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[70] The opposition expressed by φιλέῃσιν and ἐχθαίρῃσι is repeated and explained in 72-73. Too much kindness, shown in keeping a guest against his will, is as bad as sending him away before he wishes to go. But the gnomic line 74 is clearly an addition, as such a line is apt to be.

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