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26. ἐς ἀντιλογίαν ἦλθον—cf. εἰς λόγους ἐλθεῖν τινι.
28. εὐεργεσίας ... προυφειλομένης— ‘without having a elaim through some great serviee rendered or through a previously existing alliance.’ The meaning is simply ‘we cannot urge that we are seeking to renew an old ξυμμαχία or that we have a claim on you for services rendered.’ ‘We are not εὐεργέται of Athens’: for this see on c. 137. 4 καί μοι εὐεργεσία ὀφείλεται and c. 128. 4.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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