ὡς “κ.τ.λ.”: “"as purposing that Argos should either possess the Theban land in honour, or exalt Thebes to the skies"” (by the glory of having defeated Argos). ὡς … Ἄργος … καθέξον ἢ … βιβῶν, acc. absol. in the personal constr., as O. T. 101 “ὡς τόδ᾽ αἷμα χειμάζον πόλιν”: Thuc. 6.24 “ἔρως ἐνέπεσε τοῖς πᾶσιν...ἐκπλεῦσαι...ὡς ἢ καταστρεψομένοις ἐφ᾽ ἃ ἔπλεον, ἢ οὐδὲν ἂν σφαλεῖσαν μεγάλην δύναμιν”, in the belief that they would reduce Sicily, or that at all events a great armament could suffer no disaster. Eur. Ion 964 “ΠΑΙΔ. σοὶ δ᾽ ἐς τί δόξ᾽ εἴσῆλθεν ἐκβαλεῖν τέκνον;—ΚΡΕΟΥΣΑ. ὡς τὸν θεὸν σώσοντα τόν γ᾽ αὑτοῦ γόνον”.
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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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