The Scholiast on Aristophanes' ‘Knights’, 438, and three passages of Thucydides

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Σ Ar. Eq. 438 (p. 49, col. 2, 1. 25 Dübner): Dobree's σφῶν for ἐφ' ὧν is obviously right, but ϓενέσθαι still requires emendation. We should read ϓεύεσθαι, cf. Thuc. II, 70, I: καί τινεϛ καὶ ἀλλήλων ἐγέγευντο.

Thuc. IV, 117, 2: Thucydides is here discussing the motives that both sides had for desiring a truce in 423, after the accession of Torone to Brasidas. It seems certain, though it has in the past been denied, that Λακεδαιμόνιοι is the subject of ἐποιοῦντο, and that the general sense of the passage is that the Spartans were especially keen on recovering the men taken prisoner at Sphacteria while Brasidas was still successful, because his successes put them in a strong bargaining position. The conjunction ὡς creates an initial difficulty; the meaning required is ‘while’ ‘as long as’, as the whole emphasis of the passage is temporal, and the Spartans are reflecting on factors in the situation which obtained at a particular time, ὡς cannot be synonymous with ἔως(ἔως for ὡς is now universally accepted at Soph. Ai. 1117, Phil. 1330) and we should follow Herwerden and Hude in reading ἔως from an otherwise inaccurate quotation in Σ Ar. Pax 479.