μέγα φρονοῦντας ἐπί: see note on E. 45.
χρημάτων . . . κρείττους, ‘superior to considerations of money,’ lit. ‘stronger than money’; similarly χρημάτων ἥσσων (Theopomp. ap. Athen. 252. 6) is ‘a slave to money’.
τοιαύτας ὑπερβολὰς ἔχειν εἰπεῖν, ‘can use such extravagant language about themselves.’ For ὑπερβολή see note on E. 1.
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