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Ἀφ᾽ ὅτου—cf. 49, 2, 62, 4, 68, 2. Contrast the phrase ἐξ ὅτου=‘since which time.’ εἰκὸς ἦν—c. 10, 1. τὰς αἰτίας— = τὰς αἰτίας τοσαύτης μεταβολῆς, ἅστινας υομίζει ἱκανὰς εἶναι. In the adscript, δύναμιν σχεῖν was meant to explain ἱκανὰς εἶναι, ἐς τὸ μεταστῆσαι to explain μεταβολῆς. (To the list of those who bracket here, which is given in the not. crit., add Hampke, Studien, p. 16). ἀφ᾽ ὧν ... σκοπῶν —take ταῦτα below with ἀφ᾽ ὧν,=the symptoms, by which it might be recognised in future. Cf. I. 21, 2 ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων σκοποῦσι, III. 38, 4 ἀπὸ τῶν εὖ εἰπόντων σκοποῦντες. ἄν— belongs to ἔχοι, cf. c. 41, 1.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 2. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1891.
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