I have a passage in Mastronarde’s Unit 25. There were no major problems translating it (besides spending a while figuring out what a couple verbs were), but I did have one question. Here is the passage,
"ὁ Ἀριστοφάνης ἀεὶ ἐπολιτεύετο καὶ τιμῆς ἐφίετο. ὥστε τότε μετὰ Εὐνόμου νηῒ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν Σικελίαν· ἤλπιζε γὰρ πεῖσαι τὸν Διονύσιον [“Dionysius,”tyrant of Syracuse] κηδεστὴν [“kinsman by marriage”] μὲν γενέσθαι Εὐαγόρᾳ [“Evagoras,” ruler of Cyprus], πολέμιον δὲ Λακεδαιμονίοις, φίλον δὲ καὶ σύμμαχον τῇ πόλει τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ. καὶ πολλοὶ κίνδυνοι [“dangers”] ἦσαν πρὸς τὴν θάλατταν καὶ τοὺς πολεμίους, ἀλλ’ ὅμως [“nevertheless”] ταῦτα ἔπραττε, καὶ τέλος ἔπεισε Διονύσιον μὴ πέμψαι τριήρεις ἃς τότε παρεσκευάσατο Λακεδαιμονίοις.
I placed μὲν in red and δὲ in blue, so they would be easier to see.
Does μὲν affect each δὲ after it?