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ὦ ξεῖν̓. The Ionic voc. occurs even without metrical necessity, Eur. I. T. 798 “ξεῖν̓, οὐ δικαίως”: Soph. rarely uses ξεῖνος except in voc.: 1014 n.

ὑπέρ τ᾽ ἐμοῦ=ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ τε: as O. T. 258 (where see n.), “κυρῶ τ᾽ ἐγώ”=ἐγώ τε κυρῶ: Ph. 1294. Cp. Tennyson's lines "To the Princess Frederica": “O you that were eyes and light to the King till he past away
From the darkness of life.

” Ant. 989 (of the blind Teiresias and his guide) “δὔ ἐξ ἑνὸς βλέποντε”.


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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    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 798
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    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 258
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1294
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