Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, section 60

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οὐχ ὑπὲρ τῶν γεγενημένων ὀργιζόμενος: the reference is to the hostilities in Cyprus itself, where Soli and Citium had appealed to Persia against Evagoras.

πολὺ περὶ μειζόνων: this order of words is more emphatic than the more usual περὶ πολὺ μειζόνων.

ὥρμησεν, ‘threw himself into the war.’ ὁρμᾶν can be used in the active either (1) transitively ‘to set in motion’, or (2), as here, intransitively ‘to set oneself in motion’.

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Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.

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