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τῶν κωλυσόντων. For the article cf. § 23 τὴν...παραταξομένην. μέντοι answers to the μὲν of the preceding clause: μέντοι may be substituted for δὲ in most cases, and is regularly so substituted when the clause which it introduces begins with οὐ or μή.