6. πλησίον δύναμιν δείξας, by making a display of force in their neighbourhood, Elatea being near enough to Thebes to make Philip's presence there alarming.
7. ἐπᾶραι (cf. ἐπαρθεὶς, § 168.2), with ποιῆσαι and καταπλῆξαι, depends on βούλεται understood, this answering τί βούλεται; as the following ἵν᾽ ... βιασθῶσιν answers τίνος ἕνεκα;