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[*] 331. In colloquial Greek we often find ἵνα τί; that what?— where τί takes the place of a final clause, which generally appears in the answer to the question. E.g. ΒΛ. ἵνα τί; ΠΡ. δῆλον τουτογί: ἵνα . . . ἔχωσιν. AR. Eccl. 719. So AR. Nub. 1192, Pac. 409. So DEM. xix. 257: ἵνα τί; ἵν᾽ ὡς μετὰ πλείστης συγγνώμης παρ᾽ ὑμῶν κατηγορῶ. Just before this we have διὰ τί; ἵνα μήτε ἐλέου μήτε συγγνώμης τύχῃ. So PLAT. Ap. 26 C.
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