εὖ ζῇ, lives prosperously, as “κακῶς ζῆν”=to live unhappily ( El. 354). So Pind. ( Pind. P. 4. 131) calls festivity “εὐζῴας ἄωτον”. But in Soph. O. C. 1535“εὖ...οἰκῇ”= ‘lives aright.’ τὸν βίον, the fortunes of one's life: the subject to λάθῃ is “ὁ βίος”. Cp. El. 207（“χεῖρες”) “αἳ τὸν ἐμὸν εἷλον βίον” | “πρόδοτον”.
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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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