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[425] σ᾽ ἐξισώσει which shall make thee level with thy (true) self, —by showing thee to be the son of Laius, not of Polybus; —and level with thine own children, i.e. like them, the child of Iocasta, and thus at once ἀδελφὸς καὶ πατήρ (458). For σ᾽ Markland conject. ὅσ᾽, which shall be made equal for thee and for thy children: and so Porson interpreted, conjecturing ἅσσ᾽ from Agathon fr. 5 ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾽ ἂν πεπραγμένα. Nauck ingeniously conj. σ᾽ ἐξισώσει σῷ τοκεῖ καὶ σοῖς τέκνοις. But the vulgate is sound: for the παρήχησις cp. 371.

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