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[225] τίπτε δέ σε χρεώ; see on 124 supra. “τίπτε” = cur tandem. The meaning is, ‘what hast thou to do with all this?’

The so-called idiomatic use of the aorist ἔπλετο, where we should use the present, is really delicately accurate: the moment of time between the observation of the fact and the comment thereon throws the reference to the fact into the past.

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