φάσκειν δ̓: inf. as imperat.: cp. 57. For this use of “φάσκειν”, as= ‘deem,’ cp. O. T. 462 n. ἀκοῇ τε κλύειν. If we had simply, “αὐδήν τε κλύειν, λεύσσειν τ᾽ ὄψιν”, the misplacing of the first “τε” would be of a common kind (cp. O. T. 258 n.): the further peculiarity here is that “ἀκοῇ τε κλύειν” suggests “ὀφθαλμοῖς τε λεύσσειν”, as if the object of both verbs were the person.
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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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