[42] εἴτε οἶσθα ἀλκήν, ἀκούσας φήμην θεῶν του (by having heard a voice from some god), εἴτε οἶσθα ἀλκὴν ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρός που. We might take ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς with ἀλκήν, but it is perh. simpler to take it with οἶσθα: cp. 398 ἀπ᾽ οἰωνῶν μαθών, Thuc. 1.125 “ἐπειδὴ ἀφ᾽ ἁπάντων ἤκουσαν τὴν γνώμην”: though παρά (or πρός) τινος is more frequent.
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