παλαιὸν ἄλγημ̓, the pain which the proposal that he should return to Troy has caused to him from the first moment that he heard of it: see vv. 622, 917, 999. ὑπέμνασας without “με”: cp. 801.—“ὦ λῷστε κ.τ.λ.”: their words grieve him the more, because they have otherwise shown him so much sympathy (cp. 1121, 1163 f.). τῶν πρὶν ἐντόπων, those mentioned in 307 ff.: for “πρὶν” cp. Ant. 100“κάλλιστον”... | ...“τῶν προτέρων φάος”. The adj. here=merely ‘present in a place’ (at a given moment), as in 211, O. C. 1457: not ‘resident,’ as in O. C. 841.
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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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