θανάσιμον, proleptic, as in Ai. 516“καὶ μητέρ᾽ ἄλλη μοῖρα τὸν φύσαντά τε” | “καθεῖλεν Ἅιδου θανασίμους οἰκήτορας”. Cp. Pind. P. 1. 51“σὺν δ᾽ ἀνάγκᾳ μιν φίλον” | “καί τις ἐὼν μεγαλάνωρ ἔσανεν” (so as to make him a friend). ὅπως ἔχω, forthwith: Ant. 1108“ὧδ᾽ ὡς ἔχω στείχοιμ᾽ ἄν.” ὀρθοῦσθαι, here, to be (not to become) “ὀρθός”, i.e., ‘to stand upright’: cp. Xen. Cyr. 8. 8. 10“ἐκφέρονται, ἐπειδὰν μηκέτι δύνωνται ὀρθούμενοι ἐξιέναι” (‘on their own feet’).
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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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