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πλευρὰν μαραίνων can mean only that the squalor of the raiment is unwholesome for the body to which it clings. Cp. Aesch. PV 596 “νόσον”..

... “ἂ μαραίνει με”. We cannot render merely, “"marring the comeliness of thy form"” (as Ellendt, de sordibus corpus dehonestantibus).
κρατὶ ὀμματοστερεῖ, locative dat.: cp. on 313.

ἀκτένιστος: Her. 7.208 (the Lacedaemonians before Thermopylae) “τοὺς μὲν δὴ ὥρα γυμναζομένους τῶν ἀνδρῶν, τοὺς δὲ τὰς κόμας κτενιζομένους”. The “κτείς” was usu. of boxwood, ivory, or metal.

ᾁσσεται: Il. 6.510 “ἀμφὶ δὲ χαῖται ι ὤμοις ἀΐσσονται”.


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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 596
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.208
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.510
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