ὅσῳπερ, sc. “μάλιστα”: cp.
, where “πλεῖστον” is grammatically needed with “ὅσῳπερ”, though “μόνη” is added as if “ἐπειδή”, and not “ὅσῳπερ”, had preceded. Schol. “ἐγὼ μάλιστά σε καλῶ, ὅσῳπερ πλεῖστον ἀλγῶ τοῖς παθήμασιν”,—where the absence of any ref. to the words “εἰ μὴ...κάκιστος” has caused suspicion: but the schol.'s aim was simply to explain the syntax. πλειστον … κάκιστος: Ph. 631 “τῆς πλεῖστον ἐχθίστης”: Eur. Med. 1323 “ὦ μέγιστον ἐχθίστη γύναι”: Alc. 790 “τὴν πλεῖστον ἡδίστην”.“ἐπείνιν τῶνδε πλεῖστον ὤκτισα
βλέπουσ᾽, ὅσῳπερ καὶ φρονεῖν ὀ̂δεν μόνη
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