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7. ἐκ—cf. πρός, which might have been used here, c. 62. 1.
8. τεῖχος—this is deleted by Classen and others; but the sense is ‘they cut off (from communication with the north) the northern wall’—of course by building a wall farther north. See below 64.3. ἐφρούρουν is intrans.
10. ἀτείχιστον—not ‘unfortified,’ which is not true (see c. 56. 2), but ‘not walled off,’ ‘not isolated’ from the south.
13. διαβάντες—by sea.
14. γενομένοις—the aor., though weakly supported, is necessary, ‘if they should have divided’ being clearly the sense. In 6.100 we have correctly φοβούμενοι μὴ σφίσι δίχα γιγνομένοις ῥᾷον μάχωνται, because there the sense is ‘if they made a practice of.’
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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