¹ There were, of course, several Megarian Decrees, not to mention the other (Thuc. 1.67.4). Throughout I use ‘Megarian Decree’ as a shorthand for some action of Athens towards Megara in the fairly immediate past in 433.

² de Ste. Croix, G. E. M., The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (London, 1972), p. 230.Google Scholar

³ e.g. Gomme, A. W., Historical Commentary on Thucydides i (Oxford, 1945),Google Scholar ad loc. Brunt, P. A., AJP 72 (1951), 271 n. 9;Google ScholarLepper, F. A., JHS 82 (1962), 54;CrossRefGoogle ScholarKagan, D., The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (Cornell University Press 1969), p. 256;Google ScholarMeiggs, R., The Athenian Empire (Oxford, 1972), p. 430;Google ScholarDe Ste. Croix, , loc. cit.;Google ScholarLegon, R., CP 68 (1973), 169.Google Scholar

⁴ Loc. cit.

⁵ Op. cit., p. 233.Google Scholar

⁶ e.g. Crawley: ‘the unfavourable im pression which your conduct to Megara lias created’ (repeated without change in Harding, H. R., The Speeches of Thucydides [Lawrence, Kansas, 1973)).Google Scholar

⁷ e.g. Sealey, R., CP 70 (1975), 103 n. 26.Google Scholar

⁸ von Fritz, K., Die griechische Geschichtstchreibung i (Anmerkungen) (Berlin, 1967), 286–7 n. 37:Google Scholar ‘… weil hier, auch in Anivendung auf eines speziellen Fall, ein allgemeines Prinzip ausgesprochen wird: eine spater erwiesene freundliche Handlung lasst einen früheren Affront bzw. das gegen die Macht die ihn begangen hat daraus snstandeneMisstrauen verschwinden oder wenigstens verblassen.’

⁹ Loc. cit. The same translation in Bonner, R. J., CP 16 (1921), 239.Google Scholar

¹⁰ e.g. Jowett, B., Thucydides i (Oxford, 1881), ad loc.;Google ScholarBusolt, G., Griechische Geschichte iii. 2 (Gotha, 1904), 811 f. n. 1 (following Classen-Steup⁴ ad loc.)Google Scholar

¹¹ Loc. cit. The disagreements here expressed with De Ste. Croix's treatment of Thuc. 1.42.2 do not, of course, connote any lack of respect whatsoever for this brilliantly stimulating work of scholarship.

¹² Similar interpretations seem to lie behind the translations of Meiggs, loc. cit. (‘suspicions that you once aroused because of Megara’) and de Romilly, J., Budé Thucydides (Paris, 1953), ad loc.Google Scholar (‘la suspicion anterieurement creee par le cas de Megara’), both of whom also take the reference to be to events of c. 460.

¹³ He writes that is a ‘fatal difficulty’ for the view that the reference is to the Megarian Decree.

¹⁴ Thuc. 1.103.4.

¹⁵ See further below, pp. 305 f.

¹⁶ It is a melancholy fact that the relevance of 1.72.1 to the interpretation of 1.52.2 was long ago noted in Classen-Steup⁴ ad 1.42.2 (after Steup, J., Thukydideische Studien ii (Freiburg/Tübingen, 1886), 22).Google Scholar

¹⁷ i.e. is to be supplied. LSJ⁹ s.v. ii.2 translates 'gradually to take away part of. Stephanus, , Thesaurus Graecae Linguae s.v. suggests ‘minuere’.Google Scholar

¹⁸ Thuc. 1.139.1–2; 140.3–4:144.2.

¹⁹ Loc. cit.

²⁰ Cf. 1.140.4.

²¹ They are not mentioned at all after 1.124.3.

²² 1.103.4.

²³ That what in 1.42.2 is merely in 1.103.4 is is simply Thucydides' tacit comment on the tactful way the Corinthians expressed themselves in 433. It should be noted that the pro-Athenian action of the Corinthians in 440 in the matter of Samos(Thuc. 1.40.5; 41.2) is not inconsistent with the subsistence of this at least if the rationale for that action was what the Corinthians in 433 claime it to have been.

²⁴ 1.103.4.

²⁵ 1.27.2.

²⁶ Thanks are due to Robin Seager for reading an earlier draft of this note.