παρηγγύα cannot mean "pledged,""promised" (ἠγγυᾶτο), but only "passed the watchword to me," i.e. "told me, as a sign." Xen. Cyr. 3.3.58 “παρηγγύα ὁ Κῦρος σύνθημα, Ζεὺς σύμμαχος καὶ ἡγεμών”, “"C. proceeded to pass the watchword, 'Zeus'"”, etc. παρεγγυάω regularly has this sense (which sometimes passes into that of "exhorting," "encouraging" one another); or else that of "putting something into another's hand," "entrusting" it to him. The omission of the temporal augment in L and other MSS. is not a sufficient ground for adopting Herwerden's φερέγγυα ("trusty").
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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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