ἦ γάρ, 248 n. τοῖς πανωλέθροις: cp. Soph. El. 86“χἡ πανώλεθρος” | “μήτηρ.” παθών, and not merely “κλύων”. 324 f. The corruption in the MSS., “θυμῷ...χεῖρα”, is of the same nature as that in O. T. 376（“με...σοῦ” for “σε ἐμοῦ”). Cp. Plat. Rep. 465A “εἴ πού τίς τῳ θυμοῖτο, ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ πληρῶν τὸν θυμὸν” (sating his wrath) “ἧττον ἐπὶ μείζους ἂν ἴοι στάσεις.” Μυκῆναι, as the city of Agamemnon: Σπάρτη, as that of Menelaus. γνοῖεν, after the optative “γένοιτο”: cp. Aesch. Eum. 297“ἔλθοι” (‘may she come !’)... | “ὅπως γένοιτο τῶνδ᾽ ἐμοὶ λυτήριος”: and Soph. O. T. 506 n.
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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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