ἱερὰν λιβάδ̓, the Spercheius (492), neighbour to the haunts of the Malian nymphs (725). All rivers were “ἱεροί”, but here the epithet has a special force, which ἐχθροῖς brings out: he had voluntarily withdrawn himself from the realm of friendly deities. Cp. his appeal in 1040 “ἀλλ᾽ ὦ πατρῴα γῆ θεοί τ᾽ ἐπόψιοι. ” ἔτ᾽ οὐδέν εἰμι: for the place of “ἔτ̓”, cp. O.T. 24 “ἔτ᾽ οὐχ οἵα τε” (n.).
This text is part of:
Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
