E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1

9. ἐπιπαριόντας — technical word of an army advancing on an objective. The force seems to have gone by land (ἐπιπαρόντας of the MSS. is almost certainly a blunder). Cf. Anab. III. IV. 30 κατὰ τὸ ὄρος ἐπιπαριόντες ἀφίκοντο εἰς τὰς κώμας.

[2] 14. τοὺς προτέρους—c. 57. 6.

15. Θέρμη—Thessalonica.

[3] 16. προσκαθεζόμενοι—the form does duty as aorist; cf. c. 24. 7; p. 120 l. 5.

20. παρεληλυθώς—the arrival of.

[4] 22. ἐς Βέροιαν—Beroea is in Macedonia, and seems out of the route. Herbst proposed to read περαιωθέντες ἐκεῖθεν for ἐς Βέροιαν κἀκεῖθεν. The text cannot be regarded as certain. Grote thinks another Beroea, otherwise unknown, must be meant.

ἐπὶ Στρέψαν — this well-known conjecture for ἐπιστρέψαντες suits excellently with πειράσαντες τοῦ χωρίου, which with the MSS. reading gives no sense. The exact position of Strepsa is unknown; but no objection lies in the fact that it is not mentioned by Herod. in a list of Greek cities on the Thermaic Gulf (123), as it may very well have lain outside the limits with which Herod. is dealing.