εἰς φῶς, opp. to “κατὰ σκότον” (578): cp. 1353: El. 639“οὐδὲ πᾶν ἀναπτύξαι πρέπει” | “πρὸς φῶς”: O. T. 1229“εἰς τὸ φῶς φανέι”: fr. 832 “πάντ᾽ ἐκκαλύπτων ὁ χρόνος εἰς τὸ φῶς ἄγει”. Yet Nauck has ejected “εἰς φῶς” from the text, and conjecturally substituted “σαφῶς”. He wishes also to replace “λέξει” by “χρῄζει”. But for the fut. cp. O.C. 114 “ἕως ἂν ἐκμάθω” | “τίνας λόγους ἐροῦσιν”. So here “λέξει” = “μέλλει λέξειν”.—For καί … τε cp. 421.
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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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