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οἴσεις, written in L over the vulgate ἔχεις, cannot be a correction of the latter, but must represent a distinct reading (whether conjectural or not). ἴσχεις would suit the metre (=“ἅζονθ᾽134, where see n.) equally well: but the language slightly favours “οἴσεις.

φέρειν λόγον πρὸς ἐμὰν λέσχαν=to bring forward something to be discussed with us (cp.

σύγκλητον
τήνδε γερόντων προὔθετο λέσχην

), not, "in answer to our address," a sense which λέσχη never has. For φέρειν cp. Tr. 122ὧν ἐπιμεμφομένα σ᾽ ἁδεῖα (“αἰδοῖαμυσγραϝἐ μὲν ἀντία δ᾽ οἴσω”: for fut. indic. with εἰ of immediate purpose, with an imperat. in apodosis, Aristoph. Av. 759αἶρε πλῆκτρον εἰ μαχεῖ”.


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