στυγνός has greater force through its position: “"my son, king—a son whom I hate"”: cp. 1615 “σκληράν.” λόγων: for the gen. cp. 418. ἄλγιστα ἀνδρῶν,=“ἄλγιον ἢ παντὸς ἄλλου ἀνδρὸς” (“λόγων”), more reluctantly than the words of any one else. The usage is similar to that by which a Greek could say, “πυραμίδα ἀπελίπετο ἐλάσσω τοῦ πατρός” (Her. 2.134), instead of “τῆς τ. π.”, or “ἣν ὁ πατήρ”. Cp. O. T. 467 n. More often the words would mean, “ἄλγιον ἢ πᾶς ἄλλος ἀνήρ” (so “οἶμαι κάλλιστ᾽ ἀνθρώπων λέγειν”, Plat. Ion 530 C).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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