ἐνθάδ᾽ ἥκων, brought to that point.—provoked so strongly: cp. O. T. 687“ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκεις”: ib. 1158 “ἀλλ᾽ εἰς τόδ᾽ ἥξεις.” οὐ δύσοργος: as his mother speaks of his “ἀγανοφροσύνη” ( Od. 11. 203). πρὸς ἁξήκουσεν with δηχθείς, not with ἠμείψατο. “πρός” with acc., as=‘in view of,’ can always represent the cause of a feeling; cp. Tr. 1211“ἀλλ᾽ εἰ φοβεῖ πρὸς τοῦτο.” ἃ ἐξήκουσεν, the taunts which had been addressed to him (382): here “ἐξ” merely strengthens the notion of ‘being reviled,’ as in “ἐξονειδίζω”: cp. 676.
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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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