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ἐκεῖθεν, ‘from the following consideration,’ referring forward to the sentence introduced by γάρ; cp. the regular use of ἐκεῖνος as the antecedent of the relative (= Latin is), and ἐκείνως . . . εἰ (§ 39). ἢν γὰρ . . . τὰ μὲν ὀνόματα κτἑ, ‘if one retains only the words and ideas and breaks up the metre.’ With the whole of this passage cp. Plato, Republ. x. 601 B ἐπεὶ γυμνωθέντα γε τῶν τῆς μουσικῆς χρωμάτων τὰ τῶν ποιητῶν, αὐτὰ ἐφ᾽ αὑτῶν λεγόμενα, οἶμαί σε εἰδέναι οἷα φαίνεται. ἧς: the relative is here attracted into the case of its antecedent; cp. Xen. Anab. i. 3. 16 “τῷ ἡγεμόνι πιστεύσομεν ᾧ ἂν Κῦρος διδῷ”. πλεονεκτούσης: πλεονεκτεῖν (πλέον ἔχειν) has two meanings (1) when πλέον means ‘more’, ‘to have more than some one else’, so ‘to have an advantage’ (as here), cp. πλεονεξίας (N.C. 22), ‘advantages’; or (2) ‘to have too much’, so ‘to be greedy’ or ‘grasping’ as in § 20 and ad N. 24, and πλεονεξία (N.C. 1), ‘selfish end’. εἰ, ‘to see if.’
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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