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διαπράσσωνται...ὀρθουμένους ‘But when they are seeking (present) to effect some object without risks, they are more successful (as speakers)’. Cp. Soph. Ant. 675, τῶν δ᾽ ὀρθουμένων, ‘of the prosperous’.

ἐν τῷ ὑμετ. δικ.] ‘A part of your duty no less than of my right’: i.e. compatible with the ἡλιαστικὸς ὅρκος taken by the dikasts.

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