ἐν αὔ, ιις τρέφεται=“ἐξ ἀνέμων τρέφεται” (schol.). With “τρέφεσθαι”, the prep. ἐν usu. denotes the surroundings of the “τροφή”, as Plat. Theaet.p. 175 D “ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ...τεθραμμένου”: but it can also denote, as here, the aliment; id. Plat. Tim.p. 81 C “τεθραμμένης...ἐν γάλακτι”.
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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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