οὖρος, a fair wind, meaning here an opportune moment: schol. “καιρὸς ἐπιτήδειος”. The metaphor is a fitting one for sailors. When “οὖρος” is fig., it more oft.= ‘a prosperous course’ ( Tr. 815).—This is better than to take the word literally, as if the wind, which had been adverse (640), had just changed.
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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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