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Μαλόεις was a local name of Apollo in Lesbos; its origin is unknown. πανδημεί—the whole people together, not by families or clans. ἐλπίδα εἶναι like εἰκός ἐστι, is commonly followed by pres. or aor. infin. ἐπειχθέντας is conditional. ἢν μὲν ξυμβῇ . . εἰ δὲ μή—a common idiom, found already in Homer; cf. e.g. Plato, Prot. 325B ἐὰν μὲν ἑκὼν πείθηται: εἰ δὲ μή. εἰπεῖν—this depends on the sense of ‘order’ implied in the passage; cf. Andoc. de Myst. 20 ὁ γὰρ νόμος οὕτως εἷχεν: εἰ μὲν τἀληθῆ μηνύσειέ τις, εἶναι τὴν ἄδειαν, εἰ δὲ τὰ ψευδῆ, τεθνάναι. Of course εἰπεῖν = κελεῦσαι. (This passage is brief and peremptory in tone: its dramatic manner is quite characteristic, and there is no ground for suspecting the text.)
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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