λέγειν, infin. for imper. (O. C. 481 n.); not depending on “δεῖ” in 54.— “Ἀχιλλέως, ˘¯¯”. The “ε” suffers synizesis again in 364, 582, 1066, 1237, 1298, 1312: though not in 4, 50, 241, 260, 1220, 1433. τόδ᾽ οὐχὶ κλεπτέον: lit., ‘this thing’ (his parentage) ‘must not be represented falsely,’—i.e., the truth must not be hidden. “κλέπτειν τι” can mean, ‘to do (or speak) a thing fraudulently’: Ai. 189“κλέπτουσι μύθους”, they speak false words. In Tr. 437“μὴ...ἐκκλέψῃς λόγον”= ‘do not keep back the story’; but the simple “κλέπτειν” could not literally express this.—“κρυπτέον” is a tame conjecture.
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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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