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ᾧ γὰρ δοκεῖ . . παρέξει—‘if anyone is thinking that L. is far away, the advantage will be given to him close at hand’; that will come home to him. ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ ἔσται—‘will turn on Attica, but (on the country) through which . . ,’ i.e. ἐν τῇ ξυμμαχικῇ; the issue depends on the action of the ξύμμαχοι The need is to transfer the resources (cf. ὠφελίαν . . ὠφελεῖται) of the ξύμμαχοι from the Athenian to the Spartan side. Cf. Tac. Hist. II. 28 sin victoriae columen in Italia verteretur.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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