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130 eOYKYAIAOY /STYrrPA^HS B.bracketed words give no additional indication of the date ofthe attempt on Plataea. Thuc. wishes to be precise here, buthe has given no definite indication of the date of the battle atPotidaea, nor was it necessary to do so. He says (1) thedecision of the allies was some 11 months before the invasion,(2) the invasion was 80 days after the attempt. All thatcould be found from firjvl g^rtfj would be the date of the battleof Potidaea. If any event were here referred to it wouldrather be the decision of the allies. ipia fjpi dpxopi^v(i>—thelast day of Anthesterion, in 4.31 April 4th. See c. 4, 2.PoiwTapxovvT€S—the 11 chiefs of the Boeotian confederacy, ofwhom Thebes elected two, the other cities one each. Tr€plirpwTov ihrvov—cf. VII. 43 aTrb irpii^rov ijirvov. When thearticle is omitted with expressions of time, a preposition isusually present, except with Tj/nipas and vvktos. See Rutherford,Syntax, p. 4. There were three watches, the firstbeginning about 10 o'clock. |vv SirXois—in later Attic,except Xenophon, crvv has only two uses : (1) the old phrasedeois, (2) in enumerating things which are thrown to-ffiv (to??)gether in a sum total ; so that ffvv is very rare with persons,and it never implies a willing connection. Andoc. ii. 7 rbvirar^pa ai)v ifj.avr(^ aTTOKTetvai. Of (1) Thuc. has 1 example, il.86 ; of (2) 11 examples, e.g. (a) with things—c. 13, 77, ; v.26 ^vv Tw irpdiTifi TToX^fiip rocravTa ^rrj. Cf. VII. 42 ; VIII. 90,©5 : (b) with persons, comparatively common in Thuc, i. 12;II. 6, 13 ; IV. 124 ; V. 74. Besides these, Thuc. has the oldmilitary phrase, ^iii> (rdis) SttXoij, 8 times. Cf. Eur. Hec. 112.Aristoph. Ntih. 560. In the same class fall ^tv ivl Ip-arit^, ii.70, i/'iXoi ^vv ^KjiiSii^ and ^vv Soparlon ill. 22. Cf. the Homericffvv Te^xeiTi. Further, 6 cases of verbal nouns which modifythe meaning of a verb, viz. : ^^v iircdvi^ i^orpiveiv i. 84, ^irvKaT-qyoplg. wapo^iueiv ib., ^vv xf^XeTr&rrjTi TraideikaOai ib., ^iiv