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18. εἰ καὶ δι᾽ ὄχλου μᾶλλον ἔσται αἰεὶ προβαλλομένοις— ‘even if it will prove an annoyance to you to have them continually brought before you.’ προβαλλομένοις, sc. ὑμῖν, is personal pass., cf. c. 126. 11; 140. 1; the act. would be προβάλλομεν ταῦτα ὑμῖν. (To supply ἡμῖν, as many edd. do, produces a sense inconsistent with what follows, esp. τοῦ δὲ λόγου μὴ παντὸς στερισκώμεθα. There is no need to read προβαλλόμενα with Classen; and to place the comma after ἔσται, as I formerly proposed to do, is no improvement.)
21. ἐκινδυνεύετο—impersonal. ‘It was to help the cause that we faced danger’—it was not φιλονικία (νίκη) that prompted us. ἐπ᾽ ὠφελίᾳ is intentionally vague, because the speaker is to emphasise the share that the Peloponnesians received; cf. c. 74. 3.
τοῦ ἔργου—the reality) (τοῦ λόγου the mention of it, ‘reference to it,’ when such reference is opportune for us.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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