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134 eOYKYAIAOY ^sfYrrPA^HS B.XfOois Kal K(pd|X(t>—no doubt the slaves had gathered thestones, while the women removed the tiles. For Kipa/j.oi collective,cf. III. 74, 1 ; IV. 48, 2. So ?7ra\|is c. 13, KoXafiosc. 76. Xen. Mem. ill. 1, 7 \idoi Kai irXlfdoi Kal ^>j\a Kal Kipafwi.8id vvkt6s—cf. 5t(i7ravT6sc. 16. iroXXov — predicatewith iiriyevofi^vov. Cf. VII. 87 al vijkt€$ eTrtyiyvdfxevai. /xeToirupivalKal \pvxpaL liriYtvoa^vov—expresses any sudden orunexpected phenomenon. Cf. c. 64, 1, 70, 1, 77, 5. Theother meaning occurs in 4 below. ol irXcCovs—the subjectis here limited by apposition from all to the majority. Cf. i.2, 6 01 iKirliTTOvTei ... oi SwaTdrraToi. So in Latin, Livy xxi.24, 2 Gain ... aliquot poptdi. iTr\\^—so that progress wasimpeded. Cf. c. 6, 2. This shows that the streets of Plataeawere bad, like Greek streets generally. On the outskirts ofthe town the soil was certainly soft, and the Thebans fled inthe direction of the valley of the Asopus, so that the furtherthey went, the worse the road became. Probably in wetweather the streets of the town resembled water-coursescarrying down the water from Cithaeron to the Asopus.T«v 8i($o(i>v—belongs like § XPV \P'h—"'• to Aireipoi 6vT€i. §takes the place of a deliberative subj. (why?). Cf. i. ©1, 1ovK etxov Sttwj xph diriffTTJirai. Kal Yotp—explains only ivffKdrip, irrjXw being already explained in verov &fia. rtktvr&v-Tos Tov ^T]vbs —there was a new moon on the early morning ofthe 7th April 431, and, as the Attic months were lunar,assuming the calendar to have been in perfect order (it musthave been in fair order), the month Elaphebolion began atsunset on the 6th April. The attempt was made at the endof Anthesterion, on the night of April 4th or 5th. When thecalendar month did not correspond with the true lunar month,the true day of the new moon was called vovfirjvla Kara