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πολιορκεομένοισί σφι φθινόπωρον ἐπεγίνετο: the verb is passive; the persons are the men in Sestos; the autumn (Stein observes) began September 18 (early rising of Arkturos). φθινόπωρον: 4. 42; Thuc. 2. 31. 1. ἤσχαλλον: aegre ferebant, 3. 152.
τῶν στρατηγῶν. Xanthippos was not in sole command; this was perhaps the first instance of the forces of the democracy being employed through the winter and on foreign service: ‘the generals’ had perhaps a holy horror of Themistokles, who was certainly in Athens; cp. Thuc. 1. 90. 3.
πρὶν ἢ ἐξέλωσι: if conditional, ἄν might be expected; if merely temporal, the infimtive. μεταπέμψηται, ‘recall.’
οὕτω δή marks the apodosis. στέργειν: differently, c. 113 supra.
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