History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. London. 1919-1923.
Funding provided by National Endownment for the Humanities.
History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. London. 1919-1923.
Funding provided by National Endownment for the Humanities.
History of the Peloponnesian War (English) (Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.)
History of the Peloponnesian War
μέρος ]—Intr. p. xliii.
κατὰ πόλεις — ‘dividing the space among the different contingents.’
ἐντὸς — i.e. between the circumvallation and the city wall) ( ἔξωθεν .
πλῆθος τὸ ἄ. —c. 2, 2.
ἄχρηστον —c. 6, 4. Here οἱ ἄχρηστοι, the general term is distinguished from οἱ πρεσβύτατοι, the particular, and means those whose incapacity was due to other causes than age.
ἐγκαταλελειμμένοι
—c.
6,
4. Plat.
Phaedo, p. 91 C
ὥσπερ μἐλιττα τὸ κέντρον ἐγκαταλιπών.
σιτοποιοί—pred; so in Lat.,
Livy, XXI. 30, 8
τ. οἱ ξύμπαντες —cf. ὁ πᾶς ἀριθμός c. 7, 2.
τοιαύτη —pred., with κατεσκευάσθη = τοιαύτη ἦν ἡ τῆς πολιορκίας κατασκευή, these were the arrangements.