κατ᾽ αὐτὸ τοῦτό γε, in accordance with this very thing, = ‘on this very ground’: cp. Isocr. or. 18 § 34 “οὐκ ἄξιον οὔτε κατὰ χάριν οὔτε κατ᾽ ἐπιείκειαν οὔτε κατ᾽ ἄλλο οὐδὲν ἢ κατὰ τοὺς ὅρκους περὶ αὐτῶν ψηφίσασθαι”.
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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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