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λέγει ὅτι...εὑρήσεσθαι ‘He says that, if they appoint him envoy with plenary powers to treat for peace, he will effect a peace (ποιήσειν, sc. εἰρήνην) on such terms (ὥστε) that no breach shall be made in the walls, and that Athens shall suffer no detriment whatever: and “I think”, he added, “that I shall even obtain some further advantage for the city from the Lacedaemonians”.’ ποιεῖν εἰρήνην, Xen. Cyr. III. 2. 12. — ποιήσειν ὥστε might (less well) be taken as=‘to effect that’ no breach shall be made: cp. Isocr. Adv. Soph. § 1, πεποιήκασιν ὥστε δοκεῖν, κ.τ.λ. For ποιήσειν instead of ποιήσει (or -οι) after ὅτι, cp. Xen. Cyr. II. 4. 15, ἀκούω ὅτι...γενέσθαι (for ἐγένοντο). — οἴοιτο depending on ὅτι: he said οἴομαι: cp. Soph. Phil. 617. — The subject to διελεῖν, ἐλαττῶσαι is not τοὺς Λακεδ. understood, but αὐτόν, Theramenes.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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