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16 μετανίστατο — Greece (i.e. the Greeks) was still occupied with migration and settlement, so that the country did not quiet down (ingressive) and so increase.
Ἑλλάς here is used as in c. 6, for the Greek nation—ἡ Ἑ. ἐσιδηροφόρει—and this explains (a) the use of μετανίστατο, (b) the accus. ἡσυχάσασαν, for which, as it refers to the subject of the main verb, ἡσυχάσασα would be expected. Ἑλλάς takes a slightly different meaning after the ὥστε. A similar change of meaning may be detected in 7.34. 6 ναυμαχήσαντες δὲ ἀντίπαλα καὶ ὡς αὐτοὺς ἑκατέρους ἀξιοῦν νικᾶν, where the ὡς-clause is general in sense, the way in which both sides lay claim to victory.
17. ὥστε μὴ ἡ. αὐξηθῆναι—the μή belongs to both partic. and infin., and ὥστε ... αὐξηθῆναι expresses ἀχρηματία.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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