τοῦδε … τοῦτον: cp. 1331, 1434 f., 1437. ὁ στέφανος, fig.: cp. Eur. Hec. 660“οὐδεὶς στέφανον ἀνθαιρήσεται”, no one will take the palm (for misery) in her stead. Helenus had declared that the victory would belong jointly to Philoctetes and Neoptolemus, as the latter says at 1335.
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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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