ἀλλʼ οὐ θεμιτὸν κεῖσε μολεῖν.
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.
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The MS. words
κεῖσε μολεῖν , which I omit, were almost certainly a gloss upon
ἀλλ’ οὐ θεμιτόν . If we keep them, then we must add something more, so as to make an anapaestic dimeter (see cr. n.). Campbell defends
ἀλλ’ οὐ θεμιτὸν κεῖσε μολεῖν as a paroemiac; but it is not such. In a paroemiac the penultimate syllable is necessarily long (as if here we had
κεῖσ’ ἐλθεῖν ).
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1758. mvp-comment-935-1 κεῖσε μολεῖν Dindorf, following Bothe, rejects these words. But the break made by the paroemiac has a good effect, giving room for the pause of astonishment caused by the decisive words of Theseus.