Thucydides Translated Into English Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...ai iruirai Spa iylyvovro iv iv Gipti 8taKO7tai Kal ireKTKorra... To piv oiv xpvfttTa ovras vrravaXwdr) To irpuTOi', Kal vrjcs To&avrai hf) irXeiOTai itirjpi6r(Tav. Thucydides here says that at this time the Athenians had the greatest number of ships 'effective by their fine condition, ' ivtpyoi KtiXXfi, 'which they ever had.' But to avoid misunderstanding he adds that they had about as many or even more at the beginning of the war, that is to say in mere numbers, not 'effective by their fine condition.' (Cp. vi. 31 init. irapaaK(vr) yap auTij... jroXurfXcoraTij 87 Kal tinrptirfOTarr) T v is ixtivop rbv %p6vov iyivtro, apidpot hi vtZov Km Oitits)v Ko i) is 'Eirihavpov pira Htpiiikiovs... Ovk Tkaao-ov rjv.) He IS thus led on to speak generally of the resources and expenditure of Athens at the beginning of the war. neZo-rai at the end of the chapter refers to the number of ships employed in the first year (to wpuTov), not in the fourth. iv rots irXuorat is equivalent to rrXeio-rai. The expression i) may arise out of a combination of nKtiarai and iv Tois itkclo-rois: or 2) there may have been originally an ellipse of the participle, iv Toir yfvopivots TrAfloTai iyivovro. Cp. viii. 68 fin. quoted below. Or 3) iv rots may be simply the demonstrative article, as in the wellknown use of To hi (to 8' rjv Spa, etc.). The confusion of genders must be explained by supposing that, the whole expression being considered as one word, the gender of the article or pronoun is lost sight of. For the neglect of the concord cp. Zmv ot. This and similar forms are generally periphrases for the superlative, but they may have either an intensive or a qualifying sense according to the context. Cp. vii. 24 med. piyio-rov Si tat iv 17- I. Tois irptJTOi' (Kattatae To orpare...