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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 edition. Excerpt:...had himself established. See on 1.6.4, and cp. 3. 4. 2 and 7. Such governments could be relied upon to support him in his ambitious schemes (see on 3. 3. 3).--aXXas... MuTiX'fviv: see on 1. 30. Mytilene is especially mentioned because it was the principal city of the island and at last accounts (1. 6. 38) was in the hands of the Athenians.--eirl ©pifKtis: as in I. 3. 17. 6.-yvwptuwv: notables, one of the various terms by which Xenophon designates the aristocratic, oligarchical faction. This faction was everywhere pro-Spartan. 7. irej.;e: sent word.--'A-yiv... AcK&ciav: see on 1. 1. 33.--o-uv SiaKoalais vavo(: cp. with the simple dat. in § 5 and see on 1. I. II.--'Apycfav: who remained faithful to their alliance with Athens. See on 1. 3. 13.--irapa-y-yetXavTos: at the command of. 8. 'AKa8t)(«t(j.: a gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens to the northward, famous in later days as the place where Plato taught. The following explanatory phrase is probably an interpolation. 9. &ir&aK... Al-yivTcus: see on § 3.--Tt)s avraiv: Jc. iraTpl80s.--irXoto: merchantmen, especially grain ships. See on 1. 1. 15 and 1. 2. 1. §§ 10-15. The besieged Athenians sue for peace, but are unwilling to accept the terms offered by the Lacedaemonians. 10. ft yA: except. The connection is not quite logical, for to suffer the pains which they had inflicted could not properly be called safety; but ovSc/iiav aioT-qplav may be understood to mean loosely ' no way out of it,' nothing for it.'--&: construe with rjSUovv as well as i-noi-quay.--ou Tiiopovuvoi: not in retaliation, with which is contrasted 81a Ttjv vfipw.--T8ckouv: = dSiKws iiroiydav, had inflicted unjustly; that is, noiKovv repeats iwolrjcrav with an added adverbial idea...