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186 eOYKYAIAOY gYrrPA$H2 B.ij S6^a ra&rris ^s. \i.fyaXr\ i\ 8(5|a— cf. vii. 68 rd TO^xrde Ko\aadrjpai... fcaXds 6 dycliu. kX^os— 'talk,' a neutral word. Cf.Aesch. Af/. 611, Clyt. says om ol5a rep^piv ovb' iirlxf/ofov Ativ\OXKov irpbs dvdpbs.46, 1. Edprjrai—the act. or pass. perf. is often used thus inbringing a speech to a close (Lys. 12, the case referred to byAristotle at the close of the Rhet. is an example ; so probablyEur. ffec. 236. Cf. dixi.) Hence it is made prominent,Kal l|xol—Shil. rightly explains this as connected with Kalipytf, the sense being koI \6yq} i/xol etp7]Tai Kal ^pyvKeKbafir/vTai. 'I have done my duty in delivery of the oration,the city has in deed partly done hers and is prepared to domore.' Kara tov vop.ov ... irpoa-^pa,—a modest descriptionof what had been a metaphysical exposition of the relationof politics to character. Cf. Burke, Reflections, ' I am unableto distinguish what I have learned from others from theresults of my own meditation.' avrwv—cf. c. 27, 1. Itsposition gives it the force of a dat. of interest. K^XP*-iJPriS—to the age of eighteen. Op^ci— of people) {^(xtk€ivof cattle. ^IxTKdv is only used of people contemptuously,except by Herod., and Thuc, who uses the word once, vii. 48vavTiKbv TToXi) ^6ffKovTas: even there the notion of irksomenesscomes in. w(j>^Xi|j,ov—something more than a mere distinction.Toi(r8€—the fallen, roh Xeiwo/Mvois 'the survivors,' asin 41, 5. efywvwv—with aricpavov, like TpoiraTov fidxv^irpoTiOcio-o—' offering. ots—in general relation to thewhole, among whom. ' ' tois Si—cf . c. 65, 5, 5^ in apodosis.ol 0.46, 2. 'AiroXovpd|xtvoi—the 6\6vp