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NOTES. 14711,8. 'A0Tiva{o\«—this view of Athenian character is thatof Thuc. himself. He began the description of it in the firstspeech of the Corinthian envoy at Sparta (l 70) and completesit in the Funeral Oration (c. 36 foL). irX^ov -n—cf. III.45, 6, 69, 2 ; IV. 78, 5 ; v. 39, 2 ; VI. 90, 1 ; VII. 31, 4,49, 4. For Ti with comparative, see 3 above. fidWcv ti iscommoner in this sense. t»v AXXuv—often (Tipuv in thisidiom. €Ik6s— decet, with aorist infinitive, as regularly(sometimes present, c. lO, 1). Rutherford, Syntax, p. 128.The argument is now drawn from rd eUlK. An orator naturallyemploys this topic to prove something in the past, but Thuc.to forecast the future. Index s.v. rbtroi. tovto Spdo-ai—theregular phrase for referring to an action just described. Cf.c. 49, 5 ; I. 6, 2, 6, 5. Of course Thuc. refers to the actualindignation of the Athenians at seeing their land ravaged.See c. ai, 2. It was a source of great pride that the beautifulcountry of Attica had never been plundered tX^jj- ra M7;5iird.Cf. Eur. Me,d. 826—the play was produced this very yearwhere the Athenians are addressed as lepas X