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βασιλείας: here, ‘kingship’, ‘kingly office’. περιίδῃς: see note on περιιδεῖν, E. 30. τὴν σαυτοῦ φύσιν ἅπασαν, ‘your whole being’ (F.). διαλυθεῖσαν, ‘dissolved,’ i.e. by death. For another meaning of διαλύειν see N. C. 33. θνητοῦ σώματος ἔτυχες, ‘you possess a mortal body.’ τυγχάνειν with the genitive means ‘to hit upon’, so ‘obtain’, and in the aorist ‘have obtained’, so ‘possess’. The sentiment expressed in these and the following words is very common in Isocrates, e.g. Phil. 134 τὸ μὲν σῶμα θνητὸν ἅπαντες ἔχομεν, κατὰ δὲ τὴν εὐλογίαν καὶ τοὺς ἐπαίνους . . . ἀθανασίας μεταλαμβάνομεν. τῆς ψυχῆς: see note on E. 23. ἀθάνατον τὴν μνήμην: see note on E. 16.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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