τῷδ᾽, referring to what has just preceded (cp. on 787), as Ant. 464, 566, Ai. 1080. The dat., marking the point in which the excellence is shown, is the usu. constr.: so Thuc. has “προέχειν δυνάμει” (1. 9), “ναυτικῷ” (1. 25), “πλήθει … καὶ ἐμπειρίᾳ” (1. 121), “γνώμῃ” (2. 62), etc.: Xen. Anab. 3.2.19 “ἑνὶ δὲ μόνῳ προέχουσιν ἡμᾶς”: Lac. 15. 3 “πλούτῳ ὑπερφέρειν”: Her. 8.138 “ῥόδα ὀδμῇ ὑπερφέροντα”: 8. 144 “χώρη κάλλεϊ καὶ ἀρετῇ μέγα ὑπερφέρουσα”: 9. 96 “κάλλεϊ καὶ μεγάθεϊ ὑπερφέρων”. Surely, then, usage is strongly for τῷδ᾽ as against τοῦθ᾽.
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