ἐξ Ἰλίου τοι δὴ “κ.τ.λ.” Here τοι =‘you must know,’ and δὴ=‘then’ (i.e., ‘since you ask me’). The effect of the particles (which could be properly represented only by voice and manner) is to give an easy, ready tone to the answer. Cp. n. on O. T. 1171(though the tone there is somewhat different) “κείνου γέ τοι δὴ παῖς ἐκλήζεθ̓”. Burges thinks that τοι δὴ, without a preceding “γε”, is strange, and conjectures ᾿γὼ δὴ. But “τοί” and “δή” have each their proper force, which does not depend on “γε”: and here a “γε” before “τοι” would have over-emphasised “Ἰλίου”.
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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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