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[47] αὐτοῦ, ‘he’ emphatic, ‘the god’; a use which reminds us of the Pythagorean “αὐτὸς ἔφα”. We should have expected the word to imply an opposition to some other person as in 51; merely to contrast the god with the arrows seems weak. It was probably this which induced Zen., followed by Bentley and Bekker, to athetize this and the preceding line; but the couplet is too fine to be sacrificed.

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