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NOTES. 237court. It is strange that Thnc. should go out of his way tohe must have consideredmake this remark about his reign :these improvements very important. oSovs ciOcias— cf. c08, I. Andoc. 2, 11 says that Archelaus gave him the rightto cut down and export as much timber as he chose. riXXaaccus. of respect, to. k. rbr rb'Ketior being object of SieKhafiriat.ivrit—cf. the position of f| in c. 93, 2.lOO, 3. TVjv ^iXiinrov—the upper part of the Axins.ofioXoyCt^—with rpcxTxt^poCyra) (jcarA Kparot.lOO, 4. 'ApuTTcp^—t.e.'east of Pella, as Sitalces i»'asmarching southwards.' Am. Urt*— i.e. further south.lOO, 5. 'Oirrj Soko^t)—with fV^/SaXXor, which is used here ofa cavalry charge. They charged wherever they chose, as theThracians were not disciplined. Cf. c. 79, 6.100, G. 'Yiri Sk v. vcpucXTj^fUvoi— = inrbre vxh r. rtpik\t^oivto,corresponding to ^ niv Tpocriaoitr : hence pres.partic.'Whenever (after charging) they were hemmed in bysuperior numbers, they placed themselves in danger, as theywere far outnumbered by the enemj.' vXtjOos—as in c. 11,3. iroXXairXouruu— dat. of cause.101, I. A^ovs cwoMiTo—' had a conference.' Livy wouldhave reported this conversation at length. oi voptjiravc. 95, 3. The incompetence displayed by Athens againstPerdiccas is so strange that the ambassadors sent to Sitalcesmay have been bribed : for they might easily have sent wordwhen Sitalces really did start. The muddle which followedthe death of Pericles is as great as the confusion in the Englishgovernment during the Bute ministry after the fall of Pitt in1761. Perhaps it is partly due to the same cause. d-n-OTovvTcs—Sitalces had become an ally two years before, andhis promise had been unfulfilled till now. Cf. c. 29. i**F*»|rav—' had sent.'lOl, 2. 'Ev ir. fjorav—c. 80, 3. The Thessalians and theother Greeks rightly regarded Sitalces now as a mere plunderer.lOl, 3. 6pqj(€S—the tribes living in the plains on the lowerStrymon, near Amphipolis.lOl, 4. Ilap^irxc Xo-yov—on the analogy of 4b^m> xapixfi*,as ^77 below'shows : even as far as the ... he caused questionings.'eirl—denotes distance, as in i