καίπερ οὐ πολλῶν ἄπο: and so it will not take long to choose them out. For the use of the prep., cp. Thuc. 1. 110“ὀλίγοι ἀπὸ πολλῶν”.
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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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