συμφέροι, be your helper: a sense derived from the idea of sharing a burden: El. 946“ξυνοίσω πᾶν ὅσονπερ ἂν σθένω”. Not, ‘be in accord with you’ (vobiscum conspiret, Herm. : Ar. Lys. 166“ἀνήρ, ἐὰν μὴ τῇ γυναικὶ συμφέρῃ”).
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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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