εὐστόλου, here prob., ‘well-equipped’; though at v. 780 “εὐσταλής” (the commoner form) = ‘expeditious.’ Cp. Apoll. Rh. 1. 603“ὄσσον ἐς ἔνδιόν κεν ἐΰστολος ὁλκὰς ἀνύσσαι”.—For the double epithet, without copula, cp. Hom. Od. 7. 34“νηυσὶ θοῇσι πεποιθότες ὠκείῃσι”: Soph. Ai. 710“θοᾶν ὠκυάλων νεῶν”.
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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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