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εἰ … ἔχοι is an abstract statement of the condition: — "Supposing him to have tendance, she is content." For optat. in protasis, with pres. ind. in apodosis, cp.

“εἰ γὰρ ἀφέλοι τις τοῦ βίου τὰς ἡδονάς,
καταλείπετ᾽ οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ τεθνηκέναι

”

Antiphanes fr. incert. 51 (Bothe p. 412)
, "supposing one takes away...then nothing is left."

τροφὴν, "tendance": see on 345: cp. 1614.


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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