ὅρα με λείπων, like his utterances in 653 and 656, is left unfinished, —Theseus striking in: sc. “μὴ ἐκείνοις προδῷς”. Taken as a sentence, the words could mean only “"see that"” (not “"how"”) “"you are leaving me."” The conj. ὁρᾶν (for δρᾶν), adopted by Nauck and Wecklein, would be an echo of “ὅρα”: it is not only quite needless, but bad, because here it would give an angry tone, as such echoes usually do in trag.; see on O. T. 548 f. The case of “οἶσθα...οἶδα” 656 is different.
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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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