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NOTES. 195ram-axMfi' h r6 -ffiri 7)Si/ KtpiaKiov ffv, 'or contributed to thepleasure of the moment, regardless of the source from whichit was obtained,' i.e. men did not care how disgraceful werethe means by which they strove to gratify their immediatedesires. The sanctity of oaths and contracts was no longerrespected ; for the sake of gain fraud and crime became coX^Kol xpV'MO"! ^^d what was gained was immediately squandered.iravTax^€v—cf. Intr. p. xl. : all means, good or bad, werealike to them. tovto—cf. c. 51, 2. KoXJtv— Ist Cor. 15,32 dyufui> Kal xiufiev' aCpiov yap diroBpiqKrKOfjiev. (Thuc. doesnot say they really thought these base things KaXdif : it wasnot rb 56^v KoXbv that changed, but t6 KaOfff-njKbi xaXdv. Thepublic standard of morality is a very different thing from whateach man in his heart thinks moral.)63, 4. Th piv—' on the one hand,' answered by S^, insteadof rb St. KplvovTts—anacoluthon, as though the precedingclause had been pass. = inr' ovSevis y6/u>v ireipyovro. Such aslight irregularity is not uncommon in Thuc. and tragedy,as Eur. Hec. 971 aiddn fi' ?x"••• rvyxdvovaa. Cf. III. 86 Wo^avTMs ... eTTiKaXovfTfi. (Shil. quotes rv. 108, as a 'still bolderanacoluthon.' But the cases are almost certainly wrong there.As elwdbrfs k.t.\. is clearly general, prob. the gen. abs. shouldbe read.) iv opioup—cf. c. 49, 5, 61 iy tat^ biKaiovv, 60 iv Xatf(irrl). Kal p.^—sc. (ri^tiv. ^irCjwv— cf. c. 11, 6; had aplur. been nearer and oWeis not so near, Thuc. would havewritten iXiri^ovTes, as wi. 38, 3. F^XP*- '•'o^— ^o ^- '3. 4-Pu>vs iv—the hv belongs also to 6.»Tibovvai, = ^liLfai iv koIdiTidovvai. TV{ipiav— with rCiv afiaprrifidTUP . The art. anddpTidovvai shows that they sinned well knowing that retributionawaited them if they lived. With the general description, cf.St. Matthew, xxiv. 12, where Christ speaks of the destmctionof Jerusalem, dih rb TrXridvvdTJvai ttjv dyofuav ypvyf^otTox ri ayariitQiv TToXKOiv. iroXv 84—sc. yoni^omei, and for the interchangeof words of saying and thinking which have to be suppliedfrom the context, cf. c. 13. Kar€i^i\^\.a-\Uvi\v—sc. Ttfiupitw,i.e. vbaov. 4\v ... civoi—cf. c. 18, 5, 24, 2, lOa, 5. flx^s—c. lO, 1.54, 1. ToiovTu yjkv—the description is now concluded, thefollowing particulars being added as an afterthought (a) toillustrate the superstition rife at the time, (h) to indicate thelocale of the plague. ircpiirco-ovTcs—cf. c. 59, 2. and thephrase, (TVfxop^ vepiretjelv, constantly occurring in the orators.54, 2. 'Ev— 'during,' though KaKbv is not temporal. Cf. c.63, 1. ola €Iks eUbt viii. 2, 3. {irovs—'verse,' 41, 4. ol irp«rPvTcpoi,— limiting apposition. Cf.4, 2, 11, 1, 16, 1, ai, 3. 48«r««u—c 8, 2, 21, a