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[ {keleta}.]
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[ {sumballontai}: the Athenians apparently are spoken of, for they alone believed the story.]
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[ {apoplesai}: this is the reading of the MSS.; but many Editors adopt corrections ({apoplesthai} or {apoplesthenai}). The subject to {apoplesai} is to be found in the preceding sentence and the connexion with {ton te allon panta k.t.l.} is a loose one. This in fact is added as an afterthought, the idea being originally to call attention simply to the fulfilment of the oracle of Lysistratos.]
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[ {phruxousi}: a conjectural emendation, adopted by most Editors, of {phrixousi}, "will shudder (at the sight of oars).">[
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[ {kat allon kai allon}: the MSS. have {kat allon}, but Valla's rendering is "alium atque alium.">[