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18. ἄνευ κηρυκείου—cf. c. 146. Had they sent him with a herald's wand they would have admitted a state of war, and treated the Athenians as enemies.
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21. πολέμου ἄρχοντες—acting as aggressors in war and breaking treaties: in reality the ref. is to the thirty years' treaty, but the vague expression heightens the effect.
26. λύετε—we expect λύειν. εἰ δ᾽ nearly=ἐπεὶ δέ.
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1. τῶν δὲ Κερκυραίων—this is divided into τὸ μὲν στρατό πεδον and οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι, possibly because the Athenians and Corcyreans together make up the other, or Corcyrean, side; possibly by a slight anacoluthon.
2. ὅσον—as far as they were within hearing.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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