History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes (Translator). London. 1843.
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History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes (Translator). London. 1843.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
The History of the Grecian War (English) (Thucydides. The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Hobbes, Thomas. translator. London: John Bohn, 1843.)
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.