[174] For the use of the infinitive here cf. 9.230; ἵσταται is really an impersonal verb, and the substantive ὄλεθρος is not added in a very strict construction. Logically, the idea is ‘the state of all is on the razor's edge (balancing) between destruction and safety.’ But the juxtaposition of “ὄλεθρος” and “βιῶναι” is a curious instance of the process by which the infin. in later Greek came to be used as a noun.
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