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174 0OYKYAIAOY SYTTPA^WZ B.sense. Shil. quotes [Arist.] Eth. Vl. 1 oUre -rrXelu} oUre iXdrrutrovdv oidi pq-Ovfieiv. iTiJvwv—this word had great significanceto the Spartans and Thebans, denoting the ' trainingwhich they thought so necessary to success. It is constantlyused by Pindar, who holds that ir6vos and bairavi) ('outlay')together win victory in the games. Observe the irapovofiaaiain irdvuv, vbixujv, Tp6iruv. \i.tTa. ... dvSpctas—the Spartanmanliness is the result of military rules, the Athenian of habitformed through our mode of life, dvdpeias belongs to bothgens., and vbfiwv a,v5pda^, rpdiruv a. form a chiasmus with padvfdq.,ir6v(i)u /i. cOcXoficv— 'omnes recentioris aetatis proidi\oi/j,€v scripserunt idiXo/nev.' Wichmann. Sta. thinks thatDion. Hal. really wrote the indie, and that this, like otherpassages he quotes from Thuc, has been altered by Byzantinescribes in his text. The critics corrected ' ' Dionysius fromtheir mss. of Thuc. irtpiylyvtrai—Dion. Hal. says Thuc.ought to have written vepiia-rai, because idiXu points to thefut., but there is no reference to time at all here, and if therewere the pres. yiyvo/xat can apply to the fut. Trans. we ' arethe gainers.' Tois |i^XXovo-iv d.—it is a question whetherthe dat. is causal, through coming ' troubles, ' or dat. comviodi' for the sake of.' Probably it is causal. is avra—rd d\7et;'d when ' face to face with trouble. ' The (cat is paratactic'while,' and the verb, Trepiyiyverai, is gradually lost sight ofuntil we reach iv dXXots, which belongs rather to what followsThis is a good example of Thuc. 's ttoXijvovs ^paxvXoyia. aro\|j,OT^povs . . .

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