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ἐς πᾶν κακοῦ ἀπίκατο. The pluperfect here has hardly much temporal but some rhetorical force. So, too, πᾶν κακοῦ rhetorically much more effective than πᾶν κακόν, cp. 8. 52 ἐς τὸ ἔσχατον κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι, 9. 118 ἐς πᾶν ἤδη κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι ἦσαν. The genitive is, perhaps, the ‘genitive of measure,’ cp. Madvig, § 49 b, Rem. 1. οὕτω ὥστε ... ἐγίνοντο: purely indicative, narrative; cp. Index.
ὅκου Θασίοισι κτλ. Perhaps the whole passage (cc. 118-120) is an addition from the author's hand after his visit to Thasos (cp. 6. 47); Introduction, § 9. With the use of ὅκου ‘seeing that’ (relat. adv. of place, used for ‘cause’ or ‘occasion’) cp. 4. 195, c. 160 infra, etc. τῶν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ πολίων: Stryme, etc., c. 108 supra.
Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Ὀργέος: the leading citizen of Thasos in 480 B.C. and earliest bearer of a name afterwards not uncommon in the Greek world, and rendered famous by Philip's and Alexander's Makedonian friend and viceroy. The father's name may be connected with priestly or orgiastic functions in the family. Some of the coin-types of Thasos are “intimately connected with the orgiastic worship of the Thracian Bacchus,” Head, H.N. p. 227. This passage is misunderstood by Athenaios 146 to mean that Antipatros defrayed the expenses himself. Antipatros had been formally elected or appointed (ἀραιρημένος) as chief commissioner (ἐπιστάτης, or with Stein ὑποδοχεύς), and his aceounts, when audited, showed an expenditure of 400 talents.
τετελεσμένα=δεδαπανημένα (Baehr after Valckenaer). This amounted to considerably more than a year's income (6. 46), at the best of times. Thasos, which was in revolt from Athens 465-463 B.C. (Thuc. 1. 100. 2) over the question of the Thracian markets and mines, was assessed at but 3 T. from 454 B.C. to the thirty years' peace. After that doubtless the Thracian Peraia was again in Thasian hands, and the assessment stands at 30 T., a δεκατή or 10 per cent of the maximum income.
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