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[571] ἔπλετο. The tense may be explained as expressing a culminating point = ‘has come to be,’ see Monro, H. G. § 78. Compare “τίς δαὶς, τίς δὲ ὅμιλος ὅδ᾽ ἔπλετο”; Od.1. 225.The truism is not unlike the dictum of Teiresias, ‘aut erit aut non,’ in Horace.

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