φῦναι, should be by nature: Pind. O. 9. 107“τὸ δὲ φυᾷ κράτιστον ἅπαν” (opposed to “διδακταὶ ἀρεταί”). πάντ᾽, adv.: Tr. 338 “τούτων ἔχω γὰρ πάντ᾽ ἐπιστήμην ἐγώ”: O. T. 475 n.—The merit of listening to good advice is often thus extolled: Hes. Op. 291“οὗτος μὲν πανάριστος, ὃς αὐτὸς πάντα νοήσῃ: ι ἐσθλὸς δ᾽ αὖ κἀκεῖνος, ὃς εὖ εἰπόντι πίθηται”. Her. 7.16 “ἴσον ἐκεῖνο, ὦ βασιλεῦ, παρ᾽ ἐμοὶ κέκριται, φρονέειν τε εὖ καὶ τῷ λέγοντι χρηστὰ ἐθέλειν πείθεσθαι”. Cp. pro Cluentio 31: Livy 22. 29.
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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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