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    Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3

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    Commentary on Thucydides, Histories. book 3, chapter 1.

    [p. 1] FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR. Chaps. 1-25.

    I. Third Peloponnesian Invasion of Attica.

    Peloponnêsioi kai hoi xummachoi: designation for the whole Peloponnesian alliance, as in c. 26.1, 4; ii. 47. 4; 71. 1; iv. 2. 2. For Peloponnêsioi alone in this comprehensive sense, cf. c. 2.1, and see on ii. 13. 1.--2.

    hama tôi sitôi akmazonti: indicates more sharply than tou sitou akmazontos (ii. 19. 5; 79. 4) the beginning of the ripening of the corn. For the pred. partic., see Kr. Spr. 50, 11, 13. See App. on ii. 4. 11 (Steup).--3.

    hêgeito . . . basileus: parenthetical, as ii. 47. 6; iv. 2. 3; the relation of the other clauses also is the same as there.-- 4.

    enkathezomenoi: here, as in iv. 2. 4, indicates more clearly than kathezomenoi (ii. 47. 7) a definite place from which raids were made.--5.

    prosbolai kte(.: cf. ii. 22. 7.--

    hôsper eiôthesan: sc. gignesthai. Cf. i. 132. 26.--

    egignonto: pass. of poiein. H. 820. See on i. 73. 1.--6.

    hopêi pareikoi: wherever opportunity offered, as Arr. Anab. vi. 9. 2. The Schol. explains, hopou enedecheto kai enechôrei. Cf. iv. 36. 7 kata to aiei pareikon, Plato Symp. 187e kath hoson pareikei, Rep. 374e hoson g' an dunamis pareikêi, Soph. Phil. 1048 ei moi pareikoi.--ton pleiston homilon: the main body, as opp. to the small predatory bands which kept up the devastation. homilos in this sense seems to be Ionic and poetic. See Proc. Amer. Phil. Assoc. vol. xxii. p. xix.--7.

    to mê . . . kakourgein: for to mê with inf. after verbs of hin [p. 2] dering, see GMT. 811; H. 963, 1029; Kr. Spr. 67, 12, 4; Kühn. 479, 1 and 516, N. 9 l.--

    tôn hoplôn: camping places, as in i. 111. 6; vi. 64. 20; vii. 28. 8.

    emmeinantes: aor. partic., as in ii. 23. 10; viii. 31. 16. See App. on ii. 19. 14.--

    hou: depends on ta sitia. Cf. ii. 23. 11 hosou eichon ta epitêdeia. G. 1085, 5; H. 729 d. See on i. 48. 2. --9.

    anechôrêsan . . . kata poleis: the same formula in c. 26. 17; ii. 78. 8; v. 83. 10.



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    Commentary on Thucydides Book 3 Edited on the basis of the Classen-Steup Edition. Charles F. Smith. Boston. Ginn & Company. 1894.


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