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ἐσπλέοντι—dat. of the ‘person judging,’ frequent in Thuc. The direct accus. instead of ἐς after ἐσπλεῖν is poetical, and occurs nowhere else in prose.
12. Ἰόνιον—the Adriatic.
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16. Κορίνθιος—when a city that was a colony founded a colony in turn, it was usual to choose a founder from the original mother-city.
τῶν ἀφ᾽ Ἡ. depends on Φαλίος, of the family of the Heraclidae.
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21. δύναμις—see crit. note. The gloss πόλις is, of course, due to πολυάνθρωπος. An obvious change would be δύναμις μ. καὶ <πόλις> πολυάνθρωπος, but δύναμις πολυάνθρωπος is surely a possible phrase, as δύναμις denotes military power: cf. 33. 2 αὕτη（ἡ δύναμις）πάρεστιν αὐτεπάγγελτος.
23. ἀπὸ πολέμου ... ἐφθάρησαν—in consequence of a war with ... they became crippled.
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24. τῆς δυνάμεως depends on τῆς πολλῆς, i.e. the idiom ἡ πολλὴ τῆς δ. is used.
25. τὰ δὲ τελευταῖα ... πολέμου—in the period immediately preceding this war.
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1. ἐπελθόντες—this conjecture seems required, since with ἀπελθόντες (‘the departed exiles’) we miss a circumstantial partic. to ἐλῄζοντο.
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7. περιορᾶν φθειρομένους—in c. 35. 4 περιορῶ with infin. With infin. περιορῶ occurs only in Herod. and Thuc., and =ἐῶ: with partic. (pres. or aor. with different shade of meaning)=‘look on’ with indifference.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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