νῦν μὲν … ὅταν δὲ: i.e., ‘beware lest, though now thou art facile, yet,’ etc.: cp. n. on 503. εὐχερὴς, easy-going (cp. 875): τις gives a slightly contemptuous tone; cp. Aesch. P. V. 696“πρῴ γε στενάζεις καὶ φόβου πλέα τις εἶς”. For its position, cp. Soph. Ai. 29“καί μοί τις ὀπτήρ”.— παρῇς, as a spectator who is not yet required to make any personal sacrifice. Not from “παρίημι”, as = ‘comply.’
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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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