ἵνα τί
νόσημα γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους → for I consider false words to be the foulest sickness
English (Thayer)
(so L WH uniformly, also Tr except (by mistake?) in ἱνατί (so st bez G T uniformly; see Winer's Grammar, § 5,2); Latinut quid? i. e. for what purpose? wherefore? why? an elliptical formula, due to the fact that a questioner begins an answer to his own question with the word ἵνα, but not knowing how to complete it reverts again to the question, as if to ask what will complete the answer: that (what?) may or might happen (ut (quid?) fiat or fieret); see Herm. ad Vig., p. 847; Kühner, § 587,5 ii., p. 1020; Winer's Grammar, § 25,1at the end; (Buttmann, § 149,2): Sept., Ald.); Alex., Ald., Complutensian); Theod.); Aristophanes, nub. 1192; Plato, Apology c. 14, p. 26c.; others.)
