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ἐμὸς ἀδελφεός: i. e. full brother; cf. vii. 7 n., 82 n., 97.


τὰ διδόμενα: cf. viii. 114. 1 n.

τοσόνδε, ‘only so much’; cf. i. 128. 2, 199. 3.

Masistes' answer ‘You have not yet destroyed me’, means primarily ‘You have taken from me not life, but all that makes life worth living’, and perhaps contains a covert threat ‘You have still left me life and the chance of revenge’.

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