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15. ἐν τῇ πόλει—at Athens.
18. Φορμίωνα—the celebrated admiral.
20. Ἀφύτιος—Ionic gen. of Ἄφυτις: cf.e.g. Τήρης Τήρεω 2.29.
23. ἀπετείχισε τὸ ... τεῖχος—the bracketing of τεῖχος makes the sense ‘walled it off on the south side’; cf. τὸ δ᾽ ἐς τὴν Παλλήνην above 64.1 (where, however, τεῖχος may be supplied). But ‘walled off the south wall’ may very well be the meaning as above in l. 8. Classen retains τεῖχος here and renders ‘built across the south line of circum vallation.’ This is scarcely the meaning of ἀποτειχίζω.
26. ναυσὶν ἄμα ἐφ.—with a fleet blockading it.
1. ξυνεβούλευε ... ἤθελε ... ἔπειθε — like ἐκέλευε: such words being often used in imperf. when a speaker is giving advice.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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