Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7

2. περί τε Πελοπόννησον: τε, which is found only in Vat., is necessary in opp. to καὶ τὸν Δημοσθένην in 6. On the contrary, the isolated τε in 5, after Ἀργείων, is inadmissible.

Χαρικλέα: later, one of the Thirty, acc. to Xen. Hell. ii.3.2.—ἔστειλαν: they dispatched (aor.). He set out immediately, but was detained in Argos attending to the duty assigned him.

παρακαλεῖν: usual term for a summons for military aid. Cf. ii.96.8; v.6.18.

7. ἀπέστελλον: they were preparing to send; impf., as from the extent of the preparations delay was to be expected, and, indeed, is mentioned in 14 and c. 26. 1 ff.

ἐκ καταλόγου: to be connected with ὁπλίταις. See on c. 16. 7.

ὅσοις...χρήσασθαι : “as many as they could possibly get into their service.” χρήσασθαι (aor.) = convertere in usum. GMT. 19, N. 1; H. 841. Cf. i.6.14.

τῶν ὑπηκόων: i.e. those who furnished neither troops, nor ships in natura. Cf. c. 57. 13; i.19.6; 99. 11.

ξυμπορίσαντες: as the simple πορίζειν (c. 18. 31)=conquirere; elsewhere in the mid. (viii.1.24: 4. 3).—εἴρητο δ̓ αὐτῷ...περιπλέοντα ξυστρατεύεσθαι : this clause after the one above (4), ᾧ εἴρητο ἀφικομένῳ παρακαλεῖν, shows quite strikingly the freedom of const. The partic. usually takes the form of the acc. with inf. when placed at any distance from a dat. belonging to leading verb. G. 138, N. 8; Kr. Spr. 55, 2, 7.

15. ὑπελείπετο: St. writes ὑπελέλειπτο acc. to c. 33. 27, εἴ τις ὑπελέλειπτο ἐξετάσαι. But in c. 33. 27 examination is to be made whether any one had purposely remained behind; here Demosthenes proposes if any person or thing had not been ready, was still behind, to wait for it. With the impf. here in the sense of continued waiting, cf. i.11.9, τοῖς ἀεὶ ὑπολειπομένοις, the pres. partic. of continued occurrence.

τὸν Χαρικλέα . . . παραλαβεῖν: Schol. ἀπὸ κοινοῦ τὸ περιέμενε. The same const. occurs after ἐπιμένειν in iii.2.7.