Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus by Sir Richard C. Jebb
βωμοῖσι τοῖς σοῖς The altars of the προστατήριοι θεοί in front of the palace, including that of Apollo Λύκειος (919). μακρὰν πτέσθαι. So Andromache to her child —νεοσσὸς ὡσεὶ πτέρυγας ἐσπίτνων ἐμάςEur. Tro. 746. The proper Attic form for the aor. of πέτομαι was ἐπτόμην, which alone was used in prose and Comedy. Though forms from ἐπτάμην sometimes occur in Tragedy, as in the Homeric poems, Elms. had no cause to wish for πτάσθαι here.
far, μ. ἀνωτέρω θακῶν A. Pr. 314; μ. λελειμμένος left far behind, ib. 857; οὐδέπω μακρὰν πτέσθαι σθένοντες S. OT 16; ἀπελθεῖν Ar. Ra. 438 (lyr.); ἱέναι X. An. 3.4.17; ἔστʼ οὐ μ. ἄπωθεν Ar. Av. 1184; τοὔργον οὐ μ. λέγεις the business you speak of is not far to seek, S. Ph. 26: c. gen., far from, βαρβάρου χθονός E. IT 629; κἂν ᾖ τοῦ γένους μ. Pl.Com. 192; τῶν πολεμίων Plb. 3.50.8; οὐ μ. ἀπό τινος Id. 3.45.2: in Comp., ἀποσκίδνασθαι μακροτέραν to a greater distance, Th. 6.98; πορεύεσθαι μ. X. An. 2.2.11: Sup., ὅτι μακροτάτην as far as possible, c. gen. loci, ib. 7.8.20.