ἐκ τέχνης: for “ἐκ”=‘by means of,’ cp. 563, 710, El. 279“ἐκ δόλου”. Ant. 475“ὀπτὸν ἐκ πυρὸς περισκελῆ.” πράσσειν: for the inf., cp. 80: for the repetition of the word from 87, cp. O. C. 554 n., Ant. 76 n. οὔτ᾽ αὐτὸς κ.τ.λ.: instead of “οὔτε” “γὰρ αὐτὸς ἔφυν, οὔτε ὁ ἐκφύσας” (“ἔφυ”): cp. O. C. 461“ἐπάξιος μέν, Οἰδίπους, κατοικτίσαι”, | “αὐτός τε παῖδές θ᾽ αἵδ̓.” οὔθ̓, ὡς φασίν, οὑκφύσας: as in Il. 9. 312Achilles says, “ἐχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Ἀΐδαο πύλῃσιν”, | “ὅς χ᾽ ἕτερον μὲν κεύθῃ ἐνὶ φρεσίν, ἄλλο δὲ εἴπῃ”: and in I. A. 926 “ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐν ἀνδρὸς εὐσεβεστάτου τραφεὶς” | “Χείρωνος ἔμαθον τοὺς τρόπους ἁπλοῦς ἔχειν”.
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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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