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παντὸς with λόγου δικαίου: “"thou who wouldst borrow a crafty device from any plea of right"”—as he here uses the “λόγος δίκαιος” about duty to friends and fatherland for the purpose of enticing Oedipus back. Cp.

“ἔξοιδα γάρ νιν παντὸς ἂν λόγου κακοῦ
γλώσσῃ θιγόντα

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: Eur. I. A. 97 “πάντα προσφέρων λόγον”. This is better than to make παντὸς neut., taking λόγου δ. as defining gen. with μηχάνημα: “"thou who from anything wouldst borrow a crafty device consisting in a fair plea"”: for which, however, we might cp. Eur. Hec. 248 “πολλῶν λόγων εὑρήμαθ᾽ ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν”, Ant. 312 “ἐξ ἄπαντος...κερδαίνειν”, and below, 807.

ἂν φέρων=“ὃς φέροις ἄν”: as in Ph. 407 f. (quoted above) “ἂν...θιγόντα”=“ὅτι θίγοι ἄν”. Dem. or. 18 § 258 “πόλλ᾽ ἂν ἔχων ἕτερ᾽ εἰπεῖν περὶ αὐτῆς παραλείπω”,=“ὅτε ἔχοιμι ἄν”. Cp. O. T. 11 n.


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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    • Sophocles, Antigone, 312
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