Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXIX. The assembly ratified the proposed constitution, without a single opposing voice, and was then dissolved; after which the Four Hundred were brought into the council chamber in the following way. On account of the enemy at Decelea, all the Athenians were constantly on the wall or in the ranks at the various military posts. [2] On that day the persons not in the secret were allowed to go home as usual, while orders were given to the accomplices of the conspirators to hang about, without making any demonstration, at some little distance from the posts, and in case of any opposition to what was being done, to seize the arms and put it down. [3] There were also some Andrians and Tenians, three hundred Carystians, and some of the settlers in Aegina come with their own arms for this very purpose, who had received similar instructions. [4] These dispositions completed, the Four Hundred went, each with a dagger concealed about his person, accompanied by one hundred and twenty Hellenic youths, whom they employed wherever violence was needed, and appeared before the Councillors of the Bean in the council chamber, and told them to take their pay and be gone; themselves bringing it for the whole of the residue of their term of office, and giving it to them as they went out.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 69: alla
book 8, chapter 69: êdê husteron
book 8, chapter 69: êsan d'
book 8, chapter 69: eph hoplois
book 8, chapter 69, section 2: apelthein
book 8, chapter 69, section 3: Andrioi kai Tênioi k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 69, section 3: tôn epoikôn
book 8, chapter 69, section 4: hoi eikosi kai hekaton
book 8, chapter 69, section 4: Hellênes
book 8, chapter 69, section 4: tois apo tou kuamou
book 8, chapter 69, section 4: ton misthon
book 8, chapter 69, section 4: epheron de k.t.l.

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
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Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 92, 6
8, 69
8, 92, 3
8, 66, 1
8, 92, 6

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 89

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

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