τί … ἀφήσει τέλος; “"what end (event) will (the lightning) bring forth?"” For “ἀφιέναι” as=“"to emit,"” “"produce from one's self,"” cp. Arist. Hist. An. 6. 14 “ἀφιᾶσι τὸ κύημα,...τῆς θηλείας ἀφιείσης τὸ ᾠόν”. This use, which was common, suggests how the word might be figuratively said of the storm giving birth to some disastrous issue. We need not, then, seek a correction (as “ἐφήσει” or “ἐφήξει”). μὰν, “"verily,"” here nearly=an exclamation, such as “"ah!"” Cp. on 182.
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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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