ἑκὼν αὐτὸς, a pleonasm (used also by Soph. Ph. 476), like, ‘of thine own free will.’ The oracle had made the consent of Ph. a condition (612): the use of fraud was an unauthorised device of Odysseus (103).
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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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