αὖ, as at 732 ff., 782 ff. τὸν ἄνω κύκλον, the vault of the sky (“τὸν κύκλον πάντα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ”, Her. 1. 131): cp. Au. 1715 “ὀσμὴ δ᾽ ἀνωνόμαστος ἐς βάθος κύκλου” | “χωρεῖ”.—Not, ‘the orb of the sun’ (“ἡλίου κύκλος”, Ant. 416, fr. 668).
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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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