*plw=| xrhsa/menos tritai=os e)k tw=n *)aqhnai/wn e)s *mitulh/nhn a)fi=ktai.
The headword phrase is a slight misquotation of
Thucydides 3.3.5 (who says not 'the Athenians' but '
Athens': web address 1), on events of 428 BCE. The 'he' is an unnamed man hastening to inform the people of
Mytilene (
mu 1138,
mu 1139) that the Athenians have sent a preliminary force to quell their revolt.
For the idiom with
tritai=os -- which, by inclusive Greek reckoning, means after two days travelling -- see LSJ s.v., I.
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