τλημονέστατον λόγον, here=“ἀναιδέστατον”, most audacious, shameless (in Eur. Hec. 562 the same phrase=‘most courageous speech’): Soph. El. 439“εἰ μὴ τλημονεστάτη γυνὴ” | “πασῶν ἔβλαστε”: Aesch. Cho. 383“τλάμονι καὶ πανούργῳ” | “χειρί”.
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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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