Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus

[997] The simplest view ofἡ Κόρινθος ἐξ ἐμοῦ ἀπῳκεῖτο is, as Whitelaw says, that it means literally, “Corinth was lived-away-from by me,” —being the passive of ἐγὼ ἀπῴκουν τῆς Κορίνθου. It is thus merely one of those instances in which a passive verb takes as subject that which would stand in gen. or dat. as object to the active verb: cp. the passive καταγελῶμαι, καταφρονοῦμαι, καταψηφίζομαι, ἐπιβουλεύομαι, etc. [I formerly took it to be passive of ἐγὼ ἀπῴκουν τὴν Κόρινθον, “I inhabited C. only at a distance,” —a paradoxical phrase like ἐν σκότῳ ὁρᾶν （1273）.] ἀποικεῖν is a comparatively rare word. Eur. has it twice （Eur. Her. 557: Eur. IA 680: in both with gen., ‘to dwell far from ’）: Thuc. once with μακρὰν （Thuc. 3.55） and Xen. once （Xen. Oec. 4.6）, —both absol., as = ‘to dwell afar ’: as prob. Theocr. 15.7 （reading ὦ μέλ᾽ ἀποικεῖς with Meineke）: Plato once thus （Plat. Laws 753a）, and twice as = to emigrate （“ἐκ Γόρτυνος,” Plat. Laws 708a, “ἐς Θουρίους,” Plat. Euthyd. 271c）: in which sense Isocr. also has it twice （Isoc. 4.122, Isoc. 6.84）: Pindar once （with accus. of motion to a place）, Pind. P. 4.258 “Καλλίσταν ἀπῴκησαν,” they went and settled at Callista.