Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1777

ed. Lewis Campbell

ἀλλʼ ἀποπαύετε *μηδʼ ἐπὶ πλείω

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

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mvp-comment-1189-1 ἀλλ’ 1

mvp-comment-1189-2 ἀποπαύετε 2

mvp-comment-1189-3 Though the neut. pl. πλείω alone is sometimes adverbial, there seems to be no instance of ἐπὶ πλείω as= ἐπὶ πλέον : indeed, such a phrase is hardly conceivable. ἐπὶ must therefore belong to ἐγείρετε : for the tmesis cp. on 1689

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