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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt:...The historians give a somewhat different account of the affair. See Herodotus, VIII. 42. 6. λίγoντα, in speaking. The participle agrees with the accusative subject of διατρίβών. 8. ταϋτα δ'. Werfer, cited by Bremi, observes of the particle δ(, used as it is here, that, if a period precedes, to which, in what follows, another is opposed in such a way that the protasis and apodosis of the latter may refer by antithesis to the protasis and apodosis of the former, μίν is used in the former, and δi both in the protasis and apodosis of the latter. Μίν, however, sometimes appears but once, while δi is repeated, as in this passage. See G. Bem, after § 64, n. 2. 10-12. μίν.... oiδds δi. Upon the relation of the particles μίν and δi in this place, Spohn remarks: "Orator, verborum concinnitati et numerorum suavitati indulgens, paullulum recessit a recta via, sive verius obscuriorem reddidit nexum. Sensus hie est: Urbs plures quidem instruxit naves ad pugnam quam reliqui socii; inde autem patet eam salutis nostrae esse causam. Posterius vero membrum ornatu in oratorio variatum est." 14, 15. κρατησαι, γ(νίσθαι, G. § 23, 2. 19. Tois κoινοU των αγωνων (partitive gen.), the common conflicts; conflicts in which the common welfare of Greece was at stake. 24, 25. των κακων.... μ(ρos μ(τασχόντα. Words signifying to participate usually...