Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus, The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary

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ὧδε gives the material, or rather ideal grounds, for the move, not the physical method or means (e.g. νηυσί).

ἕως μέν is answered by ἐπεὶ δέ . .

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τιμωρήσοντα, to support, to assist; cp. 8. 169.

οἳ δέ presents a δέ in apodosi, and also with resumed subject; cp. 7. 51.

οἳ μέν: sc. οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι.

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ἐποίεον, ‘were acting, behaving in too long and leisurely a fashion’; cp. δεινότερα ἐποίεε 7. 1 supra.

ὃ δέ: sc. ὁ Πέρσης.

καὶ δή = ἤδη. Cp. Index.

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ἐλέγετο, ‘was being reported’; the evacuation of Attica might seem to have commenced as soon as Mardonios reached Chaironeia (the frontier town of Boiotia; cp. Plutarch, Kimon 1). But Mardonios may have negotiated from Thebes. In any case there is a chronological return in this c. to a point before that reached in c. 3 supra.

οὕτω δή, tum demum.

ὑπεξεκομίσαντο: cp. 8. 4 ὑπεκτιθεσθαι, 8. 41, 60 ὑπεκκέεσθαι.

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ἐς Λακεδαίμονά τε ἔπεμπον, ‘sending at the same time to L. . .’

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ἅμα μὲν ... ἅμα δέ, strictly correlative; but προεῖπαί τε follows, with a change of construction (anacoluthon): (ἔπεμπον) ἀγγέλους προεῖπαι = ἀγγελέοντας.

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περιεῖδον: cp. c. 41 infra, 7. 16 supra.

ἀλλ᾽ οὐ, ‘instead of . .’

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ὑπέσχετο must be from ὑπέχειν, ὑπέχεσθαι or ὑπίσχεσθαι, cp. ὑπίσχοντο 7. 168, though Hdt. also uses the forms from ὑπισχνέομαι as in c. 109 infra; cp. ὑπέσχε 2. 151, ὑπέχουσι 4. 72, ὑπίσχομαι 7. 104, and ὑπέσχετο 2. 28 in a somewhat different and stricter sense.

μεταβαλοῦσι, ‘if they changed sides’: predicative and conditional participle.

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ὅτι ... ὡς, “quarum altera abundat,” Baehr; cp. 3. 71. Cp. App. Crit.

ἀλεωρή: found in Homer both of an act (Il. 24. 216) and of an object (21. 57, 15. 533); and in Aristophanes in the latter sense, Wasps 615.