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ἐξ ἐμεῦ: cf. v. 11. 1; vi. 13. 1. Alexander was called Φιλέλλην (Dio Chrys. p. 25).


οὐκ οἵοισι. The use of the dative with ἐνορᾶν instead of the accusative (as in i. 170. 2) is without parallel; Stein justifies it by its use with the kindred word συνειδέναι (ix. 60. 3; v. 24. 3, &c.).

χείρ is joined with δύναμις as a symbol of power in iv. 155. 4; cf. Isaiah lix. 1, ‘Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save’; cf. l. 2, and for kings Ovid, Her. xvii. 166 ‘An nescis longas regibus esse manus?’ The term ‘long-armed’ is therefore given to Eastern kings (so Nala, ii. 12 ‘Bhimas ma`hâbâhur’ and Artaxerxes μακρόχειρ), though the term was in this case supposed by some to refer to a physical peculiarity (Plut. Artax. 1).


ἐν τρίβῳ, ‘in the path’ of danger, imitated by Dionysius vi. 34, xi. 54.

ἐξαίρετον μεταίχμιον. Attica lay between the two powers as a natural battle-ground, since the Persians held Greece as far south as Cithaeron, and their enemies the Peloponnese to the Isthmus.

ἀλλὰ πείθεσθε: cf. ch. 62. 2.

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