Sophocles Trachiniae 1224

ed. Lewis Campbell

προσθοῦ πρόσθου δάμαρτα, μηδ᾽ ἀπιστήσῃς πατρί·

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

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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1221 focus
Sie meint' ich. Eines leg' ich nun dir auf, o Kind!
Nach meinem Tode, wenn du fromm zu sein gedenkst,
1200
Und treu dem Eide, welchen du dem Vater schwurst,
Nimm sie zum Weibe, sei gehorsam meinem Wort!
Kein andrer Mann auf Erden nehm' an deiner Statt
Jemals die Jungfrau, die an meiner Seite lag;
Nein, nimm sie selbst als deine Gattin auf, o Sohn!
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Gehorche! Wahrlich, wenn du Großes mir gewährst
Und Kleines weigerst, dann zerrinnt der erste Dank.

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-638-1 προσθοῦ 1

mvp-comment-638-2 δάμαρτα 2

mvp-comment-638-3 Iolè figured in legend as the wife of Hyllus. Their son,

Κλεοδαῖος
(called
Κλεοδάτης
by Theopompus, fr. 30), was mentioned by Hesiod (schol. Ap. Rh. 1. 824 ), and was recorded in the pedigree of the Spartan kings, being the grandfather of Aristodemus ( Her.6. 52 Her., 8. 131 ). Hyllus and Iolè had also a daughter,
Εὐαίχμη
, known in Messenian story ( Paus.4. 2. 1 ).

mvp-comment-638-4 But, in this play, Iolè is the paramour of Heracles, and indirectly the cause of his death. How, then, could Hyllus wed her? His own words (1233—1237) express what a Greek would feel. It was necessary, then, that the marriage should be imposed upon him by his dying father's inexorable command.

mvp-comment-638-5 Cp. Apollodorus 2. 7. 7 § 13

ἐντειλάμενος Ὕλλῳ...τὴν Ἰόλην ἀνδρωθέντα γῆμαι
: as if Hyllus were younger than Sophocles here imagines him. Ovid, Met.9. 278 , of Iolè:
Herculis illam | Imperiis thalamoque animoque receperat Hyllus.
Acc. to Pherecydes, it was for Hyllus, not for himself, that Heracles had first asked the hand of Iolè (schol. on v. 354).

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

1224. mvp-comment-865-1 προσθοῦ δάμαρτα] So Hdt. 1. 53, εἴ τινα στρατὸν ἀνδρῶν προσθέοιτο φίλον : ib. 69, τὸν Ἕλληνα φίλον προσθέσθαι.