Impatient for more light, Oed. asks, "Is he coming forth towards us,— so that it is really needless for thee to move?" δεῦρο denotes the goal, προσ- the direction, and ἐξ- the starting-point. δεῦρο goes with both participles, which form a single expression,="coming towards us from the abodes" implied by οἰκητός (28). Cp. Ai. 762 “ἀπ᾽ οἴκων... ἐξορμώμενος”. Other explanations are:— (1) "approaching" (δεῦρο being taken with προσστ. only) "and setting out," as a "prothysteron" for "setting out and approaching." This is impossible. (2) "Moving, and hastening, hither": but this obliterates ἐξ-, and strains ὁρμώμενον.
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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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