The τῶν of L and most MSS. cannot be right. To be on one's guard against a thing is always φυλάσσομαί τι, never τινος. In Thuc. 4.11 “φυλασσομένους τῶν νεῶν μὴ ξυντρίψωσιν” = acting cautiously on account of the ships (where Classen cp. “χαλεπῶς φέρειν τινός,” 1. 77): in Aesch. PV 390 “τούτου φυλάσσου μήποτ᾽ ἀχθεσθῇ κέαρ”, join “τούτου κέαρ”. The v.l. “τὸν” points to τό, which in this parenthetic warning=“τοῦτο” (“τὸ προπεσεῖν”) rather than ὅ. τόν (referring to “κρατήρ”) is less good; and τῷ ("wherefore") would be weak.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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