5. ἐλπίσας — 
						expecting. On the relation of the participles here see Intr. p. xli.
						This first sentence is very characteristic of Thuc., in whose periods form is
						constantly subordinated to sense. O. Muller well says that Thuc. has two
						favourite forms of period, (a) the main predication, followed by clauses giving
						the circumstances and reasons, which may in turn be explained in similar
						clauses; and (b) the reasons, circumstances in participial and other clauses
						followed by the resulting fact or opinion, as in c. 2. 2 
						. ἀξιολογώτατον τῶν π .—the
						illogical form of comparison, as in c. 10. 3 , cf.
						‘fairest of her daughters Eve’: Tac. Ag. 34 
									 ceterorum fugacissimi. It is frequent in Greek. 
								 6 τεκμαιρόμενος — inferring
						this, adding the grounds of the ἐλπίς 
						These grounds are (1) ὅτι ἀκμάζοντες 
						..., (2) ὁρῶν ... Thus the clause with ὅτι is co-ordinate with a partic. of 
						cause ; cf. Xen. Symp. 8. 11 
									 τεκμαίρομαι τῇ καλοκἀγαθίᾳ καὶ ὅτι σε ὁρῶ 
						. 7. ἀκμάζοντές ... παρασκευῇ 
						— at the height of their military power. That ᾖσαν , not ἦσαν ,
						is the true reading there cannot be a doubt; for ἰέναι
						ἐς in this pregnant use see L. & S. 8. τὸ ἄλλο Ἑλληνικόν —including
						the Greeks outside Greece proper. Cf. τὸ ληστικόν 
						, τὸ βαρβαρικόν , τὸ
						ξενικόν , and many others.