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[334] τοὺς ἄν κε. For this combination see on Od. 5.361. In this passage ἄν is taken up, as it were, by the pronoun, leaving “κε” to qualify the verb.

καί adds an emphasis to ἤθελον = those whom I should have liked to choose, even if there had been no decision by lot.

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