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10. ἐπ᾽ ἔχθρᾳ τὸ πλέον ἢ αἰτίᾳ—to show our enmity, but rather to complain.
12. φίλων. ἐχθρῶν—objective. αἰτία in this second sentence=τὸ ἐπ᾽ αἰτίᾳ λέγειν, but ἔχθρα is not equivalent to τὸ ἐπ᾽ ἔχθρᾳ λέγειν, so Thuc. substitutes κατηγορία, which is. The habit of defining terms, common in Thuc., is, as Croiset remarks here, derived from Prodicus of Ceos, who gives a well-known specimen of his skill in this line in the Protagoras. Demosth. imitates this passage, Androt. 22.
ἁμαρτανόντων—milder than ἁμαρτόντων.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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