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9. δορί=μάχῃ, poetical, a remnant of the Ionic in which the original letter was composed.
γνώμην ποιοῦμαι—propose. Stephanus altered ἀποπέμπει above to ἀποπέμπω, but the same change from 3rd to 1st pers. occurs in the terms of the Peace of Antalcidas, Xen. Hell. 5.1.31.
10. τὴν σήν—σήν=‘a daughter of yours’ may be right (sce crit. note).
17. ἥσθη τε καὶ ἀποστέλλει—the co-ordination of historic pres. and aorist is common in Thuc; cf. c. 131. 2.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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