ἀνάξιον μὲν σοῦ, too good for thee: cp. “οὐκ ἴσος” as=‘greater,’ “οὐχ ὅμο<*>ος” as=‘more important’: O. T. 810 n. Wakefield cp. Phorm. 2. 2. 28 te indignas seque dignas contumelias | Numquam cessavit dicere hodie. For the emphatic place of σοῦ, cp. 907 “δρᾷς” (n.). οὐδὲν ᾔδει πλὴν κ.τ.λ., i.e., ‘had no ideas’ beyond obedience to orders: a freq. phrase in Comedy ( Ar. Av. 19, Ar. Ran. 740, etc.).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
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