Implied participle in X.An.1.5.14?

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…ἔτυχε γὰρ ὕστερος προσιὼν καὶ τάξις αὐτῷ ἑπομένη τῶν ὁπλιτῶν…

Is ὕστερος in Nominative case because the participle ὤν (of εἰμί which is a linking verb) is implied here?

Thanks! —Mitch

P.S. And another question. I’m using a Windows computer and when I try to type Greek in a post for this forum, the accents and breathings don’t appear. For example, to type εἰμί in this post, I selected the Greek Polytonic keyboard option and pressed the keys e’imqi but this just put ειμι not εἰμί into my post. So I had to switch to Notepad, type e’imqi to get εἰμί and copy/paste this into my post. Is there a setting somwhere in this forum so that the Windows Greek Polytonic keyboard will work properly?

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ὕστερος is nominative because it agrees with the implied subject of the parenthetical, Πρόξενος. It’s predicative, qualifying the verbal unit ἔτυχε προιὼν: “he happened to be advancing later/towards the rear.”

See Smyth § 1042:

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Ah of course, thanks.

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At Thuc.1.3.3 a papyrus (P.Oxy.3878) has ὕστερος but the medieval tradition has ὕστερον, adverbial (πολλῷ γὰρ ὕστερον ἔτι καὶ τῶν Τρωικῶν γενόμενος. Modern editors have all printed ὕστερον there, but adjectival -ος is probably right, cf. Thuc.1.14.1 and this Xenophon passage, and for corruption to the adverb e.g. Thuc.1.91.5.