερρώγει—ξυρρήγνυμι.
4. τε—so.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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