παρείκοι, impers., here=“σχολὴ εἴη”: Thuc. 3. 1“προσβολαὶ...ἐγίγνοντο... ὅπῃ παρείκοι.” ἑνὸς κρατῶ λόγου, ‘I have the power (i.e., leisure) to say only one thing.’ Cp. O. T. 409“ἴσ᾽ ἀντιλέξαι: τοῦδε γὰρ κἀγὼ κρατῶ”.—Not, ‘lay hold upon’ one saying, i.e., ‘take my stand upon’ it.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
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