ἀδάκρυτον, predicate, with proleptic force: no friend mourns my fate, (and so it remains) unwept. Soph. has several instances of the predicative adj. thus added to a subst. which has the art. and possessive pron.; as O. T. 671 “τὸ γὰρ σόν, οὐ τὸ τοῦδ᾽, ἐποικτίρω στόμα ι ἐλεινόν” (n.): El. 1143 “τῆς ἐμῆς πάλαι τροφῆς ι ἀνωφελήτου”. Cp. 791.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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