C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4

CHAPTER CXXIX

σχόντες κατά—‘landing at, or over against’: so i. 110: vi. 97: more commonly with ἐς or the dat. as noted on ch. 3, 6. Posidonium, or Posideum, seems to have been a point facing south-west, not far from Mende, which was situated about half way along the western side of the isthmus of Pallene.

ξύμπαντες—‘in all’; δέ is added somewhat unusually. ἐξεστρατοπεδευμένοι—outside the city: some manuscripts have ἐστρατοπεδευμένοι. The compound is rare, but occurs Xen. Cyr. vi. 3. 1.

τραυματιζόμενος—i.e. his troops received wounds: so i. 63, βαλλόμενος καὶ χαλεπῶς. Had Nicias himself been meant, we should have τραυματισθείς.

ἐκ πλείονος—of space, ‘from further off’, i.e. by a longer way.

ἐς ὀλίγον—‘within a little’, with inf., an unusual phrase: cf. ch. 106, 20.