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τοῖς δέ=ἐκείνοις δέ. καίτοι . . ἀποδιδομένας—‘surely failure to return favours with like favours (cf. ἴσην above) is dishonourable; and not failure to return debts of gratitude that were justly incurred (cf. ὐμεῖς . . ἀδικούμενοι) but of which the payment leads to injustice’ (cf. τοῖς δὲ ἀδικοῦσιν). You should have waited till they were ἀδικούμενοι to return the service they had rendered to you.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 3. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909.
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