οὐδέποτέ γ̓: Ar. Pax 109“μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον οὐδέποτε ζῶντός γ᾽ ἐμοῦ.” πᾶν … κακόν: cp. El. 615“χωρεῖν ἂν εἰς πᾶν ἔργον.” γῆς τόδ᾽ αἰπεινὸν βάθρον= “τόδε γῆς αἰπεινῆς βάθρον” (952), this pedestal of (=consisting in) a steep land, i.e. the island, with its sheer cliffs, on which he is standing. Cp. Ai. 859“<*> γῆς ἱρὸν οἰκείας πέδον” | “Σαλαμῖνος, ὦ πατρῷον ἑστίας βάθρον” (cp. ib. 135), where, as here, the whole island is the “βάθρον”.
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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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