Νύμφαι τ̓ “κ.τ.λ.” Next to the “μέλαθρον” itself, he naturally names the elemental deities of the region from which he obtained water, fuel, and the soothing “φύλλον” (292 ff., 649). Cp. Il. 20. 8“νυμφάων, αἵ τ᾽ ἄλσεα καλὰ νέμονται” | “καὶ πηγὰς ποταμῶν καὶ πίσεα ποιήεντα” (grassy water-meadows). Ap. Rh. 2. 821 “νύμφαι ἑλειονόμοι”.
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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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