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[370] κηρόθι μᾶλλον, a fixed phrase, in which the comparative has no application to the present context. It properly means ‘rather much (than little),’ then, by a litotes, ‘right well’: cp. “θᾶσσον”=‘right quickly.’ It does not mean ‘more than before,’ as Ameis takes it.

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