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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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