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ἔτυχε . . . ἐλθὼν
—with the aor. of
τυγχάνω, φθάνω, λανθάνω the aor. partic. expresses time not antecedent to, but coincident with the time of the verb. To express time antecedent to the time of these verbs, either (1) the pres. or imperf. of these verbs must be used, or (2) if the aor. is used, the perf. partic is necessary. Cf. on c.
4.3
.
κατὰ τοῦτο τοῦ καιροῦ
—cf. c.
69
ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ τοῦ καιροῦ; c.
33
ἐν τούτῳ τύχης. Cf. also the idiom
εἰς τοῦτο (
τοσοῦτο)
ἐλθεῖν (
ἀφικέσθαι, ἥκειν) with gen.;
id temporis; eo (
furoris)
venire (Phrynichus says that the noun of
time requires the art., but
no such rule was known to Attic authors, the art. being employed or omitted according to the whim of the writer or as the meaning required. Rutherford.)
ἑπτὰ . . . ἢ ὀκτὼ
—it would be about seven to the fort on the
κρημνός, about eight to the
κύκλος, as far as the building was then completed. (Those who think that the
κύκλος was further north, and that the wall between it and the
κρημνὸς was double —Classen, Holm, Lupus, Muller—are foreed to bracket
ἑπτὰ . . σταδίων, as the length of the double wall must then be considerably greater. See Intr. p. xii.)
μὲν
—answered by
τῷ δὲ ἄλλῳ. The double wall, as nearly completed, is contrasted with the northern wall, very incomplete. (Fr. Muller and Oeltze
de particularum
μέν
et
δέ
usu Halle '87 place
μὲν between
ἐς and
τὸν helow.)
σταδίων
—gen. of measure; cf.
II. 13
τὰ μακρἁ τείχη τεσσαράκοντα σταδίων. The position of the gen. is due to the antithesis, which often causes a disturbance of the natural order. See on c.
17.3
.
ἀπετετέλεστο
—on the question whether Thuc. here neglects to take account of the wall between the
κύκλος and the
κρημνος, see Intr. p. xiii.
ἐς τον . . . λιμένα
—it crossed three levels, (1) a short portion of Epipolae, (2)
τὸ ὁμαλόν, the level just below the
κρημνός, (3)
τὸ ἕλος, the marshy ground about Lysimeleia.
διπλοῦν
—
contra exteriorem etiam hostem, Jastus Lipsis. Cf. Lucian
Ver. hist.
I. 19
. Endymion the king of the moon made war on Phaethon k. of the sun, because the latter had prevented Endymion from colonising Hesperus. The Nephelocentaurs in Phaethon's service build a wall
ὥστε μηκέτι τὰς αὐγὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλἰου πρὸς τὴν σελήνην διήκειν. τὸ δὲ τεῖχος ἦν διπλοῦν, ὥστε σαφὴς ἔκλειψις τῆς σελήνης ἐγεγόνει. This produced peace.
τὸ πρὸς τὴν θ.
—epexegetic of
τι. Cf.
VIII. 21
ἐς διακοσίους τινὰς τοὺς πάντας.
τῷ δὲ ἄλλῳ (ἄνὠ τοῦ κ.
—
the remainder of the wall north of the fort; the same as
τὸ πρὸς βορέαν τοῦ κύκλου τεῖχος in
VI. 99
. Cf.
Herod. I. 72
of the course of the Halys
ῥέων ἄνω πρὸς βορέην. (So in
VI. 99
κάτωθεν τοῦ κύκλου =
south of the
κ., as Sitzler explains. Without
ἄνω there are two ways of taking the text: (1)
τῷ ἄλλῳ=
ἑτέρωθι
on the other side of, of which meaning there is no example; or (2) making
πρὸς τὸν Τρώγιλον govern
τοῦ κύκλου
for the rest of the wall on the Trogilus side of the
κ., but, from the analogy of other prepositional phrases, it is clear that even so
τοῦ κύκλου must be ‘partitive’; cf.
IV. 108.1
τὰ (
τοῦ ποταμοῦ)
πρὸς Ἠιόνα;
IV. 5
τοῦ χωρίου τὸ πρὸς ἤπειρον. This would necessitate taking
κύκλος here to mean the whole circumference of the walls, as in
II. 13
; but
κ.
must mean a central point between the two pieces of wall spoken of, as it clearly does in all the other passages—
VI. 98
,
99
,
101
,
102
.)
ἔστιν ἃ . . . τὰ δὲ
—for
τὰ μὲν . . τὰ δὲ . .
καὶ ἡμίεργα . . . καὶ ἐξειργασμένα
—the first
καὶ marks the antithesis between
τῷ πλἐονι and
ἔστιν ἄ, the second that between
ἔστιν ἃ and
τὰ δέ.
παρὰ τοσοῦτον
—cf.
VIII. 33
παρὰ τοσοῦτον ἐγένετ’ αὐτῷ μὴ περιπεσεῖν τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, and
παρὰ ἓν πάλαισμα ἔδραμε νικᾶν
Herod. 9.33
.
μὲν
—in transition, as often, like
μὲν δή,
II. 4
οἱ μὲν δὴ οὕτως ἐπεπράγεσαν. οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι ;
III. 24
.
Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7. Edgar Carew Marchant. London. 1919.
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