πιστεύσαντα, ‘in reliance’ upon the divine oracle, and upon the report of it given by N. (1336—1343). Though “πιστεύω” sometimes=‘obey’ ( Tr. 1228), it is unnecessary to suppose that sense here. 1377 The words τῷδε δυστήνῳ ποδί (dat. of circumstance) have a compressed dramatic force. ‘What,—go to Agamemnon,—when I bear about with me this plague which caused him to cast me forth?’
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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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