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4 examples of pleon in sentences
This is the right application of Hesiod's maxim, [Greek: pleon aemisu pantos]the half is more than the whole.
[Greek: pleon] for [Greek: perissoteron] and also the compound form [Greek: apaitaesousin].
[[Greek: pleon hemisu pantos], ] or Half is more than the Whole, is very applicable to the present Case; since nothing is more true in political Arithmetick, than that the same People with half a Country is more valuable than with the Whole.
[Footnote: Reading [Greek: to pleon] (Reimar, Bekker, Boissevain).]