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.)
καὶ ὅτι —instead of καὶ ἐκ Συρακουσῶν ὁ)τι.
αὖθις —as before from Catana to Syr., so now from Syr. to Camarina.
σχόντες —Livy's tenere.
αἰγιαλός is Ionic.
τὰ ὅρκια —probably the reference is to the treaty of Gela arranged by Hermocrates in 424. Camarina became an ally of Syracuse.
μιᾷ νηί —so that there could be no possibility of hostile action.
κατά τι —some point in Syr. land.
ἱππέων —the difficulty that Nicias had expected.