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ναῦς μὲν ὀλίγας . . . τὴν μέντοι ‘though . . yet . . .’. βραχείας κ.τ.λ. = ‘gave them but a short distance to cover before reaching shelter.’
τὰ κατὰ βραχὺ σφάλματα ‘their slight reverses in detail,’ lit. ‘which had happened a little at a time,’ viz. in c. 42, § 4, at Syme; in c. 95, § 7, at Eretria; and in c. 102, § 2, at Elaius.
οὗ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα presumably the same as the Ἑκάβης μνημεῖον, Diod. xiii. 40.
ἀνέλπιστον note the position: ‘never having expected to hear of this good fortune.’ ἐπί τε ταῖς . . . ἐπερρώσθησαν, καὶ ἐνόμισαν . . . δυνατὰ not impersonal, but in agreement with τὰ πράγματα. Cf. iii. 86, εἰ σφίσι δυνατὰ εἴη τὰ ἐν τῇ Σικελίᾳ πράγματα ὑποχείρια γενέσθαι.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 8. T.G. Tucker. London. MacMillan & Company. 1892.
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