ἐμοὶ μὲν: for “μέν” emphasising the pron. (without an answering “δέ”), cp. Ant. 11 n. ἐμπέπτωκε: cp. Philippides “Ἀργυρίου Ἀφανισμός” 1 “ἀλλ᾽ ἔλεος ἐμπέπτωκέ τις μοι τῶν ὅλων”. Soph. has used the acc. with this verb in Soph. O. C. 942(n.).— οὐ νῦν πρῶτον: Soph. El. 1049“πάλαι δέδοκται ταῦτα κοὐ ϝεωστί μοι”.
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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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