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[81] φαῖμέν κεν is potential, ‘we might deem it a delusion.’ Homeric usage permits us to translate ‘we should have said’; but the phrase ‘belongs to the borderland between past and future conclusions,’ M. and T. § 442. νοσφιζοίμεθα, hold aloof from the plans founded on it.

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