Ώσπερ έχει ουτως
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Ώσπερ έχει ουτως
I think that in the following: εἰ γάρ που μετὰ τέχνης ἐχρῆτο, ὥσπερ ἔχει οὕτως [90a] ἂν ἡγήσατο, τοὺς μὲν χρηστοὺς καὶ πονηροὺς σφόδρα ὀλίγους εἶναι ἑκατέρους, τοὺς δὲ μεταξὺ πλείστους. ὥσπερ οὕτως functions together as a relative adverb of manner: he would have considered how the things stood...it may also be that οὕτως goes with ἡγήσατο: he would have considered in this way how the things stood . In any case Steadman's explanation of οὕτως ἔχει as ''is so" does not fit here.
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Re: Ώσπερ έχει ουτως
ὥσπερ and οὕτως are correlative. ὥσπερ ἔχει, οὕτως ἂν ἡγήσατο “just as it is, so would he have thought," i.e. “he would correctly have thought …” or “he’d have thought, as is in fact the case, …,”
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