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αὕτη ἐγένετο ... ἐν Ἀβύδῳ. This index of time is probably not worth very much; cp. c. 172 supra, where words occur which might or might not come to very much the same thing. To have occupied Tempe when the king was still in Asia, at Abydos, would have been an unnecessary providence. Moreover, it was only after the rendezvous at Doriskos (“ἐνταῦθα μετεπέμψατο τὸ ναυτικόν” Diod. 11. 3. 7) that the assurance about the king's fleet could have been conveyed to the Greeks (see previous c.). The occupation of Tempe will more probably have coincided with the king's arrival at Eion, at Akanthos, or even at Therme, than with his week's, or month's, pause at Abydos (cp. c. 56 supra). Hdt.'s synchronisms are not to be trusted; cp. c. 166.
ἐρημωθέντες συμμάχων supplies to some extent an excuse for the medism of the Thessalians, and carries on the apologetic tone with which the passage starts in c. 172.
ἐμήδισαν προθύμως οὐδ᾽ ἔτι ἐνδοιαστῶς: i.e. the Thessalians all, as a body, ad<*>pted the king's cause, the Aleuad policy. ἐνδοιαστῶς is found in Thuc. 6. 10. 5, 8. 87. 4, and the verb (ἐνδοιάζω) thrice. Homer has the neut. pl. δοιά as adv. ‘of two kinds,’ twofold: Od. 2. 46, and the subst. δοιῇ (uncertainty, donbt) Il. 9. 230 (ἐν δοιῇ); but the word here may be a trace, or reminiscence, of the Attic source from which Hdt. derived the story. ὥστε (with indic.) here gives not the intentional but the actual result: cp. 2. 120 οὕτω γε φρενοβλαβὴς ἦν . . ὥστε κινδυνεύειν ἐβούλ（ετο): 3. 12 αἱ μὲν τῶν Περσέων κεφαλαί εἰσι ἀσθενἐες οὔτω ὥστε, εἰ θέλεις ψήφῳ μούνῃ βαλεῖν, διατετρανέεις. Cp. also c. 118 supra.
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