This text is part of:
116.
21. ταῖς μὲν ἑκ.—for the article cf. c. 10. 2.
24. τῶν Φοινισσῶν νεῶν—i.e. the Persian fleet that Pissuthnes might be expected to employ.
αἱ δ᾽ ἐπὶ Χίου—Sophocles the poet was στρατηγός of this sqnadron. See Jebb's Intr. to the Antigone.
25. περιαγγέλλουσαι βοηθεῖν—calling for the contingents they were entitled to. Chios and Lesbos were not entirely to he depended upon.
[2]
6. κρατοῦντες—being superior.
τρισὶ τείχεσι—intended to blockade the town on the three sides that did not face the sea. Why they built three separate walls is not explained.
[3]
10. ἐσαγγελθέντων—cf. δηλωθέντος c 74. 1, and for the plur. c. 7. 1.
ἐπ᾽ αὐτούς—i.e τοὺς Ἀθηναίους.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.