τὰ πάτρια, which had belonged to his father, Achilles: a rare poetical use of “πάτριος” as=“πατρῷος”: cp. Pind. O. 6. 62“πατρία ὄσσα”, the voice of his father (Apollo). In Soph. O. T. 1394“τὰ πάτρια... δώματ̓”=‘the house of my fathers,’ “πάτριος” having its usual sense. But that sense is impossible here, since Achilles had been the first possessor of the arms wrought by Hephaestus.—“παρεδίδοσαν”: cp. 64 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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