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ἔτι μέγας οὐρανῷ=154 “ἄχος ἐφάνη βροτῶν”. Hermann saves the ἐν of the MSS. by reading “μέγας ἔτ᾽ ἐν” etc.; but the simple dat. of place seems warranted by such instances as 313 (“ἀγροῖσι”), O. T. 1451“ναίειν ὄρεσιν”, Hes. Op. 8“αἰθέρι ναίειν”, Pind. N. 10. 58“θεὸς ἔμμεναι οἰκεῖν τ᾽ οὐρανῷ”.


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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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 8
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