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διὰ . . μέλλησιν refers to δοκοῦμεν ἀδικεῖν: this might be a reason for objecting that they should have waited till some wrong was inflicted on them. τὰ δεινά=‘methods of coercion’; for the whole cf. I. 25 κατὰ τὴν Φαιάκων προενοίκησιν τῆς Κερκύρας.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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