Sophocles Trachiniae 1127

ed. Lewis Campbell

οὐ δῆτα τοῖς γε πρόσθεν ἡμαρτημένοις.

Trachiniae. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

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Unselig Hellas! Welche Trauer seh' ich dein
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Noch warten, wenn dir dieser Held entrissen wird!

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mvp-comment-578-1 οὐ δῆτα 1 τοῖς γε πρόσθεν ἡμαρτ 2

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1127. mvp-comment-795-1 οὐδῆτα τοῖς γε πρόσθεν ἡμαρτημένοις] (1) 'Certainly there is no cause for silence on account of her former errors;' i.e. No blame requiring silence attached to her until to-day. Or (2) 'No, her fault should be blazoned.' Or (3) Not so, for her crimes demand silence. But (2) and (3) assign no meaning to πρόσθεν. For the sending of the robe was not a former error, but the latest act of Deianira so far as Heracles knew, unless πρόσθεν may be taken to mean, 'Before this revelation which you are about to make.' The reminiscence of Deianira's blameless life, occurring when Heracles in his wrath against her is about to listen to Hyllus, is not the only modern touch' in the Trachiniae. Cp. supr. 1050, δολώπις, and note.