Take πρὸς τὸ λιπαρὲς with μηκύνῳ λόγον: “"do not wonder if with eager insistence I prolong my words to my children, now that they have appeared unexpectedly"”: πρὸς τὸ λ.=“λιπαρῶς”, as “πρὸς βίαν”=“βιαίως, πρὸς ἡδονήν” =“ἡδέως”: Ai. 38 “πρὸς καιρόν”=“καιρίως”: El. 464 “πρὸς εὐσέβειαν” (“λέγει”)=“εὐσεβῶς”. It is possible to join πρὸς τὸ λ. with θαύμαζε, as Schneidewin and others do, comparing Tr. 1211 “φοβεῖ πρὸς τοῦτο”: but such a constr. for “θαυμάζειν” is without example.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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