τᾶς σᾶς ἃ πέπονθ᾽. The objection to pointing at σᾶς and understanding “ἐστί” with ἀναιδῆ (as Herm. proposed) is that ἀνοίξῃς requires an object. We should then have to understand “ἀλγηδόνα”. The conject. τᾶς σᾶς, πέπον, ἔργ᾽ ἀναιδῆ has found undeserved favour. The address “πέπον” occurs about 18 times in Homer and the hymns, and always marks familiarity: there is a touch of household intimacy in it, as when Polyphemus says to his ram, “κριὲ πέπον” （Od. 9.447). It is absurdly out of place here (cp. 521 “ὦ ξένοι”, 530 “ὦ ξεῖν̓”): “ὦ φίλτατε”, at 465, is different. ἔργ᾽ was inserted in the MSS. to explain that ἀναιδῆ referred to his own acts.
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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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