μήν instead of the usu. “καὶ μήν” (526). νέατον, ‘youngest and last,’ Megareus being dead (1303): cp. 807 “τὰν νεάταν ὁδόν”; so 808, Ai. 1185. As applied to a person, “νέατος” could not be said of a sole survivor unless he was also the latest-born. “γέννημ᾽”: cp. 471 n. ἀχνύμενος with μόρον as internal acc.: cp. Il. 5.361 “ἄχθομαι ἔλκος”.
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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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