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29. τῶν αἰσθανομένων—intelligent men. The rendering ‘men who take notice of our actions’ does not suit the context. All Greece must ‘note’ an alliance formed by Corinth; not any special part of Greece; but ἀνθρώπων τῶν αἰσθανομένων could hardly mean τῶν Ἑλλήνων here. Those who look below the surfaee of things will not eondemn Corinth. αἰσθάνομαι is abs., as in 5.26 αἰσθανόμενος τῇ ἡλικίᾳ. That this limitation of ἀνθρώπων does not stand in the same relation to the noun as τῶν ὁρκίων stands to θεῶν is not a valid objection in Thuc.
1. ἐρημίαν—isolation.
ἄλλοις—in quest of an alliance.
2. οἷς ἂν ξυνομόσωσι — the parties to a ξυμμαχία have ‘the same friends and enemies’: hence the point.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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