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κατελάμβανον, ‘tried to hold back’; cf. iii. 36. 1.

ἐπιτηδεότερος. It was suitable for cavalry (cf. vi. 102), but the advantages here put forward are its convenience as a base of supply and as head-quarters for negotiations. From οὐκ . . . ἔων a word such as ἐκέλευον must be supplied; cf. v. 82. 2; vii. 104. 5, 143. 3.


κατὰ ... τὸ ἰσχυρόν, ‘by force of arms’; cf. i. 76. 3.

ταὐτὰ ἐγίνωσκον: a synonym for ὁμοφρονέοντας; cf. ταὐτὰ φρονέειν, v. 3. 1, 72. 2, &c. The relative clause shows that this union is no mere possibility, but certain to occur, as it had before.

περιγίνεσθαι, = ‘conquer’, governs the accusative on the analogy of νικᾶν.

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