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109. Dual subject and plural predicate adjective.

ISOC.12.156:εἰ γάρ τις φαίη τὼ πόλει τούτω πλείστων ἀγαθῶν αἰτίας γεγενῆσθαι”, If any one should say that both these cities have been the authors of many blessings. (The dual in -“α” does not occur in the orators, and is rare elsewhere1).

1 See Keck, Über den Dual bei den Griechischen Rednern, Würzburg, 1882, p. 14.

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