ἐξ ἀμφοῖν instead of “ἐξ ἀλλήλοιν”. Death is to proceed from you both: the phrase leaves it to be understood that the death which proceeds from each is for the other. To read αὑτοῖν (Blaydes) is no improvement. The plur. reflexive pron. is sometimes, indeed, so used (e.g., Isocr. or. 4 § 15 “τὰς πρὸς ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς ἔχθρας”), and Soph. has it once, Ant. 145, “καθ᾽ αὑτοῖν”=“κατ᾽ ἀλλήλοιν”, though Eustathius (1547. 29) blamed Menander for imitating that. If ἀμφοῖν fails to mark mutuality, αὑτοῖν might be taken of a double suicide.
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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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