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For indeed we are in danger to be accused concerning this day’s riot (kai gar kinduneuomen egkaleisthai staseōs peri tēs sāmeron). The text is uncertain. The text of Westcott and Hort means “to be accused of insurrection concerning today’s assembly.” The peril was real. Kinduneuomen, from kindunos, danger, peril. Old verb, but in the N.T. only here and Luk 8:23; 1Co 15:30.
There being no cause for it (mādenos aitiou huparchontos). Genitive absolute with aitios, common adjective (cf. aitia, cause) though in N.T. only here and Heb 5:9; Luk 23:4, Luk 23:14, Luk 23:22.
And as touching it (peri hou). “Concerning which.” But what? No clear antecedent, only the general idea.
Give an account of this concourse (apodounai logon peri tēs sustrophēs tautēs). Rationem reddere. They will have to explain matters to the proconsul. Sustrophē (from sun, together, strephō, to turn) is a late word for a conspiracy (Act 23:12) and a disorderly riot as here (Polybius). In Act 28:12 sustrephō is used of gathering up a bundle of sticks and of men combining in Mat 17:22. Seneca says that there was nothing on which the Romans looked with such jealousy as a tumultuous meeting.