History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. ed. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford. 1910.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides. ed. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford. 1910.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Ἱστορίαι (Greek) (Thucydides. Historiae, Vol 1-2. Jones, Henry Stuart, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1910. (1942 printing).)
Κρεῖσσον λόγου —cf. c. 41, 3, but here = ‘not to be described.’
χαλεπωτέρως —see ἐνδεεστέρως 35, 2.
ἢ κατὰ — quam pro.
ἐδήλωσε .. ὂν —cf. v. 9 δείξω οὐ παραινέσαι οἷός τε ὤν. For the aor. cf. c. 51, 5.
ἄπτεται —cf. c. 48, 2.
ἀτύφων —see c. 52.
Τεκμήριον δέ —see c. 15, 4: only here without γὰρ fol- lowing.
ἄλλως —‘at all,’ after περὶ τοιοῦτον. περὶ τοιοῦτον — i.e. περὶ τὰ σώματα. αἴσθησιν παρεῖχον—‘gave an opportunity of observing the effect’ (on animals).
ἀποβαίνοντος —cf. c. 87, 3 ἀποβάντι, the imperf. being used here of the repeated result. In c. 11, 9 the plur was used, pres. partic. of the result as it will affect each man.