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ὁμαίμου, ‘kinswoman,’ is here defined by κασιγνήτης: though Sophocles never uses “ὅμαιμος” or “ὁμαίμων” except of the fraternal tie ( O. C. 330 n.). The emphasis is like that of “κοινὸν αὐτάδελφον” ( Ant. 1), or the Homeric “κασίγνητος καὶ ὄπατρος” ( Il. 12. 371). Cp. 156.


Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VI: The Electra. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.

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    • Homer, Iliad, 12.371
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