ὦ ποὺς πούς: cp. 786. τί σε τεύξω ;=“τί σε ποιήσω, τί σοι χρήσομαι” ; ‘what shall I do with thee,’—how endure the pain,—now that my doom is otherwise so much worse? μετόπιν, used by Rh. 4. 1764, occurs nowhere else in class. Greek, but is related to the epic “μετόπισθεν” (used by Eur. fr. 449) as the Attic “κατόπιν” to the epic “κατόπισθεν”.
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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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