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Σόλους: Soli was an Athenian colony south-west of Tarsus in Cilicia. It must be distinguished from Soli in the north-west of Cyprus, which was a Phoenician settlement. Strabo (p. 663) derived the word σόλοικος, ‘speaking incorrectly,’ and σολοικισμός (our English word ‘solecism’), from the fact that the Attic dialect became corrupt among the colonists of Soli; this derivation is, however, improbable. τὴν αὐτὴν γνώμην τοῖς . . . περιπίπτουσι: ὁ αὐτός is regularly followed by the dative, ‘the same as,’ cp. § 77 τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκείνοις ἐπιτηδευμάτων ἐπιθυμῶσιν. ταπεινοτέρας, ‘humbled,’ lit. ‘more humble (i.e. than usual)’. εἰς τοσοῦτον μεγαλοφροσύνης, ‘to such (a point of) greatness of soul’; for the neuter of the pronoun followed by the genitive cp. § 54 εἰς τοῦτ᾽ ἀπληστίας. τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον: ἄλλος when applied to χρόνος almost always refers to the past, λοιπός (§ 80) or ἐπίλοιπος (N. C. 58) being used of the future. ὤν: the present participle often serves as an imperfect participle, trans. ‘though he had been’.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
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