ἀρεῖσθε: Ai. 75 n. The ἐμῆς in L (where “τῆσδ᾽” perh. preceded “τοῖσδ᾽”) gives some colour to the conjecture “τῆς” (or “τοῖς”) “δὲ γῆς”: yet τοῖς δ᾽ ἐμοῖς seems right. Oedipus is following the train of thought in which benefits to Attica are bound up with retribution for his own wrongs (92); and he thus gives the Chorus another pledge that their interest is one with his. With “ἐμοῖς, τῇδε μὲν” is best in 459: with “γῆς, τῇδε τῇ” would have been fitter.
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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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