πεπονθότ᾽ … δεδρακότα. The agent's activities (τὰ ἔργα μου) here stand for the agent himself; and so, instead of “τοῖς ἔργοις πεπονθώς εἰμι” (cp. 873), we have “τὰ ἔργα μου πεπονθότ᾽ ἐστί”. (Cp. 74, 1604.) O. T. 1214 “γάμος: τεκνῶν καὶ τεκνούμενος” = one in which the son has become the spouse. So a particular activity of a person's mind is sometimes expressed by the active participle (neut.) of a verb to which the person himself would properly be subject: “τὸ βουλόμενον, τὸ ὀργιζόμενον τῆς γνώμης” (Thuc. 1.90, 2. 59): “τὸ δεδιός, τὸ θαρσοῦν αὐτοῦ” (1. 36).
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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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