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words are repeated so as to make the climax more conspicuous; able to
perform the duties enjoined, yea, not only able to perform that which is
prescribed, but who of his own will, without any command, is able to be
useful. A word or clause is often repeated for the sake of perspicuity •
cf. Cyrop. V. 2. 31: dffcpaXeffrepap ovBe piiap Tropeiap T]fxlp ttjs irphs av-
r^v Ba^vXwpa Trop eias lepai.

4.—Mej/T*     forsooth, ironically; see Hartung, Gr. Partik. p. 394;

Kiihn. L. Gr. II § 698. a.------Bid rd Trpdyptara, in the present state

of things.

5«—Tod   avrhp   eXbelp.    We should expect avr^, but the usual
attraction is neglected; see Kiihn. Gr. § 807. 2, and R. 2; L. Gr. II. § 648.

------eKeipcp fxelCop  dyabhp...^  ffoi,   a greater favor to him...

than to you.------rh Trpax^vvat radra, i.e., that he should be re¬
ceived as a friend by you.

6.—Oi^TOj  S^,   see note, II. 7. 14.------Kal  ov  ttoAv reAeo'as,

non magnis sumptibus, at no great expense.------hs epyop elx^t

who made it his work, to see, in what he could, etc.; cf. Cyrop. VIH.
4. 6: epyop 'exetP Beoptepop rovrov Koipwpelp robs TTap6pras, So epyop
TTOielffbat as in Plat. Phaedr. p. 232. A. where cf Stallb. and Heindorf.;
also Hieron. IX. 10: ttoAAoi's Up koI rodro e^oppt'f}ffeiep ^pyop Trotelffbai
rh ffKOTrelp rt dyabop.
 

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1.—''OTt; for the ellipsis with c^Tt, sc. tpa BrjXop ^, {Hn), K.r.X., or

something of the kind, see Hoogev. Gr. Partik. p. 391, 2. III.------rwp

KaXcov, here means public office, or honors.------eTrtpieXels  dop  bpe-

yoipro ttoiwp, by making them careful in reference to those things^
which they desire. The Opt. bpey. is used to designate indefinite fre¬
quency ; see Ktihn. Gr. § 333. 4; L. Gr. IL § 797. 2. Cf. IV. 4. 1: U ol
pdfiot TTposrdrroiev TreibSptevos; 7. 1: '6 rt fxep avrhs elBeir], Trdprwp Trpobv-
fx6rara iBiBaffKep, '6rov Be avrhs aTreipSrepos etr], TTphs robs iTrtffrafxepovs

^yep avrods.------AiopvffbBwpop.    Dionysodorus first professed to be

a teacher of military tactics at Athens, and afterwards joined himself to
the Sophists. He was brother of Euthydemus. His vanity and ignor¬
ance are made conspicuous here, as well as in the Euthydemus of Plato^

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