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τοῦθ᾽ ὑπέθετο...ὅπως ‘Thus, in the first place, judges, he assumed this story — a most extraordinary one — in order, I fancy, that it might rest with him to include in this list any Athenian he pleased, or at pleasure to exempt him’. τοῦθ᾽ ὑπέθετο, made this (the story of the moonlight scene) the basis of his evidence: δεινότ. πρ. in appos. with τοῦτο, ‘a most strange’, ‘an incredible affair’. I now prefer this version to rendering: ‘He made this assumption, viz. that it was in his power’, where ὅπως would=ὡς or ὅτι, in sense of ‘that’.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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