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τοὐπιόντος possessive, ἁρπάσαι epexegetic: belonging to the first comer, for him to seize.

τό γ᾽ αἴνιγμ᾽ οὐχὶ τοὐπιόντος ἦν
ἀνδρὸς διειπεῖν

(n.).


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    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 393
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