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οἵ γε καὶ ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀντιπάλως μᾶλλον ἢ ὑποδεεστέρως τῷ ναυτικῷ ἀνθώρμουν → whose navy, even as it was, faced the Athenian more as an equal than as an inferior
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English (LSJ)
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A consisting of four metres, i.e., in iambic and trochaic verse, consisting of four double feet or syzygies: τὸ τετράμετρον is generally the trochaic tetrameter, Ar.Nu.642,645, X.Smp.6.3, Arist.Rh.1404a31, 1409a1, Po.1459b37: also the anapaestic tetrameter, called τὸ Ἀριστοφάνειον (as in Nu.957 sq.), D.H. Comp.25; cf. τρίμετρος. 2 γωνίαι τ. square, i.e. right, angles, Callix.2 (dub. l.).