ὡς, causal (‘for’), referring to “τί...ἂν...δρῷμεν”, which implies, ‘It is vain to do more.’ ῥᾷστ᾽ ἐμοὶ μὲν κ.τ.λ.: the sentence is a compressed form of “ῥᾷστα ἐμοί ἐστιν, αὐτῷ” (or “αὐτὸν”) “μὲν... λῆξαι, σὲ δὲ ζῆν, κ.τ.λ.”
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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.
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