ἐλἐησον: cp. on 307 ff. παρῇς σαυτοῦ βρ. ὄνειδος, allow men to have ground for reproaching thee: a poet. modification of the more usual constr., “παρῇς σεαυτὸν βροτοῖς ὀνειδίζειν” (as Plat. Phaedo 101C “παρεὶς ἀποκρίνασθαι τοῖς... σοφωτέροις”). So oft. “ὄνειδος καταλείπειν. ” ἐκκλέψας=“ἐξαπατήσας”, as in 55 (n.): not, ‘having stolen me out of Lemnos.’
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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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