ἤρασσον: cp. Ai. 725“ὀνείδεσιν” | “ἤρασσον ἔνθεν κἄνθεν”: for the lit. sense, O. T. 1276. κακοῖς τοῖς πᾶσιν: the art. properly means, ‘with all the taunts that exist’: cp. Tr. 716“φθείρει τὰ πάντα κνώδαλ̓.” οὐδὲν ἐνδεὲς ποιούμενος, making (on my part) nothing deficient, i.e. leaving nothing unsaid that occurred to me. For this use of the midd. “ποιοῦμαι”, cp. O. C. 1144“οὐ γὰρ λόγοισι τὸν βίον” “σπουδάζομεν” | “λαμπρὸν ποεῖσθαι.” εἰ … ἀφαιρήσοιτο: he said, (“δεινόν ἐστιν”) “εἰ ἀφαιρήσεται”: cp. 353 n. For the double acc., cp. Eur. Andr. 613“ἀφείλου πατέρας ...τέκνα”. Since the idea of the taker's interest is usually implied, the middle voice of this verb is more freq. than the active.
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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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