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and so why should I not be justly accounted blessed and enjoy an immortality of fame?“But I must also declare my will about the disposition1 of my throne, that the succession may not become a matter of dispute and cause you trouble. Now, I love you both alike, my sons; but precedence in counsel and leadership in everything that may be thought expedient, that I commit to the first born, who naturally has a wider experience.
1 He defines the succession
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 216-462
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- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Appendix
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- LSJ, προβουλ-εύω
- LSJ, σα^φην-ίζω
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