ὦ φέγγος...τό τ̓ κ.τ.λ. For a voc. thus combined with a nom. (and art.), cp. 986: Ai. 861（“ὦ”) “κλειναί τ᾽ Ἀθῆναι καὶ τὸ σύντροφον γένος.” ἐλπίδων ἄπιστον, not credited by my hopes,— such that my hopes could not have believed it possible. Cp. 1067: Ant. 847“φίλων ἄκλαυτος” (=“οὐ κλαιομένη ὑπὸ φίλων”), and n.: El. 1214“ἄτιμος...τοῦ τεθνηκότος” (=“οὐ τιμωμένη ὑπὸ τοῦ τ.”). So “ἐλπίδων ἄπιστον”=“οὐ πιστευόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἐλπίδων”. This is better than to take it as=“ἐλπίδων πίστιν οὐκ ἔχον”, in the sense, ‘not having the pledge, assurance, given by hopes,’ ‘not warranted’ by them (like “ἀνήνεμος χειμώνων”, O. C. 677 n.).— οἰκούρημα, as having guarded the place while he slept. So a watch-dog is called “οἰκουρός” in Vesp. 970: cp. below, 1328. For the periphrasis cp. El. 417 f. “πατρὸς...ὁμιλίαν”: Eur. Alc. 606“ἀνδρῶν Φεραίων εὐμενὴς παρουσία”.
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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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