μέν νυν as in Soph. Trach. 441.

οὐκ ἰσούμενόν σ’ , governed by κρίνοντες in 34. But he begins as if instead of ἑζόμεσθ’ ἐφέστιοι, ἱκετεύομεν were to follow: hence ἰσούμενον instead of ἴσον. It is needless to take ἰσούμενον (1) as accus. absol., or (2) as governed by ἑζόμεσθ’ ἐφέστιοι in the sense of ἱκετεύομεν, —like φθορὰς … ψήφους ἔθεντο Aesch. Ag. 814, or γένος … νέωσον αἶνον Aesch. Supp. 533. Musgrave conj. ἰσούμενοι as = “deeming equal,” but the midd. would mean “making ourselves equal,” like ἀντισουμένου Thuc. 3.11 . Plato has ἰσούμενον as passive in Plat. Phaedrus 238e, and ἰσοῦσθαι as passive in Plat. Parm. 156b: cp. 581 ἰσοῦμαι.