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[52] ἀνίη καὶ τὸ φυλάσσειν. This is the nearest approach in Homer to the ‘articular infinitive’: cp. 1. 370 “ἐπεὶ τό γε καλὸν ἀκουέμεν ἐστὶν ἀοιδοῦ”, where the art. is not brought so close to the inf. as in this place.

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