ἔμπολιν is Musgrave's certain correction of the MS. “ἔμπαλιν”: cp. 1156 “σοὶ μὲν ἔμπολιν ι οὐκ ὄντα, συγγενῆ δέ”, not thy fellow-citizen, indeed, but thy kinsman. The word does not occur elsewhere. “"I will establish him in the land,"” says Theseus, “"as a member of our State"”: he who now is “ἄπολις” (cp. 208) shall in Attica have the full protection of our laws. ἔμπαλιν has been rendered (1) “"on the contrary,"” i.e. “"so far from rejecting him"”: so the schol., and this version is alone correct: (2) “"once more,"” i.e. renewing the alliance between the states,— Paley: (3) “"in return"” for his benefits,— Ellendt. Campbell objects that with “ἔμπολιν” “"the opposition of the clauses would not be sufficiently marked by “δέ"””: but for δέ=“ἀλλά” cp. Antiph. or. 5 §§ 4, 5 “αἰτήσομαι ὑμᾶς οὐχ ἅπερ οἱ πολλοί..., τάδε δὲ δέομαι ὑμῶν”: Thuc. 4.86 “οὐκ ἐπὶ κακῷ, ἐπ᾽ ἐλευθερώσει δὲ τῶν Ἑλλήνων παρελήλυθα”.
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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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