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28. τῶν ἔργων—without stopping to think: as Thuc. says elsewhere, at the beginning of a war, men are impulsive. ἔχονται is equivalent to ἅπτονται.
ἃ χρῆν ὕστερον δρᾶν — if ἅ is right (and the Schol. as well as all MSS. has it), we cannot render ἅ a thing which, but must make τῶν ἔργων antecedent: nor is there any objection to this except that Thuc. regularly uses δρᾶν（αὐτό or αὐτά) differently; see c. 5. 2: but δρῶ τὰ ἔργα is good Greek, e.g. συννοίᾳ θ᾽ ἅμα οἷον δέδρακεν ἔργον Eur. And. 806.
29. ἤδη—only when, with κακοπαθοῦντες.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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