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Ἐπειδὴ—resumes ἐμοὶ δ᾽ in 1 above. ἐδοκιμάσθη —properly of the preliminary test to which newly-appointed officials had to submit to prove they were qualified. Hence δεδοκιμασμένος, like spectatus, ‘tried and approved.’ The word shows Pericles has in his mind a custom rather than a law.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 2. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1891.
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