κίνει: a word used esp. of sacrilege: Her. 6.134 “κινήσοντά τι τῶν ἀκινήτων” (in a temple): Thuc. 4.98 “ὕδωρ...κινῆσαι” (to profane, by secular use, water reserved for sacrifices). μόνον δέ, sc. “κίνει.” ἐπὶ κέρδεσιν, i.e., with a view to receiving money from the Thebans for persuading me to bury Polyneices. So Oed. (O. T. 388) calls the seer, “δόλιον ἀγύρτην, ὅστις ἐν τοῖς κέρδεσιν ι μόνον δέδορκε”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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