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αὐτούς, emphatic: self-help is needed, as well as divine help ὅπως μὴ . . . δόξωμεν. Cf. i. § 2 (note). χείρους . . . τῶν ὑπαρχ. “Less kind to ourselves (Heslop) than circumstances have been to us,” literally than what we have already. τῶν αἰσχρῶν, neuter. Cf. i. § 26, τῶν ἀτοπωτάτων μεντἂν εἴη. πόλεων. Inversely attracted from acc. by the succeeding relative ὧν.
Demosthenes: Olynthiacs I, II, III. H. Sharpley. 1900. W. Blackwood and Sons.
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