σέ τ᾽ αὐτὸν seems preferable to σὲ καὐτὸν, since “τε … καὶ” was usual in such formulas with “αὐτός”, cp. 462, 559, 952, 1009, 1125: though τε was sometimes omitted when a third clause followed, as Antiph. or. 5 § 11 “ἐξώλειαν αὑτῷ καὶ γένει καὶ οἰκίᾳ τῇ σῇ ἐπαρώμενον”. I hardly think that θεῶν can be right. It would be partitive, “"of the gods, the allseeing Sun."” When a partitive gen. stands thus, it ought to be emphatic, as in El. 1485 “τί γὰρ βροτῶν ἂν σὺν κακοῖς μεμιγμένων ι θνήσκειν ὁ μέλλων” etc. But here there is no stress on “"gods"” as opp. to other beings. I should prefer θεὸς, from which θεῶν may have arisen by the carelessness of a copyist who connected it with γένος.
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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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