ἦ γὰρ in eager question: 322, 654, O. C. 64. πόνου, of warfare, the peculiarly Homeric use (as Il. 11. 601“εἰσορόων πόνον αἰπὺν ἰῶκά τε δακρυόεσσαν”), also freq. in Herod. (9. 27 “ἐν τοῖσι Τρωϊκοῖσι πόνοισι”): cp. Eur. Cycl. 107“ἐξ Ἰλίου τε κἀπὸ Τρωϊκῶν πόνων”.
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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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