ἑπτὰ ναυσὶ, the ‘sociative’ use of the dat., to denote attendant circumstance: cp. El. 704“ἕκτος ἐξ Αἰτωλίας” | “ξανθαῖσι πώλοις”. Xen. An. 3. 2. 11“ἐλθόντων...Περσῶν...παμπληθεῖ στόλῳ”. The poet follows Il. 2. 718“τῶν δὲ Φιλοκτήτης ἦρχεν, τόξων ἐὺ εἰδώς”, | “ἑπτὰ νεῶν”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
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