τί δ᾽ ἔστιν; cp. 753, 917, O. T. 319.It does not seem likely that Soph. would have preferred to write τί ἔστιν (with hiatus), though several recent editors give this: cp. 100 n.
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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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