αὐτόν should not be changed to αὐτός, which would be too emphatic here. He speaks in a careless tone. The following νιν, though it was not necessary, affords no argument against “αὐτόν”.
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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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