After some more digging, the data seems to point to the
suggestion of D. Lembo, namely that what's missing is
TOUTOU not XRONOU/KAIROU; and TOUTOU, it seems to me,
would more likely be Neut than Masc. Here's what I found...
Smyth makes the following observations:
"Herodotus has ES hO, hEWS hOU, ES hOU _until_..."
Para 2383C.N.
"Demonstrative adverbs in the principal clause often
correspond to the relative conjunctions, as...
hEWS...TEWS (MEXRI TOUTOU)..." Para 2384.
Demosthenes writes (De Corona, para 48 [18,48; Loeb
Demonsthenes vol II, p. 48]):
MEXRI TOUTOU LASQENHS FILOS WNOMAZETO, hEWS PROUDWKEN
OLUNQON...
He repeats the same phrase two more times.
Solon writes (Book i: Elegies 13,35 [Loeb Greek Elegies
and Iambus I, p. 128]; though I think this is less
applicable because of the obvious antecedant of
TOUTOU.):
hH DHN H TAUTHN DOCAN hEKASTOS EXEI [35] PRIN TI
PAQEIN: TOTE D' AUTIK' ODURETAI ACRI DE TOUTOU
XASKONTES KOUFAIS ELPISI TERPOMEQA...
What think ye, mates ?????
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