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2762. The negative of one clause is often repeated in the same or in another clause either for emphasis or because of lax structure.

δ̀ς οὐκ, ἐπειδὴ τῷδε ἐβούλευσας μόρον, δρᾶσαι τόδ᾽ ἔργον οὐκ ἔτλης who did not, after you had planned his death, dare to do this deed A. Ag. 1634. The repetition is rhetorical when the negative is repeated directly, as ““οὐ σμι_κρός, οὔχ, ἁ_γὼν ὅδεnot trifling, is this struggle, no in truthS. O. C. 587.

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