αὕτη, subject (instead of “τοῦτο”, see on 88), τίς τέρψις predicate: ἄκοντας object to φιλεῖν: What pleasure is this, —that people should be hospitable to one against one's inclination? Thuc. 3.12 “τίς οὖν αὕτη ἢ φιλία ἐγίγνετο ἢ ἐλευθερία πιστή;” φιλεῖν, Il. 6.15 “πάντας γὰρ φιλέεσκεν ὁδῷ ἔπι οἰκία ναίων”: Od. 8.42 “ὄφρα ξεῖνον ἐνὶ μεγάροισι φιλέωμεν”. So often “ἀγαπάω”. Better thus than: “"what joy is it (for thee) to caress me against my will?"” The illustration (776 ff.) shows that ἄκοντας refers to the reluctance of Oed., not to the constraint put by the oracle on the Thebans. τοσαύτη was a mere blunder.
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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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