Instead of "ever more". Alexis in Atthis [writes]: "how Zeus casts clouds at first quietly, then more and more."[1] Anaxilas in Hours [and] Alexis in Pezonike [sc. also use the phrase].[2]
This "more" is said affirmatively, as [in] "a pirate is no more evil than a liar". But by the Skeptics it is said not positively, but negatively: as by someone who in refutation says, "it was not Scylla, any more than it was Charybdis." And sometimes it is used comparatively, as when we say "honey is more sweet than grapes"; while sometimes it is used both positively and negatively, as when we say "virtue does more good than harm." For we mean by that, that virtue does good, but does not do harm.[3]