καλῶς with πράσσοντα (not with “ἕξειν”), “"in a seemly manner,"” “"duly"” (Lat. rite): cp. 617: O. T. 879 “τὸ καλῶς δ᾽ ἔχον ι πόλει πάλαισμα”. The fact that πράσσοντα καλῶς usually meant “"faring well"” is no objection. The ancient Greek instinct for words was remarkably free from bondage to phrases. Cp. Ant. 989 n. ἄλυπον: an echo of the expression used by Oed. (1519). Why change it to ἀδῇον (1533, Nauck), or ἄσυλον (Wecklein)?
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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