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[861] It might seem most natural to join φθ́ηηι with ὀλέσσαι, be first to lose his life. But the constr. with the infin instead of the part. is unknown in H., and is so rare in later Greek as to oblige us to join “φθήηι τυπείς”, taking “ὀλέσσαι” as consecutive, so as to lose.

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