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Tov 8' imyiyvopivov Bipovs, al pev iviavaioi anovbal SieXeXui/ro pixP*- 1. I.
Ilv^icoi/*  Kal ev ttj  CKe)(etpia  'ABqvaloi  AqXiovs  dviarqaav iK  AqXov , . .
Kal 01 pev AqXioi 'Arpapvrnov ^apvaKov  bdvros avrols iv rq 'Aaiq coKqaav,
ouTWS ws eKaorros wpp,T]T0.     KXicov be  ABqvaiovs neiaas is rd inl BpqKqs 2. I.
Xcopia i^inXevae perd rr^v eKeyeipiav.

The truce expired in Elaphebolion, March—April. The Pythian
games were celebrated in the Delphic month Bucatius, which
appears, from inscriptions found at Delphi, to have corresponded
to the Attic Metageitnion (August—September). See Kirchhoff,
Monatsb. der Berl. Acad. 1864, p. 129 foil. And it is clear from
V. 12 that the battle of Amphipofis took place at the end of the
summer. Nothing is said by Thucydides of operations preceding
the expedition to Amphipofis. Therefore the words bieXeXwro
pexpi- UvBicov cannot imply that the war was renewed before the
Pythian games.

dteXe'Xvyro. Either i) 'the truce of a year had expired, having
continued tifi the Pythian games;' which is said in the same
manner as pexpl rofjbe hpiaBco vphv q jSpabvrfjs, i. 71 med., lit. Met
your sluggishness, having continued so long, here have an end."
The meaning is that the truce, which should have come to an end
at the beginning of spring, had by a tacit understanding been pro¬
longed untfi the Pythian games; the interval was an dvuKcoxq
danovbos, like that between the Athenians and Corinthians in
V. 32 fin.

Or 2) the emphasis may fafi on bieXiXwro, lit. 'the truce of a
year had expired until the Pythian games;' in other words, not
the truce but a state of affairs in which the truce was no longer
in force (indicated by the pluperfect) continued until the Pythian
games. In this case the silence of Thucydides must be held to
imply what he does not actually say—that there was no renewal
of the war, although preparations may have been making during
the interval for the expedition to Amphipofis.