Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 3

ἀγγέλλεται, (5)

καὶ πέμπει: parataxis, by which cause and effect are brought into close connexion, as in i. 61. 1, 2.—2.

τοὺς ἐκ τῆς πόλεως: sc. Ἀμπρακίας, as distinguished from those who after the battle were shut up in Olpae (c. 108. 14; 111. § 2). —

κατὰ τὴν πρώτην . . . ἀγγελίαν: cf. c. 105. § 4.—3.

διὰ τῶν Ἀμφιλόχων: i.e. through the hostile Amphilochian territory. Cf. c. 101. 3. —4.

ξυμμεῖξαι: as in ii. 84. 34; vii. 26. 4. For the form, see on c. 22. 4.

προλοχιοῦντας: pl. after μέρος τι. See on c. 2. 2; 79. 10; 80. 1. The word occurs also in c. 112. 22; ii. 81. 24; elsewhere prob. only in late writers.—7.

τὰ καρτερά: i.e. natural strongholds, as in c. 18. 19; ii. 100. 3.—

τῇ ἄλλῃ στρατιᾷ: dat. of means with βοηθεῖν. Cf. i. 81. 5. —8.

βοηθεῖν ἐπ̓ αὐτούς: as in i. 107. 22; 126. 22. See on c. 97. 14.