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ἐπελπίζων, ‘hoping besides’ Cf. ἐπιθεραπεύων, c. 47, § 1. The verb has a causal sense in c. 1, § 1, but one similar to this in Eur. Hipp. 1011. καὶ is to be expressed by emphasis on the verb ‘that they could change.’ μεταβαλεῖται The subject is perhaps ὁ δῆμος, though Dukas says ἡ ὀλιγαρχία δηλονότι. Cf. μεταθέσθαι, c. 53, § 3; μεταβαλλομένους, c. 90, § 1; i. 71, etc. A people is said μεταβάλλειν τὸ ἔθος (i. 123) or τὴν πολιτείαν (Aristot. Pol. iv. 5, 2), or, without the object, μεταβάλλεσθαι.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 8. T.G. Tucker. London. MacMillan & Company. 1892.
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