καί: and so, paratactic for ὥστε. Cf. Aesch. Theb. 647 κατάξω δ᾽ ἄνδρα τόνδε, καὶ πόλιν | ἕξει, Thuc. i. 99 χρήματα ἐτάξαντο, καὶ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ηὔξετο τὸ ναυτικὸν κτἑ. — ὥσπερ κτἑ.: marks neither an antithesis to the preceding, nor a step in advance, but only an illustration. —