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[183] εἰ θεόξ ἐστιν: we say ‘if he is not a god’; the words imply a slight disposition to accept the affirmative. Cf. Od. 3.216τίς δ᾽ οἶδ᾽ εἴ κέ ποτέ σφι βίας ἀποτίσεται ἐλθών”; Ar. needlessly athetized the line, on the ground that Pandaros has really no doubt. But the very next words obviously imply at least a rhetorical uncertainty.

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