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5. τῶν λεγόντων=(τόδε）τῶν λεγόντων, so that the ὡς clause governs τῶν λεγοντων, cf. c. 52. 3. The gen. is often similarly used with θαυμάζω.
6. τῶν ... διαφόρων—private interests, i e. the interests of their city apart from the interests of the Pel. confederacy. ἰδίᾳ does not mean individual here. For such complaints to Sparta see c. 90, and for the negligence of Sparta see c. 118. 2.
7. πάσχειν—we begin to ...
9. ἐν οἷς—(1) some render, ‘before whom’; cf. e.g. c. 85; (2) others, after Classen, with οὐχ ἥκιστα, and we among them have the best right, as in viii. 68 ἐν τοῖς ξυγκαταλύουσι ... πρῶτος ἦν. The latter suits the passage better.
10. ὅσῳ—inasmuch as; the καί balances μέγιστα with οὐχ ἥκιστα. We should render ‘inasmuch as ... , we have also the greatest right.’
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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