2. οὕτως ὑπῆρχεν ἔχοντα, i.e. this is what we had to depend on. 9. οὐ προλέγων...βουλευόμενος: two important advantages of a despotism in war. Athens is not the last free state which has suffered from the opposite evils. With this whole passage compare § 249 and 1. 4.
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