πόλλ̓ adv., ‘very’: O. C. 1514 n. πικρὸς: schol. “ἐχθρός”. Cp. Eur. Phoen. 955(a soothsayer) “ἢν μὲν ἐχθοὰ σημήνας τύχῃ”, | “πικρὸς καθέστηχ᾽ οἶς ἂν οἰωνοσκοπῇ”, ‘odious.’ Hence the conject. στυγνὸς (Nauck) is wholly needless. The active sense, ‘hostile,’ is more freq., as Soph. Ai. 1359“νῦν φίλοι καὖθις πικροί”.
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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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