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[22] δισθανέες. Cp. Virg. Aen.6. 134.ὅτε should properly mean ‘when other men die only once,’ referring to the time they had chosen for their voluntary visit to the realm of the dead. But the temporal sense cannot be strongly pressed. As in the use of the Latin ‘cum,’ and our ‘while,’ the sense is passing into that of a logical conjunction.

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