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16. ὅσαι μέν κτλ.—“This clause (down to ἕκαστοι ἰσχύος) is really subordinate to αἱ δὲ παλαιαί κτλ. Whereas the most recent cities, etc,” Forbes.
17. πλωιμωτέρων ὄντων—when navigation was easier, impers, gen. abs. corresponding to πλωιμώτερα ἐγένετο 8. 2. It is a question whether περιουσίας ... ἔχουσαι goes closely with πλωιμωτέρων ὄντων, so that καί joins νεώτατα to ἔχουσαι, or belongs to ἐκτίζοντο: c. 8 καταστάντος τοῦ Μίνω ναυτικοῦ πλωιμώτερα ἐγένετο (i.e. as early as Minos) favours the former; but c. 8.3 seems to show that Thuc. uses νεώτατα here vaguely of cities founded since Minos purged the seas.
20. ἀπελάμβανον—occupied, cutting them off from the mainland with walls. The change of subject from the placenames to their inhabitants is common, e.g. 6.48; 74. 1; 75. 2; 88. 8; 94. 1.
21. ἕκαστοι—in this place because it goes closely with πρὸς τοὺς προσοίκους. On the order of ἕνεκα see 5. 1.
22. ἐπὶ πολύ—temporal.
23. On ἀντίσχουσαν (=διὰ τὸ τὴν λ. ἀντίσχειν) see 6. 2 l. 19.
24. καὶ ἐν—the art. not repeated, as often in Thuc. (6. 1), even when the two members are contrasted.
25. ἔφερον—sc. οἱ λῃστεύοντες. They plundered not only one another but those who, though not sea-farers, lived on the coasts (=παραθαλάσσιοι ἦσαν).
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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