ἤ που: cp. 215. Cavallin reads ἦ που with a note of interrogation after “τόπων”: but they do not doubt that it comes from one of the two quarters. τῇδ᾽ … τῇδε: O. T. 857 n. The Attic form seems warranted by the colloquial tone; then, with “ἐτύμα”, we return to lyric Doricism. τόπων with “τῇδε”: O. T. 108“ποῦ γῆς;” βάλλει: the fuller phrase in Ant. 1187“καί με φθόγγος”... | “βάλλει δἰ ὤτων”. So “βάλῃ”, simply, of smell, ib. 412. ἐτύμα, real,—not due to a hallucination of the senses. Cp. Theocr. 15. 82 (with ref. to painted figures), “ὡς ἔτυμ᾽ ἑστάκαντι καὶ ὡς ἔτυμ᾽ ἐνδινεῦντι” (‘move in the dance’), | “ἔμψυχ̓, οὐκ ἐνυφαντά”. Elsewhere the Attic fem. is “ἔτυμος” ( Helen. 351, Ar. Pax 114).
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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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