[137] ὑπὲρ γὰρ οὐχὶ i.e. not merely in the cause of Laius, whose widow he has married. The arrangement of the words is designed to help a second meaning of which the speaker is unconscious: “in the cause of a friend who is not far off” ）his own father（. The reference to Laius is confirmed by κείνῳ προσαρκῶν in 141.
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