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Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus by Sir Richard C. Jebb

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urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg007.perseus-grc2:3
τίς τὸν πλανήτην Οἰδίπουν καθʼ ἡμέραν

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urn:cts:greekLit:viaf2603144.viaf002.perseus-eng1:4

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πλανήτην : cp. Eur. Heracl. 878 ξένοι πλανήτην εἴχετ’ ἄθλιον βίον . The word is not in itself opprobrious: in 123 it is merely opp. to ἔγχωρος : cp. Plat. Rep. 371D καλοῦμεν...τοὺς...πλανήτας ἐπὶ τὰς πόλεις, ἐμπόρους . In O. T. 1029 πλάνης , said by Oed. to the Corinthian, takes its colour from the added ἐπὶ θητείᾳ , "a vagrant hireling."

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