σκοπεῖν here=“προσδοκᾶν”, a rare use. More often “σκοπεῖν”=‘look for’ in the sense of “ζητεῖν”: Xen. An. 5. 7. 32“σκοπεῖτε παῦλάν τινα.” οἵδε, Ajax and Antilochus; perh. he thinks of Achilles (331) too.
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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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