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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. 1908 Excerpt:...Whether it was justified or not must remain uncertain.--os... KaTCKp4)Lvurt: the offense restated in justification of the punishment.--dp£duvos: apxeiv means to be the first to do something, apxecrOai to do something which has not been done before. S. 1734, 5; HA. 816, 4; Gl. 500 b. Hence ap$dpvos does not imply that the Spartans had followed, or were about to follow, the Athenian example. Chapter 2, §§ 1-4. Byzantium and Calchedon yield to Lysander. The receipt at Athens of the news of Aegospotami. 1. rd Iv AaMrdKj Ko-tco-h)raTo: the reference is to the establishment of an oligarchical decarchy under a Spartan harmost. Cp. §§ 2 and s below and 3. 4. 2; also Plut. Lys. 13.--KaXi86va: in 408 B.C. this city was in the hands of the Spartans (1. 3. 8 f.). Since then it must have been captured by the Athenians. Cp. Introd. p. 27.--ol irpoBovTcs: three years before. See I. 3. 16-20.--'A8ivotoi: i.e. Athenian citizens. 2. «itivo: render as equiva lent to ovTtva.--elSois 8ti... «rcr6ai: a blending of two constructions, viz. (1) on with a finite verb and (2) the ind. disc, inf. An anacoluthon (Introd. IV. K) of this sort is especially frequent when on and the inf. are separated by an intervening clause (here oo-u... Iletpaia). Other cases in the Hell, are 3. 4. 27, 5. 4. 35, 6. 5. 42. The present instance is particularly noteworthy because t&nax is regularly followed by the participle or a on clause, not by the ind. disc. inf.--&ria av irXttovs... Oottov: the more... the more quickly. With 8S.TTOV sc. Toctovtw.--Bu£avT(ov Kox KaXxSSvos: the possession of these two cities closed the Bos Kti.: when Melos surrendered to the Athenians in 416 B.C., all the men who were taken were put to death and the women and children sold...