Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3

Πελοποννήσιοι καὶ οἱ ξύμμαχοι: designation for the whole Peloponnesian alliance, as in c. 26.1, 4; ii. 47. 4; 71. 1; iv. 2. 2. For Πελοποννήσιοι alone in this comprehensive sense, cf. c. 2.1, and see on ii. 13. 1.—2.

ἅμα τῷ σίτῳ ἀκμάζοντι: indicates more sharply than τοῦ σίτου ἀκμάζοντος (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.

ἡγεῖτο . . . βασιλεύς: parenthetical, as ii. 47. 6; iv. 2. 3; the relation of the other clauses also is the same as there.— 4.

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

προσβολαὶ kte(.: cf. ii. 22. 7.—

ὥσπερ εἰώθεσαν: sc. γίγνεσθαι. Cf. i. 132. 26.—

ἐγίγνοντο: pass. of ποιεῖν. H. 820. See on i. 73. 1.—6.

ὅπῃ παρείκοι: wherever opportunity offered, as Arr. Anab. vi. 9. 2. The Schol. explains, ὅπου ἐνεδέχετο καὶ ἐνεχώρει. Cf. iv. 36. 7 κατὰ τὸ αἰεὶ παρεῖκον, Plato Symp. 187e καθ̓ ὅσον παρείκει, Rep. 374e ὅσον γ᾽ ἂν δύναμις παρείκῃ, Soph. Phil. 1048 εἴ μοι παρείκοι.—τὸν πλεῖστον ὅμιλον: the main body, as opp. to the small predatory bands which kept up the devastation. ὅμιλος in this sense seems to be Ionic and poetic. See Proc. Amer. Phil. Assoc. vol. xxii. p. xix.—7.

τὸ μὴ . . . κακουργεῖν: for τὸ μή with inf. after verbs of hin dering, see GMT. 811; H. 963, 1029; Kr. Spr. 67, 12, 4; Kühn. 479, 1 and 516, N. 9 l.—

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

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

οὗ: depends on τὰ σιτία. Cf. ii. 23. 11 ὅσου εἶχον τὰ ἐπιτήδεια. G. 1085, 5; H. 729 d. See on i. 48. 2. —9.

ἀνεχώρησαν . . . κατὰ πόλεις: the same formula in c. 26. 17; ii. 78. 8; v. 83. 10.