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τηλικαύτας: see notes on § 19 and 22. ἐπιδόσεις: see note on § 7. ἤθεσιν: ἤθη from meaning ‘customs’ comes to mean, as here, ‘characteristics’, ‘qualities’, of an individual. οἵοις: the relative is attracted from the acc. (οἷα) to the case of the antecedent; cp. ἧς (§ 11) and ὧν (§ 46) and notes. πρότερον: i.e. in § 22-4. μείζω λέγων: cp. μεγάλα λέγειν, § 39. διελθεῖν: cp. § 12 note. πολὺ λίαν ἀπολειφθῶ: the more natural order would be λίαν πολύ, but this would cause a hiatus. ἀπολειφθῶ: see note on § 18 οὐδενὸς . . . ἀπολειφθέντος. τῶν πεπραγμένων αὐτῷ: for the dative see note on § 2 ἐκείνῳ.
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