ἵκῃ πρὸς τοῦτο, i.e. “πρὸς τὸ μαθεῖν”. Cp. 1365. δεῖ σ᾽ ὅπως … δείξεις: see on Ph. 54 f. “τὴν Φιλοκτήτου σε δεῖ ι ψυχὴν ὅπως λόγοισιν ἐκκλέψεις λέγων.— ᾿τράφης” suggests the inbred qualities of the race; cp. Ph. 3“κρατίστου πατρὸς Ἑλλήνων τραφείς”. For the prodelision of the augment in the 6th foot of the v., cp. Ant. 457“᾿φάνη”: Helen. 263 (“εἴθε”) “αἴσχιον εἶδος ἀντὶ τοῦ καλοῦ ᾿λαβον”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VII: The Ajax. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1907.
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