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[177] ἀκτὰν πρὸς for πρὸς ἀκτάν, since the attributive gen. ἑσπέρου θεοῦ is equiv. to an adj. agreeing with ἀκτάν: cp. Soph. OC 84ἕδρας πρώτων ἐφ᾽ ὑμῶν,Soph. OC 126ἄλσος ἐς ... κορᾶν”: Soph. El. 14τοσόνδ᾽ ἐς ἥβης”: so Aesch. PB 653, Aesch. Seven 185: Eur. Orest. 94. ἑσπέρου θεοῦ: as the Homeric Erebos is in the region of sunset and gloom (Hom. Od. 12.81), and Hades is “ἐννυχίων ἄναξSoph. OC 1559.

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