εἰ καὶ δυνήσει γ᾽, yes, if (besides having the wish to please them) you shall also have the power. καὶ goes closely with δυνήσει: cp. O. T. 283 “εἰ καὶ τρίτ᾽ ἐστί”. Such cases must be carefully distinguished from those in which εἰ καί form a single expression; see O. T. p. 296.
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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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