BOOK   IV.

1.  4.       Kal dXXai oX TrXT]pou|Jiei'ai epeXXov avrdae iyKaBoppiadpevai rdv ndXepov

ivrevBev noiqaeaBai.

Either i), as Classen suggests, at has crept in from the end of
the previous word, or 2) the ships which were being manned are
opposed to the ships which were already manned, rather obscurely
impfied in the preceding clause, at be vrjes Meaaqvqv icppovpow.

2.   I.      nplv rdv alrov ev dKp,T] etVai.

Cp. note on ii. 2. I.

3.  I.       6 pev Evpvpebcov kcu 2o(pOKXfjs qneiyovro  is rqv KipKvpav, d  be  Aqpo¬

aBivqs is rqv UvXov nphrov iKiXeve axdvras avrovs Kal Trpd|a»'Tas d Set
rdv nXovv noielaBai,

npd^avras a bel, 'after doing what was to be done.'    Either i)*

a  reference to  einov XPW^^*- "^^"^^ vaval ravrais nepl rqv UeXonovvqaov

above, 'after execudng the design, whatever it was, which De¬
mosthenes had in his mind.' The language is purposely vague.
Or 2) to be explained from the words which follow, q^iov reixi-
(eaBai rd x^pi°^) ' ^^^^^ doing what was necessary to fortify the

place.' Cp. C. 5 med. reixiaavres ol 'ABqvaloi rov ;(Q)piov rd Trpos
qneipov Kal a p.d\icrra eSei.

Is Sphacteria the island now called Sphagia, and the harbour of
Pylos the bay of Navarino, Paleokastro being identified with
Pylos itself; or are we to look for the scene of action to the
north of these places, and to assume Paleokastro to have been
Sphacteria and the lake of Osmyn Aga the harbour? in which
case Paleokastro must once have been an island, since joined to
the mainland.

Dr. Arnold first suggested the latter alternative, to which he
himself incfines, chiefly on the ground that the bay of Navarino
is too large and the entrance too wide to answer to the description
of Thucydides.    The length of the island given by Thucydides