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Τὴν μεγάλην βασίλειαν—the great kingdom existing in 431. ἐπὶ πλεῖον τῆς ἄλλης—there are several ways of explaining this. The old rendering was ‘made it more powerful than the rest of Thrace,’ but this strains ἐπὶ πλεῖον. The others are (1) ‘extended his kingdom over a great part of Thrace,’ (2) ‘established it over a greater territory than the rest of Thrace comprised,’ i.e. it included more than half of Thrace, (3) ‘formed it on a larger scale than the rest of Thraee.’ Probably (2) is right; I. 9, 3, 71, 3 are similar.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 2. E.C. Marchant. London. MacMillan & Company. 1891.
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