ἃ … λῷσθ᾽ ὁρῶ τελούμενα (pres. part.), ‘what I see is in the way of being accomplished with the best results’ for us: i.e., what promises such results, if it be done. The pres. part., implying that the action is already in train, suits the speaker's hopeful tone. I should not, then, take τελούμενα as fut. part. with pass. sense; esp. as there is no clear example in Attic of “τελοῦμαι” as fut. pass., while “τελούμενος” as pres. part. pass. is frequent (e.g. O. T. 797, El. 1344).
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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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