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νέας (sc. μακράς) = triremes; cf. viii. 1. 2.

καὶ τοῦτον: for no man must hope for uninterrupted good fortune; cf. i. 30 n.

ἄχαρις συμφορὴ λυπεῦσα παιδοφόνος. Since Dionysius of Halicarnassus (iii. 21), in obvious imitation of this phrase, speaks of the victorious Horatius who slew his sister (Liv. i. 25, 26) as falling εἰς ἄχαριν συμφορὰν ἀδελφόκτονον, we may suppose that the phrase (for which cf. i. 41. 1) refers darkly to the involuntary murder of his son (so Plut. de Mal. Her. 30, Mor. 864 C).

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