κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον, φασί, πλοῦν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ληπτέον τῶν κακῶν → we must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils
hypercătălectus: or hypercă-tălectĭcus, versus = ὑπερκατάληκτος> or ὑπερκαταληκτικός, in prosody,
I a verse that has at the end a syllable or a foot too much, hypercatalectic, Serv. p. 1817 P.; Prisc. p. 1216 ib.