θεοῦ διδόντος: if God had offered. The gen. abs. is equivalent to a past unfulfilled condition. For the force of the pres. participle, see G. 1255; H. 825. ζῶντα: supplementary participle, to be distinguished from ζῶντα in 14, which also is a supplementary participle, but in indirect discourse. G. 1582, 1583, 1588; H. 982. ἑλέσθαι ἂν τεθνάναι: in i. 6. 4, Socrates imputes this same disposition to Antiphon. Const. ἄν with ἑλέσθαι. δήλω δ̓ ἐγενέσθην κτλ.: “their motives became manifest from their actions.” ἀποπηδήσαντε, ἐπραττέτην: they leaped away, and were busied in. Note the change of tense.
Xenophon: Memorabilia. Josiah Renick Smith. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1903.
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