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μὴ καθαροί sc. ὄντες. Xen. Cyr. III. 1. 16, τί χρήσαιτ᾽ ἄν τις ἰσχυρῷ ἢ ἀνδρείῳ, μὴ σώφρονι; συνεισβάντες Xen. Cyr. VIII. 1. 25, ὥσπερ οἱ πλεῖν αἱρούμενοι μετὰ τῶν εὐσεβῶν μᾶλλον ἢ μετὰ τῶν ἠσεβηκέναι τι δοκούντων. Cp. Aesch. Theb. 597 — 600: Hor. Carm. III. 2. 26: Eur. El. 1354. διακωλύοντες...μὴ γίγνεσθαι Xen. Anab. II. 3. 3, θυομένῳ ἰέναι ἐπὶ βασιλέα οὐκ ἐγίγνετο τὰ ἱερά, opp. to καλὰ ἡμῖν τὰ ἱερὰ ἦν. The pollution incurred by the slaying of the Persian heralds hindered the sacrifices at Sparta from being favourable until the μῆνις of Talthybius had been appeased, Her. VII. 134.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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