ἔνθ̓=“ἐκεῖσε ὅποι”, as in El. 1099“ὁδοιποροῦμεν ἔνθα χρῄζομεν”: similarly “ἔνθα”=“ἐκεῖσε ὅπου” in O. T. 796“ἔφευγον, ἔνθα μήποτ᾽ ὀψοίμην.” Μοῖρα: some write “μοῖρα”, as in 331; but the epithet “ἡ μεγάλη” seems here to imply definite personification. φίλων: Heracles and Neoptolemus. —The πανδαμάτωρ δαίμων is clearly Zeus, whose ordinances Heracles came to announce (1415). The epithet is fitting; for the stubborn purpose of Ph. has been overruled; and Troy is soon to fall. Cp. Soph. Ant. 605 ff.
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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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