οὓς ἐκείνη
κτλ. See Eur. Alc. 683 ff. where the
appeal of Admetus is thus answered by his father Pheres: οὐ
γὰρ πατρῷον τόνδ᾽ ἐδεξάμην νόμον | παίδων προθνήσκειν πατέρας οὐδ᾽ Ἑλληνικόν.
ἀλλοτρίους. Admetus might have described
his ἀλλότριοι προσήκοντες as “a little
more than kin and less than kind.”
εὐαριθμήτοις. A grandiose synonym for
ὀλίγοις.
ἔδοσαν τοῦτο γέρας...ἀγασθέντες. Cp.
Phaedrus 259 B ὃ γέρας παρὰ θεῶν ἔχουσιν
ἀνθρώποις διδόναι, τάχ᾽ ἂν δοῖεν ἀγασθέντες. ἄγαμαι can take
either the genitive (Rep. 426 D, etc.) or the accus.
(Symp. 219 D, etc.). This passage is alluded to by Plut. amat. 762 A λέγοντες ἐξ ᾄδου τοῖς
ἐρωτικοῖς ἄνοδον εἰς φῶς ὑπάρχειν.
οὕτω...τιμῶσιν. Cp. Xen.
Symp. VIII. 28 ἀλλὰ καὶ θεοὶ καὶ ἥρωες
τὴν τῆς ψυχῆς φιλίαν περὶ πλείονος...ποιοῦνται.
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