ἀλύξετον. The pres. ind. “ἀλύσκω” occurs in Apollon. Rhod., and the pres. part. in Hom. Od.; otherwise we find only the fut. (usu. “ἀλύξω”, but “ἀλύξομαι”, Hes. Op. 363) and aor. “ἤλυξα” (once midd., “ἐξαλύξωμαι” Ai. 656). The gen. μόρου follows the analogy of “ἀπολύεσθαι, ἀπαλλάττεσθαι”, etc. The regular constr. of the verb is with the acc. (as in the Homeric “κῆρας ἀλύξας”), and so Eur. always has an acc. with “ἐξήλυξα”. In El. 627 “θράσους ι τοῦδ᾽ οὐκ ἀλύξεις”, the gen. is not like this, but causal (‘for this boldness’). Oppian's “ἐξήλυξε μόροιο” ( Hal. 3. 104) was obviously suggested by our verse. So in Ph. 1044 Soph. has ventured on “τῆς νόσου πεφευγέναι”, thinking, doubtless, of the Homeric “πεφυγμένος ἦεν ἀέθλων”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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