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πρὸς τί, ‘wherefore?’ Cp. O.T. 766, 1027, 1144.

ᾖξεν, trans., as Eur. Or. 1427 ff. “παρὰ βόστρυχον αὔραν”.. | .. “κύκλῳ πτερίνῳ...ᾁσσων”, ‘agitating’ the air with a fan. Eur. Itis not impossible to take “ᾖξεν” as intrans. (‘broke forth in violence’); but it would be very harsh.

δυσλόγιστον is an epithet proper to the violence, transferred to the hand which wrought it; ‘reasoning amiss,’ i.e. ‘irrational,’ ‘insensate.’ Cp. 229παραπλήκτῳ χερί”. An exact parallel to this active sense is afforded by Arist. Rhet. 2. 8. 4, where “οἱ πεπαιδευμένοι” are called “εὐλόγιστοι”, i.e., ‘reflecting,’ ‘prudent.’ In its passive sense, “δυσλόγιστον” would mean that the deed is ‘inexplicable’: cp. Anaximenes ap. Eclog. 2. 8. 17 “τὸ γὰρ δυσλόγιστον τοῦ βίου τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τύχην προσαγορεύομεν”, ‘we give the name of chance to that element in life which men find hard to explain.’ But here the agent's frenzy is more in point than the observer's perplexity.—Some take δυσλόγιστον with τί: ‘for what unintelligible reason?’ But this enfeebles the sense and mars the rhythm.


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    • Aristotle, Rhetoric, 2.8.4
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