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εἰ κύνα μὲν ἂν ἐπειρῶ κτλ.: that while you would try etc. For μέν in logically subord. clauses, see on i.4.17. εἰ ἦν, ἠσπάζετο, ἐχαλέπαινεν: all in prot. to ἂν ἐπειρῶ. τοῦ ὀργίζεσθαι: for the articular inf. with ἀμελέω, see GMT. 793. αὐτόν: i.e. τὸν κύνα. For the use of this pron. to recall the main subst., cf. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν βασιλέα ... οὐκ οἶδα ὅ τι δεῖ αὐτὸν ὀμόσαι An. ii.4.7 φῂς μέν: correlative to οὐκ ἐπιχειρεῖς, but δέ follows ἐπίστασθαι because this is placed first in the sentence.
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