εἰκάθω: cp. O. C. 651 n.— εἰς φῶς … εἶμι, into the public gaze; cp. 581: Xen. Ages. 9. 1, where “τὸ φῶς” (‘publicity’) = “τὸ ἀεὶ ἐμφανὴς ε<*>ναι”, as opp. to “τὸ σπανίως ὁρᾶσθαι.” τῷ προσήγορος; the dat., as in Plat. Theaet. 146A “φίλους τε καὶ προσηγόρους ἀλλήλοις”: but “μηδενὸς προσήγορος” in Soph. O. T. 1437.Cp. Thuc. 6. 16“ὥσπερ δυστυχοῦντες οὐ προσαγορευόμεθα”: and the prosperous Creon's words in O. T. 596, “νῦν με πᾶς ἀσπάζεται”.
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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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