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[58] τὰ δὲ πολλά. ‘A world of things they waste,’ Chapman. Lit. ‘and these things largely go to waste.’ We must not join “τὰ πολλά” in the later sense, ‘most of these things,’ for “τά” is a demonstrative and not the article, cp. Od.5. 323 οἱ πολλὴ ἀπὸ κρατὸς κελάρυζεν”, Od.22. 272αὖτις δὲ μνηστῆρες ἀκόντισαν ὀξέα δοῦρα

ἱέμενοι: τὰ δὲ πολλὰ ἐτώσια θῆκεν Ἀθήνη”.

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