Note 77 — BOOK XVII
William Cowper translation · Edition 2
Ει δη που τις επουρανιος θεος εσι
Eustathius, and Clarke after him, understand an aposiopesis here, as if the speaker meant to say—what if there should be? or—suppose there should be? But the sentence seems to fall in better with what follows interpreted as above, and it is a sense of the passage not unwarranted by the opinion of other commentators. See Schaufelbergerus.