ἐκ τούτοιν … σκήπτροιν, by means of these two supports,—the art. being omitted, as 471 “τοῦτο χεῦμ̓”. This is simpler than to construe, “"with the help of these (girls) as supports."” (For “τούτοιν”, as fem. dual, cp. on 445.) We should then have to take it as a case of the pron. assimilated to the gender of the predicate (see on “ταύτην...παῦλαν” 88). ἐκ refers to the “σκῆπτρα” as an antecedent condition of his walking. Essentially the same use, though under slightly different phases, appears in 807 “ἐξ ἅπαντος”: Tr. 875 “（ βέβηκεν ） ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός”: Ph. 91 “ἐξ ἑνὸς ποδός”: El. 742 “ὠρθοῦθ᾽ ὁ τλήμων ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δίφρων”. σκήπτροιν: cp. 1109:
.“ἥδ᾽ ἀντὶ τολλῶν ἐστί μοι παραψυχή,
πόλις, τιθήνη, βάκτρον, ἡγεμὼν ὁδοῦ
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