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ὅ τι ἄν: for the hiatus cp. § 28 ὅ τι ἂν λέγῃς. ἀκριβῶσαι, ‘master’, ‘thoroughly understand’. ὧν: attracted relative for ἐκείνων (partit. gen. after ὅ τι) ἅ. ἐμπειρίᾳ, ‘practice,’ as opposed to filosofi/a|, ‘theory.’ μέτιθι, ‘go after’, so ‘pursue’, ‘study’. For μετά in composition see note on E. 50 μεταπεπτώκασιν. τὰς ὁδούς, ‘the methods to be pursued.’ χρῆσθαι τοῖς πράγμασι, ‘to deal with events as they arise’; cp. N. C. 30 τὰς χρήσεις τῶν πραγμάτων. ἂν γὰρ τὰ παρεληλυθότα κτἑ: cp. Andoc. 23. 39 χρὴ τεκμηρίοις χρῆσθαι τοῖς πρότερον γενομένοις περὶ τῶν μελλόντων ἔσεσθαι, and Dion. Halicarn. Antiq. x, p. 471 βουλεύονταί τε ἄριστα περὶ τῶν μελλόντων οἱ παραδείγματα ποιούμενοι τὰ γεγονότα τῶν ἐσομένων.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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