Sophocles Trachiniae 1195

ed. Lewis Campbell

πολλὴν μὲν ὕλην τῆς βαθυρρίζου δρυὸς
1195

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

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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

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Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1203 focus
Was sagtest du, mein Vater? Weh! Was thust du mir?

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-622-1 The pyre is to be built with (1) oak, sacred to Zeus (1168); and (2) the wild olive, which Heracles himself had brought to Greece: Paus.5. 7. 7

κομισθῆναι δὲ ἐκ τῆς Ὑπερβορέων γῆς τὸν κότινόν φασιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ἐς Ἕλληνας
. Pindar, in treating that legend, uses the generic word,
ἐλαία
, O. 3. 13. Pliny H. N. 16. 89
Olympiae oleaster, ex quo primus Hercules coronatus est:
where he also mentions that, near Heracleia in Pontus, were
quercus duae ab Hercule satae.

mvp-comment-622-2 κείραντα 1 ἄγριον ἔλαιον 2 ἄρσενα 3

mvp-comment-622-3 πολλὸν 4 σῶμα τοὐμὸν 5

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

1195-1196. mvp-comment-845-1 ὕλην. . κείραντα] These words are applicable, not to the hewing of timber, but to the lopping of such smaller boughs and brushwood as would be suitable for the pyre. The wild-olive, on the other hand, is to be cut down to the root. For δρυός, cp. supr. 766.