Since πάτρας must clearly go with both verbs, it would seem that, aided by ἐξέωσε, the poet has used ἀπεσύλησεν with the constr. of “ἀπεστέρησεν”. Elsewhere we find only “ἀποσυλᾶν τί τινος”, to strip a thing from a man (cp. 922), or “ἀποσυλᾶν τινά τι”, to strip a man of a thing. We cannot here take πάτρας as gen. of the person robbed, (“"snatched me from my country,"”) since ἐξέωσε implies that the expeller is within the country. Nor could we well read πάτραν (“"took my country from me"”).
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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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