πτωχῷ. The poet. tendency was often to treat adjectives with three terminations as if they had only two. Cp. the Homeric “πουλὺν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρήν” （Il. 10.27): “θῆλυς ἐέρση” （Od. 5.467), “ἡδὺς ἀϋτμή” （Od. 12.369), “πικρὸν...ὀδμήν” （Od. 4.406): below, 1460 (cp. O. T. 384 n.): Tr. 207 “κοινὸς...κλαγγά”: so ib. 478 “πατρῷος”, and 533 “θυραῖος”: Eur. Bacch. 598 “δίου βροντᾶς”, 992 “ἴτω δίκα φανερός, ἴτω”: Helen 623 “ὦ ποθεινὸς ἡμέρα”. τηλικοῦτος is fem. only here and El. 614. The point of “τηλικοῦτος” is that her marriageable age is passing by in these perilous wanderings. There is a similar thought in Electra's complaint (El. 962). Cp. 1116, 1181.
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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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