διπλῆν μὲν … διπλῆν δὲ: epanaphora (cp. Ant. 200 n.). The “χάρις” will be “διπλῆ” because he will have rescued Philoctetes, and also forsaken the Atreidae. Here he thinks of his father as still living: cp. n. on 1209 f.
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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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