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ἐτείχιζον τὸν κρημνόν—‘they proceeded to build a wall on the cliff,’ not ‘built a wall along the cliff,’ as Classen. This is the short piece of wall that ran from the κύκλος to the Portella del Fusco, and is more accurately described in § 3 as τὸ πρὸς τὸν κρημνόν. (Arnold, Grote, and Freeman understand ‘they fortified a point on the cliff,’ and assume that Nicias subsequently filled in the space between this new fort and the κύκλος with a wall which Thuc. does not mention. They increase the difficulty by placing the κύκλος too far north. Lupus, Stahl, and Fr. Muller read <ἐς> τὸν κρημνόν, but this is not necessary when the κύκλος is rightly placed, the distance now built being so short that the wall ‘to the cliff’ can be fairly called a wall ‘on the cliff.’） ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἕλους—Lysimeleia, now Pantanelli. τῶν Ἐπιπολῶν depends on ταύτῃ. διὰ τοῦ ὁμαλοῦ—a lower level than Epipolae, but not so low as the marsh.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 6. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1909. Professional Data Entry.
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