ἀγῶνας ἐξιών: cp. Ai.290“ἀφορμᾷς πεῖραν”: Thuc.1. 15“στρατείας...οὐκ ἐξῄεσαν”: Dem. or. 19 § 163 “ὅτε...τὴν προτέραν ἀπῄρομεν πρεσβείαν.—οὔπω”, after οὐ, the compound negative after the simple, is normal (like “οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδέν”, etc.); not an irregular repetition, like that in 1014 (n.). ἔτλη, brought himself to do it: cp. 1070.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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