πρεσβεύοντ̓ = “πρεσβύτερον ὄντα”, as often in good prose: Thuc. 6.55 “γέγραπται μετὰ τὸν πατέρα...διὰ τὸ πρεσβεύειν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ” (because he was his eldest son). οὕτω goes best with γελᾶσθαι: cp. 1339.
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