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εὐσοίας, used by Soph. also in the

“ἐπεὶ δὲ βλάστοι, τῶν τριῶν μίαν λαβεῖν
εὔσοιαν ἀρκεῖ

”

Amphitryon (fr. 119)
, quoted by the schol., who describes it as the reading “ἐν τοῖς ἀναγκαιοτέροις τῶν ἀντιγράφων ῾τηε βεττερ ξοπιες᾿ … ὃ καὶ οἱ ὑπομνηματισάμενοι ἀξιοῦσιν” (the Alexan drian commentators). It does not occur except in Soph.: but Theocr. 24. 8 has “εὔσοα τέκνα” ("safe and sound").


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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