Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXVI. But this was a mere catchword for the multitude, as the authors of the revolution were really to govern. However, the Assembly and the Council of the Bean still met notwithstanding, although they discussed nothing that was not approved of by the conspirators, who both supplied the speakers, and reviewed in advance what they were to say. [2] Fear, and the sight of the numbers of the conspirators, closed the mouths of the rest; or if any ventured to rise in opposition, he was presently put to death in some convenient way, and there was neither search for the murderers nor justice to be had against them if suspected; but the people remained motionless, being so thoroughly cowed that men thought themselves lucky to escape violence, even when they held their tongues. [3] An exaggerated belief in the numbers of the conspirators also demoralised the people, rendered helpless by the magnitude of the city, and by their want of intelligence with each other, and being without means of finding out what those numbers really were. [4] For the same reason it was impossible for any one to open his grief to a neighbour and to concert measures to defend himself, as he would have had to speak either to one whom he did not know, or whom he knew but did not trust. [5] Indeed all the popular party approached each other with suspicion, each thinking his neighbour concerned in what was going on, the conspirators having in their ranks persons whom no one could ever have believed capable of joining an oligarchy; and these it was who made the many so suspicious, and so helped to procure impunity for the few, by confirming the commons in their mistrust of one another.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 66 (general note)
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: ên de touto euprepes k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: epei hexein ge
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: mentoi
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: hê apo tou kuamou
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: ebouleuonto
book 8, chapter 66, section 1: prouskepto
book 8, chapter 66, section 2: antelege te oudeis . . . dediôs k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 66, section 2: ei tis kai anteipoi
book 8, chapter 66, section 2: etethnêkei
book 8, chapter 66, section 2: dikaiôsis
book 8, chapter 66, section 3: pleon ê hoson etunchanen on
book 8, chapter 66, section 3: kai exeurein autoi adunatoi ontes . . . exairein
book 8, chapter 66, section 3: tên allêlôn agnôsian
book 8, chapter 66, section 4: hôste amunasthai epibouleusanta
book 8, chapter 66, section 4: ê agnôta an hêuren, hôi erei, k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 66, section 4: hêuren an
book 8, chapter 66, section 4: hôi erei
book 8, chapter 66, section 5: hôs metechonta tina
book 8, chapter 66, section 5: houtoi
book 8, chapter 66, section 5: bebaion tên apistian tôi dêmôi pros heauton katastêsantes

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
2340 [Sixth Form of Conditions: PAST GENERAL CONDITIONS]: ei de tis kai anteipoi, euthus . . . etethnêkei

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
347 [a) Singularform.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
575b [IIIb. Ei mit dem iterativen Optative.]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 7, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7:
7, 71, 5

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 69, 4
8, 71, 1
8, 74, 3
8, 87, 5

Cross references from Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Overview of Greek Syntax:
imperf [Imperfect]: ei de tis kai anteipoi, euthus . . . etethnêkei
ind [Indicative]: ei de tis kai anteipoi, euthus . . . etethnêkei
opt [Optative]: ei de tis kai anteipoi, euthus . . . etethnêkei

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
peloponnesian-war [Peloponnesian War]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
462 [II. Present and Past General Suppositions.]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos:
1, 4 [The Revolution.]

Cross references from Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1:
1, 73 [Speech of the Athenian envoys. Chaps. 73-78.]

This text is based on the following book(s):
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.