mvp-comment-569-1 ὦ τλῆμον Ἑλλάς ¹

mvp-comment-569-2 σφαλήσεται ² σφαλεῖσ’ ἔσει ³

mvp-comment-570-1 παρέσχες ⁴ παρασχὼν ⁵

mvp-comment-570-2 νοσῶν ὅμως ⁶

mvp-comment-570-3 δίκαια ⁷

mvp-comment-571-1 δός μοι σεαυτόν ⁸ μὴ τοσοῦτον δύσοργος ⁹ ὡς δάκνει θυμῷ ¹⁰ δάκνῃ ¹¹

mvp-comment-571-2 With the conjecture τοιοῦτον ¹²

mvp-comment-572-1 οὐ γὰρ ἂν γνοίης ¹³

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐν οἷς χαίρειν προθυμεῖ ¹⁴

mvp-comment-572-3 κἀν ὅτοις ἀλγεῖς μάτην ¹⁵

mvp-comment-573-1 ποικίλλεις ¹⁶

mvp-comment-574-1 τῆς μητρὸς ¹⁷ φράσων ¹⁸ νῦν ἔστιν ¹⁹

mvp-comment-574-2 οἷς θ’ ἥμαρτεν ²⁰

mvp-comment-575-1 καὶ παρεμνήσω ²¹ γὰρ ²²

mvp-comment-575-2 παρεμνήσω ²³

mvp-comment-576-1 πατροφόντου ²⁴

mvp-comment-576-2 ὡς κλύειν ἐμέ ²⁵

mvp-comment-577-1 ἔχει γὰρ οὕτως ²⁶

mvp-comment-578-1 οὐ δῆτα ²⁷ τοῖς γε πρόσθεν ἡμαρτ ²⁸

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ἐρεῖς ²⁹ τοῖς γ’ ἐφ’ ἡμέραν ³⁰

mvp-comment-579-2 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ³¹

mvp-comment-579-3 τοῖς … ἐφ’ ἡμέραν ³²

mvp-comment-580-1 κακὸς ³³

mvp-comment-581-1 λέγω ³⁴

mvp-comment-581-2 ἀρτίως νεοσφαγής ³⁵

mvp-comment-582-1 ἐθέσπισας ³⁶

mvp-comment-582-2 διὰ κακῶν ³⁷

mvp-comment-583-1 οὐδενὸς πρὸς ἐκτόπου ³⁸

mvp-comment-583-2 1133 The emphasis on ἐξ ἐμῆς χερός ³⁹ πρὶν θανεῖν ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-584-1 δεινοῦ ⁴¹

mvp-comment-584-2 κατῆρξας ⁴²

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅπαν τὸ χρῆμ’ ⁴³ τὸ χρῆμα ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-585-2 μωμένη ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-586-1 κτείνασα ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-587-1 γὰρ ⁴⁷ στέργημα ⁴⁸ στέργηθρα ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-587-2 σέθεν ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-587-3 δοκοῦσα ⁵¹

mvp-comment-587-4 τοὺς ἔνδον γάμους ⁵²

mvp-comment-588-1 καὶ ⁵³

mvp-comment-588-2 τοσοῦτος ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-589-1 ἐκμῆναι ⁵⁵

1113. mvp-comment-783-1 εἰ σφαλήσεται] Observe the change from the vocative to the 3rd person. The word implies not merely losing him, but being disappointed of her hopes in him.

1114. mvp-comment-784-1 παρέσχες] 'You give me the opportunity:' παρέχω in this sense is more commonly impersonal. The same verb is repeated, with a slightly different meaning, in the next line.

1116. mvp-comment-785-1 Ср. О. С. 1106, αἰτεῖς ἃ τεύξει.

1117-1118. mvp-comment-786-1 μὴ τοσοῦτον .. δύσοργος] i. e. ὡς μὴ τοσοῦτον δάκνῃ θυμῷ δύσοργος, That you be not so exceedingly vexed with rage, being grievously distempered.' θυμῷ is to be joined both with δάκνῃ and with δύσοργος. For the postponement of ὡς, cp. Αj. 589, 90, ἐγὼ θεοῖς | ὡς οὐδὲν ἀρκεῖν εἴμ᾽ ὀφειλέτης ἔτι. μή adheres closely to τοσοῦτον. Others, reading δάκνει, suppose an alternation of clauses = μὴ τοσοῦτον δύσοργος, ὡς δάκνει θυμῷ, “In a less wrathful mood, than now you are devoured with in your soul.'

1118-1119. mvp-comment-787-1 Else you will not know in what you would fain rejoice, and wherein you are indignant without cause.

1120. mvp-comment-788-1 ὡς ἐγὼ νοσῶν] 'Since I in my distraction.'

1121. mvp-comment-789-1 Heracles' impatience is roused by Hyllus' vague antithetical expression (1117-9), which he treats as a riddle. Then Hyllus speaks more plainly.

1122. mvp-comment-790-1 τῆς μητρός] About my mother. For this genitive, ср. О. Т. 701, Κρέοντος, and note.

1123. mvp-comment-791-1 οἷς θ᾽ ἥμαρτεν] ‘And wherein she erred unwittingly.' Cp. Phil. 1011, 2, ἀλγεινῶς φέρων | οἷς τ᾽ αὐτὸς ἐξή- μαρτεν, οἷς τ᾽ ἐγὼ ᾿παθον.

1124. mvp-comment-792-1 καὶ παρεμνήσω γάρ] · What? Hast thou even made passing mention?' γάρ gives the reason of ὦ παγκάκιστε. παραμιμνήσκομαι, like several other rare words, is common to Sophocles and Herodotus. See Essay on L. p. 88, note 1.

1125. mvp-comment-793-1 τῆς πατροφόντου μητρός] Of the mother that is thy father's murderer.' For the masculine form, cp. O. Τ. 80, 1, τύχῃ . . σωτῆρι.

1126. mvp-comment-794-1 ἔχει γὰρ οὕτως] (1) 'For her state is such,' or (2), sc. περὶ αὐτῆς, 'For the case stands so with her.' ὥστε μὴ σιγᾶν πρέπειν] That silence is not well,'-because it leaves her beneath an unjust imputation after she is dead.

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.

1128. mvp-comment-796-1 ἐρεῖς] Sc. ὅταν μάθῃς. (1) Neither does her fault to-day require silence, as you will presently confess. 'Sed et hodie dices ne ob haec quidem tacendum esse.' Musgr. Or (2), Her fault of to-day, too, (her suicide) must be spoken of.' Or (3) (γε μ. δ.?), But you will not say so when you have heard what has happened to-day.'

1129. mvp-comment-797-1 εὐλαβοῦ γεγώς] ‘Take heed you do not prove yourself base;' viz. By preferring your mother to your father. Supr. 1064, 5.

1130. mvp-comment-798-1 The comparison of Aj. 898, 9. Αἴας ὅδ᾽ ἡμῖν ἀρτίως νεοσφαγὴς | κεῖται, shows that ἀρτίως is to be taken closely with νεοσφαγής. She is dead, slain even but now with recent stroke.'

1131. mvp-comment-799-1 διὰ κακῶν is explained by the Scholiast διὰ δυσφήμων, In ill-omened words,' and by Schndw. as equal to διὰ ψευδῶν, 'Falsely.' But there is no point in Heracles' saying either δυσφημείς, when the news is what he wishes to hear, or ψεύδει, when he is asking for further information. May not διά be taken as in διὰ πάντων = Amidst and rising above,' the evils' being the pain of Heracles? Cp. Plat. Rep. 6. 494 D, ἆρ᾽ εὐπετὲς οἴει εἶναι εἰσακοῦσαι διὰ τοσούτων κακῶν; «Your miraculous words are a portent amidst my woes.' The mind of Heracles is struck by the sudden news: 'You have told me, in mysterious words, piercing through my woes, a strange thing.'

1132. mvp-comment-800-1 ἐκτόπου] 'From without;' i.e. Other than herself. Cp. supr. 730, οἴκοι: 1021, οὔτ᾽ ἔνδοθεν οὔτε θύραθεν, and notes.

1135. mvp-comment-801-1 δεινοῦ] Not merely Strange,' but Hardly endurable; i.e. likely to provoke a quarrel. Cp. O. С. 861, δεινὸν λέγεις.

1136. mvp-comment-802-1 ἅπαν τὸ χρῆμ', ἥμαρτε χρηστὰ μωμένη] 'The whole matter is, she erred with good intent.' Nauck edits ἁπλοῦν τὸ ῥῆμ᾽. χρήμα is the subject of the sentence. For the syntax, cp. Ο.Τ. 1234, 5, ὁ μὲν τάχιστος τῶν λόγων εἰπεῖν τε καὶ | μαθεῖν, τέθνηκε θεῖον Ιοκάστης κάρα. The comma after χρῆμα was introduced by Hermann, the Schol. and former editors having understood the words to mean merely, 'She utterly mistook, though she meant well.'

1137. mvp-comment-803-1 δρᾷ = λέγεις δεδρακέναι. Phil. 58.

1138. mvp-comment-804-1 σέθεν, objective genitive, is connected with the noun, instead of σοί with προσβαλεῖν, so marking the stress upon στέργημα. Cp. supr. 575, 6, ἔσται φρενός σοι τοῦτο κηλητήριον | τῆς Ἡρακλείας.

1139. mvp-comment-805-1 ἀπήμπλακε] 'She missed her aim. The chief stress is on the former part of the sentence, with which the clause with ὡς is therefore connected. ἀπήμπλακε implies, 'She did what she least of all desired to do.' τοὺς ἔνδον γάμους] 'The marriage within there,' prepared in the house, i.e. by the introduction of Iole. The sting of the offence was not merely the marriage with Iole, but the fact that she was brought home. Cp. supr. 536-546. Hyllus hints as gently as he can at the cause of trouble.

1140. mvp-comment-806-1 καί, as in καὶ πῶς; expresses wonder. Cp. Ant. 1102, καὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἐπαινεῖς καὶ δοκεῖς παρεικαθεῖν;

1141. mvp-comment-807-1 Νέσσος] The mention of Nessus reminds Heracles of the prophecy of his father Zeus, that a dead hand' should be the cause of his death. His mind is thus called away from all that surrounds him, and

1142. mvp-comment-808-1 τοιῷδε] 'Such' as we now see in its effects. Cp. Aj. 453.