ξένον would apply to any one living in a country not his own: cp. 562. Oed. is not merely an exile, but a wandering beggar. The rhythm makes it better to take ὄντα with “ξένον” only, and to connect ἀλήτην with χωροῦντα. ἐπὶ μιᾶς πρ., in dependence on (cp. on 148), but without conscious reference to the metaphor of an anchor: cp. Lys. or. 31 § 9 (of a “μέτοικος”) “ἐπὶ προστάτου ᾠκει”, he lived under the protection of a citizen as his patron (so Lycurg. Leocr. § 145 “οἰκήσας...ἐπὶ προστάτου”).
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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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