[302] μέν is not balanced by φρονεῖς δ᾽ (as if we had οὐ βλέπεις μέν), but by the thought of the expected healer (310). The δὲ after φρονεῖς introduces the apodosis after a concessive protasis, as Hdt. 8.22 “εἰ δὲ ὑμῖν ἐστι τοῦτο μὴ δυνατὸν ποιῆσαι, ὑμέες δὲ”(then) ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐκ τοῦ μέσου ἡμῖν ἕζεσθε. Xen. Cyrop. 5.5.21 “ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μηδὲ τοῦτο ... βούλει ἀποκρίνασθαι, σὺ δὲ τοὐτεῦνθεν λέγε.”
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