οὕτω δέ, ‘so, I say, she’: for “δέ” introducing the apodosis in a simile cp. El. 25 “ὥσπερ γὰρ ἵππος εὐγενής...θυμὸν οὐκ ἀπώλεσεν ι ..., ὡσαύτως δὲ σὺ ι ἡμᾶς τ᾽ ὀτρύνεις κ.τ.λ.”: so Tr. 112 ff., “πολλὰ γὰρ ὥστ᾽...οὕτω δὲ τὸν Καδμογενῆ.” ψιλόν, sc. “κόνιος”, stripped of the dust which she had sprinkled on it (409). Cp. O. C. p. 279.
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