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ὁτιὴ ʼπελαθόμην τοὺς καδίσκους ἐκφέρειν.
The form ὁτιὴ is a crux of textual transmission. While some manuscripts (e.g., Venetus A) read ὁτιὶ or ὅτι, the reading ὁτιὴ (a dialectal or metrical variant of ὅτι with an aspirate) is attested in the tradition but widely considered a corruption or a scribal attempt to represent the colloquial pronunciation of the particle. The more robust textual tradition, supported by the context of the character Bdelycleon's mockery of his father's dialect, often favors ὅτι or the dative form ὅτινι in similar constructions, though the specific reading ὁτιὴ here highlights the play's engagement with phonetic variation in Attic speech.
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