Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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LXXV. On hearing this the first thought of the army was to fall upon the chief authors of the oligarchy and upon all the rest concerned. Eventually, however, they desisted from this idea upon the men of moderate views opposing it and warning them against ruining their cause, with the enemy close at hand and ready for battle. [2] After this Thrasybulus, son of Lycus, and Thrasyllus, the chief leaders in the revolution, now wishing in the most public manner to change the government at Samos to a democracy, bound all the soldiers by the most tremendous oaths, and those of the oligarchical party more than any, to accept a democratic government, to be united, to prosecute actively the war with the Peloponnesians, and to be enemies of the Four Hundred, and to hold no communication with them. [3] The same oath was also taken by all the Samians of full age; and the soldiers associated the Samians in all their affairs and in the fruits of their dangers, having the conviction that there was no way of escape for themselves or for them, but that success of the Four Hundred or of the enemy at Miletus must be their ruin.

Further comments from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
book 8 (general note)
book 8, chapter 75 (general note)
book 8, chapter 75, section 1: epi . . . hôrmêsan ballein
book 8, chapter 75, section 1: kai eti
book 8, chapter 75, section 1: hupo tôn dia mesou
book 8, chapter 75, section 1: mê . . . apolesôsi
book 8, chapter 75, section 2: hôrkôsan pantas . . . horkous
book 8, chapter 75, section 2: homonoêsein
book 8, chapter 75, section 2: polemioi t' esesthai
book 8, chapter 75, section 3: xunekoinôsanto

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
376 [Medialform mit passiver Bedeutung.]
411 [Doppelter Akkusativ.]
414 [Verbindung des Genetivs mit einem Substantive oder substantivierten Adjektive und Adverb.]

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 2:
2, 4, 2 [Commentary on Book 2]
2, 7, 1 [Commentary on Book 2]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 71, 2
8, 8, 1
8, 21, 1

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4:
4, 74
4, 76

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 26

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

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
Isocrates, 4, 167 [Panêgurikos]

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