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[300] δείδω μὴ … εἶπεν. The aorist indicative implies that his anxiety is about a fact which has already taken place. Cp. Soph. Elect.580“ὅρα . . μὴ πῆμα σαυτῇ τίθης” (not “τιθῇς”), ‘take care that you are not making’ (but the reading is not certain, as the best MS. has the corrupt. “τίθῃς”); and similarly, Eur. Ion1523“ὅρα σὺ . . μὴ τῷ θεῷ τὴν αἰτίαν προστίθης”, or, better, Eur. Hel.119“σκοπεῖτε μὴ δόκησιν εἴχετ᾽ ἐκ θεῶν”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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