ὅσοι πάρεσμεν. The plural includes those who had accompanied Heracles from Euboea: cp. 1194 “ξὺν οἷς χρῄζεις φίλων”. We are not obliged to suppose that any son besides Hyllus was at home; though verses 54 f. implied that. Nauck rejects v. 1156 because (1) Hyllus could not say “ὅσοι”, and (2) Heracles has not yet asked him to do anything. ἐξυπηρετήσομεν: cp. O. T.217 n.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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