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ζητοῦντές τε—again going back to αἴτιοι δ᾽ ὑμεῖς, ‘seeking something different—one might almost say— from the world in which we live;’ dreamers. ἁπλῶς τε—a resumption of the substance of the whole sentence. σοφιστῶν θεαταῖς καθημένοις—‘men sitting as spectators at a display of sophists,’ as shown in the Protagoras, for example.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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