τὸν αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ: see on 930. ἔθηκας ἄπολιν … καὶ φορεῖν, didst make me homeless, and cause me to wear: so in Pind. Pyth. 1.40 “῾θυοτεδ βψ σξηνειδεωιν̓ ἐθελήσαις ταῦτα νόῳ τιθέμεν εὔανδρόν τε χώραν”, "mayest thou take these things into thy providence, and make the land happy in her sons." Cp. also the double sense of “ποιεῖν” Thuc. 2.29 “ὁ Νυμφόδωρος τήν τε τοῦ Σιτάλκου ξυμμαχίαν ἐποίησε καὶ Σάδοκον τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Ἀθηναῖον” ("brought about" ... "made"). The constr. of “τίθημι” with acc. and inf. is not rare in poetry: cp. Eur. Hec. 357, Her. 990, Med. 717, etc. ἄπολιν: cp. 208. ταύτας without “τάς”: cp. 629.
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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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