[Meaning] an opportunity is calling.[1]
So Aelian said [this] about urgency: "At the instant of his pain and suffering, he did not know the road that would take him there [sc. to the god]. If he was commanded in a dream to sacrifice to someone, he still was contemptuous of these things and ignorant of them and materialistic."[2]
"At the instant of the evil came some memory of the Samothracians: for that is where the two were initiates."[3] Instead of u(ph=rxon in the dual.
And elsewhere: "I lost the use of my eyes in many tears for a moment."[4] And elsewhere Aelian [writes]: "and our very power is balanced on a razor's edge."[5]