μή μοι βεβήκῃ. “μοι” is ethic dat. ( Ant. 50 n.) The subjunct. is right here: cp. 30 “κυρῇ”, n. The indic. “βέβηκε” would also be correct ( Dem. or. 19 § 96 “δέδοικα μὴ λελήθαμεν”), but would express conviction rather than anxious fear.—For “βέβηκα” as=“οἴχομαι”, of death, cp. Eur. Andr. 1026“βέβακε δ᾽ Ἀτρείδας ἀλόχου παλάμαις.” τοῖς ἱγμένοις, instr. dat.: for ἔστελλον, cp. 60 n.—The partic. “ἱγμένος” occurs only here. In Tr. 229 we have “ἵγμεθα”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
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