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οἷς ἔσπειστο—see c. 109, 2. πρόφασιν—the so-called accus. in apposition to a sentence, best regarded as a free use of the internal or adverbial accus. The actions described are the πρόφασις (Bayfield on Soph. El. 130, Hardie, Latin Prose, p. 7).
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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