[415] οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν. Of the two opposites here denied it is the second which is logically important. There is no point in the assertion— taken by itself—that the Suitors did not honour the unworthy (“κακός”): but the addition of “οὐ κακόν” leads up to and gives effect to “οὐδὲ μὲν ἐσθλόν”. ‘They honoured neither bad nor good’ is a rhetorical way of saying that they honoured good no more than bad (and therefore not at all). An example of this illogical or at least pleonastic form of expression may be found in Soph. El.305“τὰς οὔσας τέ μου καὶ τὰς ἀπούσας ἐλπίδας διέφθορεν”.
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