[273] Comp. Soph. O. T. 1086, εἴπερ ἐγὼ μάντις εἰμὶ καὶ κατὰ γνώμαν ἴδρις. ‘Opto,’ I embrace its (fate's) award. Comp. “optavit locum regno” (3. 109), “externos optate duces” (8. 503), “non ego cuncta meis amplecti versibus opto” G. 2. 42, and Aesch. Ag. 1650 (according to the best reading), δεχομένοις λέγεις θανεῖν σε: τὴν τύχην δ᾽ αἱρούμεθα, in which δεχομένοις is the ordinary word for accepting an oracle or omen, and αἱρούμεθα involves a use of αἱρεῖσθαι very like this of ‘opto.’
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