Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXXII. They also sent ten men to Samos to reassure the army, and to explain that the oligarchy was not established for the hurt of the city or the citizens, but for the salvation of the country at large; and that there were five thousand, not four hundred only, concerned; although, what with their expeditions and employments abroad, the Athenians had never yet assembled to discuss a question important enough to bring five thousand of them together. [2] The emissaries were also told what to say upon all other points, and were so sent off immediately after the establishment of the new government, which feared, as it turned out justly, that the mass of seamen would not be willing to remain under the oligarchical constitution, and, the evil beginning there, might be the means of their overthrow.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 72 (general note)
book 8, chapter 72, section 1: hoi prassontes
book 8, chapter 72, section 1: kai tên huperorion ascholian. kai
book 8, chapter 72, section 1: es ouden pragma k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 72, section 2: alla t' episteilantes k.t.l.
book 8, chapter 72, section 2: katastasin
book 8, chapter 72, section 2: mê . . . out' autos . . . sphas te
book 8, chapter 72, section 2: nautikos ochlos
book 8, chapter 72, section 2: arxamenou tou kakou

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
147 [II. Adjektive zweier Endungen.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [631-780]: menein en tôi oligarchikôi kosmôi

Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
5, 97, 2 [BOOK V]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 86, 1
8, 86, 1
8, 86, 3
8, 86, 3
8, 24, 4
8, 67, 3
8, 84, 3

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.