τοιάδ̓, ἵν̓, ‘such that in it’: “ἵν̓”=“ἐν ᾗ” (for “τοιόσδε...ὅς”, see O. C. 1353). Cp. Eur. fr. 183 “νέμων τὸ πλεῖστον ἡμέρας” “τούτῳ μέρος”, | “ἵν᾽ αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ τυγχάνει βέλτιστος ὤν”, where “ἵν̓”=“ἐν ᾧ”. ἡλίου διπλῆ … ἐνθάκησις, lit., ‘a twofold means of sitting in the sun.’ Cp. Probl. 5 § 36 “ἑστηκότες ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ”: ib. 16 § 1 “ἐὰν ἐν ἡλίῳ τεθῶσι”. So “θακεῖν ἐν” (or “ἐνθακεῖν”) “ἡλίῳ” could mean, ‘to sit in the sun’; and the genit. in “ἡλίου ἐνθάκησις” is objective, corresponding to the dat. with the verb. This is better than to make it a gen. of quality, as if the phrase meant, ‘a sunny seat in (the cave).’ The morning sun could be enjoyed at the seaward mouth of the cave, which had a s. or S. E. aspect (cp. 1457); while the afternoon sun fell on the other entrance, looking N. or N. W. ἀμφιτρῆτος, ‘pierced at both ends,’ ‘tunnelled’: perh. suggested by Eur. Cycl. 707“δἰ ἀμφιτρῆτος τῆσδε προσβαίνων πέτρας” (so Kirchhoff for “ποδί”). This pass. sense of “ἀμφιτρής” (“ἀμφοτέρωθεν τετρημένον”, schol.), in which “ἀμφίτρητος” would be normal, cannot be illustrated by “σιδηροκμής” (‘slain with the sword,’ Soph. Ai. 325), or “δορικμής” Aesch. Ch. 365), since those adjectives=‘succumbing to’ the sword, etc. (from the poet. sense of “οἱ καμόντες”, etc.). But “βοτοῖς σιδηροκμῆσιν” in the former passage illustrates the use of “ἀμφιτρής”, properly masc. or fem., as a neuter adj. αὐλίου, as 954, 1087: cp. 30 n.
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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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