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Ἐπὶ μέγα ἰσχύος—cf. c. 17, 4. τῶν γὰρ—sc. βασιλειῶν. ὅσαι—cf. 3 above. εὐδαιμονίᾳ—of wealth, as beatus. Cf. Eur. Bacchae, 16 Ἀραβίαν εὐδαίμονα. πολὺ δευτέρα μετὰ—‘far inferior to.’ (Arn. trauslates ‘easily second,’ quoting Soph. O. C. 1228 μὴ φῦναι τὸν ἄπαντα νικᾷ λόγον: τὸ δὲ ... βῆναι κεῖθεν ὅθενπερ ἥκει πολὺ δεύτερον ὡς τάχιστα, but there too the δεύτερος πλοῦς is ‘far inferior’ to the πρῶτος πλοῦς.)
Commentary on Thucydides Book 2. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1891.
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