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Cf. Aesch. Pers. 236στρατὸς τοιοῦτος ἔρξας πολλὰ δὴ Μήδους κακά”: and for similar imitations vii. 8. γ 3, 16. α 1, 103.4; viii. 68. γ, 109. 3; and in general, Introduction, § 18.

ἀλλ᾽ εἰ ... πρήσσοις. Stein says εἰ with optative is here a mild imperative; cf. Hom. Il. x. 111; xv. 571; xvi. 559 ἀλλ᾽ εἴ μιν ἀεικισσαίμεθ᾽ ἑλόντες, and xxiv. 74. Cf. Monro, Homeric Grammar, § 311. Goodwin (§ 723) regards these as optatives in a wish with εἰ, which was probably in origin a protasis, with apodosis suppressed.

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