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οἱ δὲ . . . περιγίγνονται κ.τ.λ. ‘others get into the fortification in Eretria which the Athenians held in their own hands, and so escape, as do all the ships which reach Chalcis.’ περιγίγνονται thus has οἱ for subject, and is regularly' constructed. Editors generally prefer to read οἳ δὲ, understanding καταφεύγουσι from the previous sentence. Χαλκίδα some fifteen miles farther up the channel.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 8. T.G. Tucker. London. MacMillan & Company. 1892.
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