mvp-comment-124-1 Εὐβοίς ¹

mvp-comment-124-2 ὁρίζεται βωμοὺς ² βωμοὺς ³

mvp-comment-124-3 τέλη τ’ ἔγκαρπα ⁴

mvp-comment-125-1 εὐκταῖα … ἢ )πὸ μαντείας ⁵

mvp-comment-125-2 φαίνων ⁶

mvp-comment-126-1 εὐχαῖς ⁷

mvp-comment-126-2 ἀνάστατον ⁸

mvp-comment-127-1 ὧν ⁹

mvp-comment-127-2 ἐν ὄμμασιν ¹⁰

mvp-comment-128-1 τοῦ ποτ’ εἰσὶ ¹¹ ἐκεῖνος ¹²

mvp-comment-129-1 οἰκτραὶ γάρ ¹³

mvp-comment-129-2 ξυμφοραὶ ¹⁴ ξυμφορᾷ ¹⁵

mvp-comment-130-1 ἐξείλεθ’ ¹⁶ αὑτῷ ¹⁷ θεοῖς ¹⁸

mvp-comment-131-1 ἦ κἀπὶ ¹⁹

mvp-comment-131-2 ἄσκοπον ²⁰

mvp-comment-131-3 ἡμερῶν ²¹ ἀνήριθμον ²² χρόνον ²³

mvp-comment-131-4 The form

is of a frequent type. When the second part of a compound adj. has a disyllabic stem (usu. a verbal stem), beginning with a short vowel, this vowel may be lengthened. Such forms were oft. convenient in poetry (as ), but many of them were equally current in good prose (as ). The restriction of to classical poetry and late prose (as Athen. p. 253 F) is not due to 1ts form, but to the fact that classical prose preferred . Tragedy uses ( ) where it suits the metre (as in El.225 ). In Theocr. 15. 45 ( ) is Doric for .

mvp-comment-132-1 τὸν μὲν πλεῖστον … χρόνον ²⁴ ὡς φήσ’ αὐτός ²⁵

mvp-comment-133-1 ἐμποληθείς ²⁶

mvp-comment-133-2 τοῦ λόγου … φθόνον ²⁷

mvp-comment-133-3 προσεῖναι ²⁸

mvp-comment-133-4 ὅτου ²⁹ ὅτου ³⁰ τοῦ λόγου ³¹

mvp-comment-133-5 πράκτωρ φανῇ ³²

mvp-comment-133-6 The meaning is:—‘You may think that the humiliation of Heracles ought not to be related by his servant to his wife. But this humiliation was imposed by Zeus himself, and can therefore be related without reflecting upon Heracles.’

mvp-comment-134-1 κεῖνος δὲ ³³ ἐν Λυδοῖς ³⁴ χρόνον ³⁵

mvp-comment-134-2 πραθεὶς … Ὀμφάλῃ ³⁶

mvp-comment-134-3 Two tragic poets of the fifth century B.C., Ionof Chios and Achaeus, had written an

. Two poets of the Middle Comedy, Antiphanes (Athen. 112 C) and Cratinus jun. (id. 669 B) wrote an , picturing Heracles abandoned to sensuous pleasures. Itis the more noteworthy how Sophocles, in lightly touching on this episode, has guarded his hero's dignity. For he speaks only of servile labours for the Lydian taskmistress (70 It, 356 ); and marks how the bondsman felt his disgrace (254).

mvp-comment-135-1 ἐνιαυτὸν ³⁷

mvp-comment-136-1 λαβὼν ³⁸

mvp-comment-137-1 ὅρκον αὑτῷ προσβαλὼν ³⁹

mvp-comment-137-2 ἦ μὴν ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-137-3 τὸν ἀγχιστῆρα τοῦδε τοῦ πάθους ⁴¹

mvp-comment-137-4 No emendation is probable. Nauck's αὐτόχειρα ⁴²

mvp-comment-138-1 ξὺν παιδὶ καὶ γυναικὶ ⁴³ παισὶ ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-138-2 ἔτι ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-139-1 κοὐχ ἡλίωσε τοὔπος ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-139-2 ὅθ’ ἁγνὸς ἦν ⁴⁷ ἁγνός ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-140-1 στρατὸν … ἐπακτὸν ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-140-2 ἔρχεται ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-140-3 πόλιν τὴν Εὐρυτείάν ⁵¹

mvp-comment-141-1 ἐφέστιον ⁵² ἐς δόμους ⁵³ ἐλθόντ’ … ἐφέστιον ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-142-1 ξένον παλαιὸν ὄντα ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-143-1 ἐπερρόθησε ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-143-2 From

a verb of more general sense, such as , is to be supplied with ἀτηρᾷ φρενί ⁵⁷ γόγοις ⁵⁸ φρενί ⁵⁹ δείπνοις δ’ ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-143-3 Others understand :—‘railed against him both with (rude) words and with evil intent.’ To this there are two objections. (1) Since all the supposed affronts are then verbal, the antithesis would require an epithet for λόγοις ⁶¹ ἀτηρᾷ ⁶² πολλὰ μὲν … πολλὰ δέ ⁶³

mvp-comment-143-4 The text is clearly (I think) sound. It is unwarrantable, as it is undesirable, to strike out πολλὰ δ’ … χεροῖν μὲν ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-144-1 λέγων χεροῖν μὲν ⁶⁵ δὲ ⁶⁶ λέγων ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-144-2 τῶν ὧν τέκνων ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-144-3 λείποιτο ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-145-1 φωνεῖ δὲ ⁷⁰ ῥαίοιτο ⁷¹

mvp-comment-145-2 ἀνδρὸς … ἐλευθέρου ⁷² δοῦλος ⁷³

mvp-comment-145-3 ῥαίοιτο ⁷⁴

mvp-comment-145-4 The conject.

(cr. n.) has been received by several edd., who cite Ai.1020 . There, however, the force of depends on : ‘represented,’ ‘made out,’ in his taunting words, to be a slave. Here would mean simply, ‘found to be.’

mvp-comment-145-5 δείπνοις ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-145-6 ᾠνωμένος ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-145-7 ἔρριψεν ἐκτὸς αὐτόν ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-145-8 ὧν ἔχων χόλον ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-146-1 αὖθις ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-146-2 Τιρυνθίαν … κλιτύν ⁸⁰ υ^ ⁸¹ κλιτύν ⁸²

mvp-comment-146-3 ἵππους νομάδας ⁸³ νομάδας ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-147-1 ἄλλοσ’ … ὄμμα, θατέρᾳ δὲ νοῦν ἔχοντ’ ⁸⁵ θατέρᾳ ⁸⁶ ἄλλοσε ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-147-2 πυργώδους πλακός ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-148-1 ὁ τῶν ἁπάντων ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-149-1 πρατόν νιν ἐξέπεμψεν ⁹⁰ οὐδ’ ἠνέσχετο ⁹¹ ὁθούνεκ’ ⁹² μοῦνον ⁹³

mvp-comment-150-1 ἠμύνατο ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-151-1 χειρουμένῳ ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-151-2 οὐδὲ δαίμονες ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-152-1 κεῖνοι δ’ ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-152-2 ὑπερχλίοντες ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-152-3 ἐκ γλώσσης κακῆς ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-152-4 282 For αὐτοὶ μὲν ¹⁰⁰ κεῖνοι ¹⁰¹ πόλις δὲ ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-152-5 οἰκήτορες ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-153-1 τάσδε ¹⁰⁴ ἅσπερ ¹⁰⁵ ἐξ ὀλβίων ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-154-1 χωροῦσι πρὸς σέ ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-154-2 πόσις τε … ἐγὼ δὲ ¹⁰⁸ ἐφεῖτο ¹⁰⁹ τελῶ ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-155-1 ἁγνὰ θύματα ¹¹¹ τῆς ἁλώσεως ¹¹²

mvp-comment-156-1 φρόνει νιν ὡς ἥξοντα ¹¹³ νιν ¹¹⁴ ὡς ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-157-1 καλῶς ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-158-1 νῦν σοι τέρψις ἐμφανὴς κυρεῖ ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-158-2 τῶν μὲν ¹¹⁸ τὰ δὲ ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-159-1 πανδίκῳ φρενί ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-160-1 τῇδε ¹²¹ τοῦτο ¹²²

mvp-comment-160-2 The rejection of this verse (see cr. n.) would be deplorable. Deianeira rejoices, but <*>ls a certain sadness, and knows that she cannot help showing it; all the more she wishes to assure them how real her joy is.

mvp-comment-161-1 τοῖσιν εὖ σκοπουμένοις ¹²³

mvp-comment-161-2 ταρβεῖν τὸν εὖ πράσσοντα ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-161-3 This shadow which flits across Deianeira's joy is the more dramatically impressive for the spectators, because it arises so naturally out of her tender sympathy for the captives. It is a touch worthy of the greatest master.

mvp-comment-162-1 ἐμοὶ … εἰσέβη ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-162-2 δεινὸς ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-163-1 ἀπάτορας ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-163-2 301 f. For ἴσως ¹²⁸ ἐξ ἐλευθέρων ἀνδρῶν ¹²⁹ ἀνδρῶν ¹³⁰ ἀπάτορας ¹³¹

mvp-comment-164-1 ὦ Ζεῦ τροπαῖε ¹³²

mvp-comment-164-2 τοὐμὸν σπέρμα ¹³³

mvp-comment-164-3 χωρήσαντα ¹³⁴ εἰς ¹³⁵ πρὸς ¹³⁶ σε ¹³⁷ που ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-165-1 μηδ’, εἴ τι δράσεις ¹³⁹ εἰ ¹⁴⁰ ζώσης ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-165-2 This verse is a development of μή ποτ’ εἰσίδοιμι ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-165-3 The objection to the verse as illogical assumes that the

in μηδέ ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-166-1 τεκνοῦσσα ¹⁴⁴ τεκοῦσα ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-166-2 πρὸς … φύσιν ¹⁴⁶ πάντων … τῶνδε ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-166-3 γενναία ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-167-1 ὁ φιτύσας πατήρ ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-167-2 ᾤκτισα ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-167-3 ὅσῳπερ ¹⁵¹ μόνη ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-167-4 φρονεῖν οἶδεν ¹⁵³ φρονεῖν ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-167-5 314 f. For καὶ ¹⁵⁵ κρίνοις ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-167-6 γέννημα τῶν ἐκεῖθεν ¹⁵⁷ οὐκ ἐν ὑστάτοις ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-168-1 μὴ τῶν τυράννων ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-168-2 Εὐρύτου σπορά τις ἦν ¹⁶⁰ τις ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-169-1 ἀνιστόρουν ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-169-2 μακράν ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-170-1 ξυνεμπόρων ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-170-2 ἔχεις ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-170-3 ἤνυτον ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-171-1 ἀλλ’ ἡμὶν ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-172-1 καὶ ¹⁶⁸ ξυμφορά ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-173-1 οὔ τἄρα ¹⁷⁰ οὐδὲν ἐξ ἴσου ¹⁷¹ τῷ γε πρόσθεν χρόνῳ ¹⁷² ἐξ ἴσου ¹⁷³ διοίσει ¹⁷⁴ γλῶσσαν ¹⁷⁵ διοίσει ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-173-2 ἤτις ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-173-3 οὐδαμὰ ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-174-1 οὔτε μείζον’ οὔτ’ ἐλάσσονα ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-175-1 ὠδίνουσα … βάρος ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-176-1 διήνεμον ¹⁸¹ πάτραν ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-176-2 ἡ … τὐχη ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-176-3 αὐτῇ γ’ ¹⁸⁴ γ’ ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-176-4 συγγνώμην ἔχει ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-177-1 ἡ δ’ οὖν ¹⁸⁷ ἡ δ’ ¹⁸⁸ ἥδ’ ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-177-2 οὕτως ὅπως ἥδιστα ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-177-3 331 Among the attempts to amend

(cr. n.), the two best, I think, are, (1) ἄλλην … λύπην ¹⁹¹ λύπην … διπλῆν ¹⁹² διπλῆν ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-177-4 Almost all edd. retain the optat. λάβοι ¹⁹⁴ λάβῃ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-178-1 οἷ θέλεις σπεύδῃς ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-178-2 ἐγὼ δὲ ¹⁹⁷ σύ θ’ ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-178-3 ἐξαρκῆ τιθῶ ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-179-1 The

(180), who has listened in silence, now places himself between Deianeira and the door through which she is about to follow Lichas and the captives.

mvp-comment-179-2 αὐτοῦ γε πρῶτον βαιὸν ἀμμείνας’ ²⁰⁰ γε ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-179-3 ἀμμείνας’ ²⁰²

mvp-comment-180-1 ἄνευ ²⁰³ τ’ ²⁰⁴ μάθῃς ²⁰⁵ μάθῃς ²⁰⁶ ἐκμάθῃς ²⁰⁷ οὕστινας ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-180-2 ὧν τ’ οὐδὲν εἰσήκουσας ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-181-1 πάντ’ ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-182-1 τί δ’ ἔστι ²¹¹

mvp-comment-182-2 τοῦ ²¹²

mvp-comment-182-3 ἐφίστασαί με ²¹³ τήνδε βάσιν ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-182-4 The midd.

does not elsewhere occur in a causal sense (except in the aor., as Xen. Cyr.8. 2. 19 ). But the causal use of ( Aesch. Eum.706 , Thuc.2. 6 ) appears to warrant a like use of , where, as here, the context helps to explain it. Cp. also Plat. Tim. 63 C

γεώδη γένη διϊστάμενοι

, ‘separating.’ [But we cannot properly compare O. C.916 , ‘you bring to your own side,’ ‘subjugate’: nor Plat. Rep. 565C : where there is a special reason for using the midd.] The midd. in Soph. O. C.244 is similarly unique, and has a like justification.

mvp-comment-182-5 A fact which confirms this view is that

were regularly used with ref. to a halt. Xen. An.2. 4. 26 . (For , ‘a halt,’ cp. Soph. Ant.225 n.) Polyb. 16. 34. 2 . Diod.17. 112 . Plut. Cim. 1 . Arrian 5. 16. 1 .

mvp-comment-182-6 Another explanation is: τοῦ με ἐφίστασαι ²¹⁵ τήνδε βάσιν ²¹⁶ με ²¹⁷ μοι ²¹⁸ τοῦ ²¹⁹ ἐφ’ οὗ ²²⁰ με ²²¹

mvp-comment-183-1 οὐδὲ τὸν πάρος … οὐδὲ νῦν ²²² οὐδὲ ²²³ οὔτε ²²⁴

mvp-comment-183-2 μάτην ²²⁵

mvp-comment-183-3 δοκῶ ²²⁶

mvp-comment-184-1 ἐκείνους ²²⁷ τούτους δ’ ἔα ²²⁸ ἄνευ τῶνδ’ ²²⁹

mvp-comment-184-2 ἢ )μοὶ ταῖσδέ τ’ ²³⁰

mvp-comment-185-1 σοὶ ταῖσδέ τ’ οὐδὲν εἴργεται ²³¹ οὐδὲν ²³² σοὶ ταῖσδέ τ’ ²³³

mvp-comment-186-1 καὶ δὴ ²³⁴

mvp-comment-186-2 χὡ λόγος σημαινέτω ²³⁵

mvp-comment-187-1 δίκης ἐς ὀρθόν ²³⁶

mvp-comment-187-2 ἢ νῦν … ἢ πρόσθεν … παρῆν ²³⁷ κακός ²³⁸

mvp-comment-188-1 ἃ μὲν γὰρ ἐξείρηκας ²³⁹

mvp-comment-188-2 ἀγνοία ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-189-1 μαρτύρων ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-189-2 Εὔρυτόν θ’ ἕλοι τήν θ’ ὑψίπ. Οἰχαλίαν ²⁴²

mvp-comment-189-3 τὴν ὑψίπυργον ²⁴³

mvp-comment-189-4 Οἰχαλίαν ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-190-1 μόνος θεῶν ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-190-2 θέλξειεν ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-191-1 οὐ τἀπὶ Λυδοῖς ²⁴⁷ ὑπ’ ²⁴⁸ ἐπ’ ²⁴⁹ τἀπὶ ²⁵⁰ ἐπ’ ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-191-2 πόνων λατρεύματ’ ²⁵²

mvp-comment-191-3 ὁ ῥιπτὸς … μόρος ²⁵³

mvp-comment-191-4 Heracles had really killed Iphitus. The denial here refers only to the place which the murder held in the story told by Lichas. Heracles was instigated, not by the Lydian servitude which punished his crime, or by those affronts (262 ff.) which Lichas represented as having moved him to the crime, but, in reality, by the refusal of Eurytus to give him Iolè.

mvp-comment-192-1 ὃν ²⁵⁴ ὃ ²⁵⁵ ὃν … παρώσας ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-193-1 ἀλλ’ ἡνίκ’ ²⁵⁷ οὐκ ἔπειθε ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-193-2 τὸν φυτοσπόρον ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-194-1 κρύφιον ὡς ἔχοι λέχος ²⁶⁰ αἰτίαν ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-194-2 ἑτοιμάσας ²⁶²

mvp-comment-194-3 362—

mvp-comment-195-1 ἐπιστρατεύει … ἄνακτα πατέρα ²⁶³ τόνδ’ ²⁶⁴ τῶνδ’ ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-195-2 (1) It was needless to say that the girl's

was also the realm of Eurytus: cp. 244 f.: 283 ff.: 315. The excuse must be that the Messenger himself had not yet said so; he is wordy, and anxious, in his own fashion, to be lucid. The reading τόνδ’ ²⁶⁶ τῶνδ’ ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-195-3 (2) Heracles is subject to ἐπιστρατεύει ²⁶⁸ κτείνει ²⁶⁹ εἶπε ²⁷⁰ δεσπόζειν ²⁷¹ εἶπε ²⁷²

mvp-comment-195-4 (3) At v. 377 Deianeira asks,

| ; i.e., ‘is she of obscure birth?’—and then, for the first time, learns that the girl's father is Eurytus. So she must have understood ἄνακτα ²⁷³

mvp-comment-195-5 The only course which removes all these three difficulties is Hartung's,—who brackets the words τὴν ταύτης … πατέρα ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-195-6 Others read τῶν Εὐρύτου τόνδ’, rendering: ‘in which (Lichas) said that Heracles (

) holds’ [or ‘wishes to hold’] the throne of Eurytus.’ But Heracles simply laid Oechalia waste; there was no question of his reigning there.—Wecklein ingeniously reads τὸν ἐργάτην ²⁷⁵ τῶνδ’ ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-195-7 For the change of tenses, cp. Ant.406 n.

mvp-comment-196-1 ἥκει ²⁷⁷ ἔπερσε ²⁷⁸ ἐντεθέρμανται ²⁷⁹ ἥκει ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-196-2 δόμους ὡς τούσδε ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-197-1 οὐδ’ εἰκός ²⁸²

mvp-comment-197-2 ἐντεθέρμανται ²⁸³ ἐν‐ ²⁸⁴ ἐκ‐ ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-198-1 πρὸς μέσῃ Τραχινίων ἀγορᾷ ²⁸⁶ ἐν ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-198-2 ἀγορᾷ ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-198-3 Join ὡσαύτως ἐμοί ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-199-1 τὸ δ’ ὀρθὸν ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-200-1 ποῦ … πράγματος ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-200-2 ὑπόστεγον ²⁹²

mvp-comment-201-1 ὦ δὐστηνος ²⁹³ πέφυκεν ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-201-2 This question seems strange after the words κτείνει τ’ ἄνακτα πατέρα τῆσδε ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-201-3 διώμνυτο ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-202-1 ἦ κάρτα ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-202-2 The conject. ὄνομα ²⁹⁸ ὄμμα ²⁹⁹ ἆρ’ ἀνώνυμος πέφυκεν ³⁰⁰ ὄνομα ³⁰¹ φύσιν ³⁰² κατ’ ὄμμα ³⁰³

mvp-comment-202-3 φύσιν ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-202-4 In some ancient texts this verse was given to Deianeira. Among recent editors, Paley shares that view. But: (1) If Deianeira has already answered her own question, the Messenger's speech opens weakly with v. 380. (2) It agrees best with the practice of Sophocles to suppose that ἦ κάρτα ³⁰⁵ ἢ ³⁰⁶ ἦ ³⁰⁷ φύσιν ³⁰⁸ διώμνυτο ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-203-1 πατρὸς μὲν οὖσα ³¹⁰ Ἰόλη )καλεῖτο ³¹¹ ποτέ ³¹² )καλεῖτο ³¹³ οὖσα ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-203-2 Ἰόλη ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-203-3 τῆς ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-204-1 βλάστας ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-204-2 οὐδὲν ἱστορῶν ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-204-3 Many editors place a comma after ἐφώνει ³¹⁹ δῆθεν ³²⁰ δῆθεν ³²¹ οὐδὲν ἱστορῶν ³²²

mvp-comment-205-1 ὄλοιντο ³²³

mvp-comment-205-2 The comment is aimed at Lichas in the first instance; but its vague form seems purposed, so that the hearers may extend it, if they please, to Heracles. Deianeira herself is in doubt whether the dissimulation practised by Lichas was prompted by her lord (449): Lichas explains that it was not so (479 f.). The schol.'s paraphrase shows that he wished to punctuate thus:

, etc.: ‘perish, not all men, but the evil; and (especially) he,’ etc.

mvp-comment-205-3 τὰ δὲ ³²⁴ δὲ ³²⁵

mvp-comment-205-4 μὴ ³²⁶ πρέπονθ’ αὑτῷ ³²⁷

mvp-comment-206-1 ποεῖν ³²⁸

mvp-comment-207-1 πεύθου ³²⁹ πυθοῦ ³³⁰

mvp-comment-207-2 σαφῆ ³³¹

mvp-comment-208-1 οὐκ ἀπὸ γνώμης ³³²

mvp-comment-208-2 The accent in L here,

, represents the theory that this prep. should be paroxytone when it means ‘at a distance from,’ as in the phrases cited above, and in ( Il.9. 353 ), ( ib. 437), etc. But this was merely a refinement due to comparatively late grammarians: see Ellendt, Lex. Soph. p. 79 a: Matthiae Gr. § 572 n. b.

mvp-comment-209-1 οὐκ ἐμῶν ὑπ’ ἀγγέλων ³³³ αὐτόκλητος ³³⁴

mvp-comment-210-1 ὡς ὁρᾷς ³³⁵ εἰσορᾷς ³³⁶ εἰσορᾷς ³³⁷ ὡς ³³⁸ ἕρποντος ἐμοῦ, εἰσορᾷς ³³⁹ ὡς ἕρποντος ἐμοῦ ³⁴⁰ εἰσορᾷς ³⁴¹ εἰσορᾷς ὡς ἕρποντος ἐμοῦ ³⁴² εἰσορᾷς ³⁴³

mvp-comment-210-2 As regards ὡς ὁρᾷς ³⁴⁴ ὡς ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-211-1 ἐκ ταχείας ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-211-2 σὺν χρόνῳ … βραδεῖ ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-211-3 πρὶν ἡμᾶς κἀννεώσασθαι λόγους ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-212-1 ἦ καὶ ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-212-2 τὸ πιστὸν τῆς ἀλη‐ ³⁵⁰ θείας ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-212-3 νεμεῖς ³⁵²

mvp-comment-212-4 Even without the hint in the schol. (cr. n.), it would have been clear that νεμεῖς ³⁵³ νέμεις ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-213-1 As to Nauck's change in the order of these verses (cr. n.), it is enough to observe that (1) Lichas could not reply to the question of his

with such a rebuff as σὺ δ’ εἰς τί δή με ³⁵⁵ τόλμησον εἰπεῖν, εἰ φρονεῖς ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-214-1 οὗτος, βλέφ’ ὧδε ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-215-1 σὺ δ’ ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-216-1 τόλμησον ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-216-2 εἰ φρονεῖς ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-216-3 ἱστορῶ ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-216-4 406 f. If δάμαρτα ³⁶² δεσπότιν ³⁶³ θ’ ³⁶⁴ δ’ ³⁶⁵ δέ … δέ ³⁶⁶ τε … τε. — λεύσσων μάταια ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-217-1 δίκαια ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-218-1 δίκαιος ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-219-1 ποικίλας ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-220-1 ἱστορούμενος ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-221-1 κάτοισθα ³⁷²

mvp-comment-222-1 ἣν ὑπ’ ἀγνοίας ὁρᾷς ³⁷³ ὑπ’ ἀγνοίας ³⁷⁴ ὑπ’ ἀγνοίας ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-222-2 On the whole, I do not feel sure that there is a corruption. If there is, it probably lies deep. Some conjectures are noticed in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-223-1 τίς πόθεν μολὼν ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-224-1 πολλοῖσιν ἀστῶν ³⁷⁷ ποίοις ἐν ἀνθρώποισι ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-224-2 ἀγορᾷ ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-224-3 ταῦτά ³⁸⁰ γ’ ³⁸¹ γε ³⁸²

mvp-comment-224-4 425 If the MS. ναί ³⁸³ γε ³⁸⁴ κλύειν ³⁸⁵ ναί ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-224-5 ταὐτὸ ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-224-6 426 The antithesis is between the whole phrases, δόκησιν ³⁸⁸ ἐξακριβῶσαι ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-225-1 ποίαν δόκησιν ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-226-1 ἐγὼ δάμαρτα ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-226-2 431 The emphatic σοῦ ³⁹² σου ³⁹³ ἤκουσεν ³⁹⁴ ἤκουσα ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-227-1 ἡ Λυδία ³⁹⁶ ἡ Λυδία ³⁹⁷ ὁ τῆσδ’ ἔρως φανείς ³⁹⁸ ὡς ταύτης πόθῳ ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-228-1 ἀποστήτω ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-229-1 πρός σε τοῦ … Διός ⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-229-2 νάπος ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-229-3 ἐκκλέψῃς λόγον ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-230-1 Deianeira argues:—(1) 438 —448: he need not fear that she will feel rancour against Heracles or Iolè: (2) 449—454: falsehood would be disgraceful for him,—and, if his motive were kind, useless: (3) 455 f.: detection would be certain: (4) 457 ff.: he need not be afraid of paining her. (5) In vv. 461— 467 she returns to the first topic.

mvp-comment-230-2 κακῇ ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-230-3 τἀνθρώπων ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-230-4 πέφυκεν ⁴⁰⁶ πεφύκας’ ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-231-1 Ἔρωτι μέν νυν ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-231-2 πύκτης ὅπως ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-231-3 οὐ καλῶς φρονεῖ ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-232-1 ἄρχει καὶ θεῶν ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-233-1 κἀμοῦ γε ⁴¹² γε ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-233-2 πῶς δ’ οὐ ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-233-3 οἵας γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁴¹⁵ γε ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-233-4 Wunder and Nauck reject this beautiful verse, because: (1) by

Deianeira implies that she is stronger than the gods; and also that she has been untrue to her husband: (2) she cannot assume that Iolè returns the passion of Heracles; nor does Iolè's feeling come into account here.

mvp-comment-234-1 τὠμῷ τ’ ἀνδρὶ ⁴¹⁷ τε ⁴¹⁸ ἢ ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-234-2 τῇδε τῇ νόσῳ ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-234-3 μεμπτός ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-235-1 τοῦ μηδὲν αἰσχροῦ ⁴²² μηδ’ ἐμοὶ κακοῦ τινος ⁴²³ τοῦ ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-235-2 This is a remarkable passage, and it is of some moment to understand it rightly. The meaning is not merely that Iolè's relation to Heracles was excused by the omnipotence of Erôs. Concubinage (

) was not merely tolerated by Athenian opinion, but, in some measure, protected by law (see e.g. , Lys. or. 1 § 31 : Isae. or. 8 § 39 ). Its relation to the life of the family is illustrated by the Andromachè of Euripides; for though Andromachè is Trojan, and Hermionè Spartan, the sentiments are Athenian. A wife ( ) who tolerates a is there represented as proving her goodness of heart ( , 226), and her wise moderation (938—942); she ought to be consoled by her higher place, and by the advantage which her children will have over the .

mvp-comment-235-3 But is Deianeira in earnest here; or is she feigning acquiescence, to reassure Lichas? Presently she tells the Chorus that she cannot endure to share her home with Iolè (539—546). Probably Sophocles meant her to be sincere in both places. The faith in her own power to bear the trial is natural at this moment of excitement and suspense. Not less so is the reaction, when she knows the worst, and has had time to think.

mvp-comment-236-1 οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτ)· ἀλλ’ ⁴²⁵ οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-236-2 μαθὼν … ἐκμανθάνεις ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-237-1 αὑτὸν ⁴²⁸ ὀφθήσει ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-238-1 κὴρ ⁴³⁰ πρόσεστιν ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-239-1 ὅπως δὲ λήσεις ⁴³² ὅπως δὲ λήσεις ⁴³³

mvp-comment-240-1 δέδοικας … ταρβεῖς ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-240-2 τοῦτο ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-241-1 πλείστας ἀνὴρ εἷς ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-241-2 ἔγημε ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-241-3 The legendary loves of Heracles were as numerous as the local myths which claimed Heracleid <*>escent for clans or houses. Thus his bride Megara connected him with Thebes; Astydameia, with Thessaly; Astyochè, with Epeirus; Epicastè, with Elis; Parthenopè, with Arcadia; Chalciopè, with Cos; the Thespiades, with Sardinia; and so forth. The number of his sons finally grew to about seventy, whose mothers are enumerated by Apollodorus (2. 7. 8).

mvp-comment-242-1 ἠνέγκατ’ ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-242-2 ἥδε τε, οὐδ’ εἰ … ἐντακείῃ ⁴³⁹ ἂν ⁴⁴⁰ οὐδ’ ⁴⁴¹ εἰ ⁴⁴² ἂν ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-242-3 ἐντακείη τῷ φιλεῖν ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-242-4 ἐντακείη ⁴⁴⁵ τῷ φιλεῖν ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-242-5 The conject. ἐκτακείη ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-243-1 ᾤκτιρα ⁴⁴⁸ δὴ ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-244-1 ῥείτω κατ’ οὖρον ⁴⁵⁰ ἴτω ⁴⁵¹ οὖρον ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-244-2 κακὸν ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-244-3 πρὸς ἄλλον ⁴⁵⁴ κακὸν ⁴⁵⁵ πρὸς ἄλλον εἶναι ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-245-1 πιθοῦ λεγούσῃ ⁴⁵⁷ πείθου ⁴⁵⁸ πιθοῦ ⁴⁵⁹ γυναικὶ τῇδε ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-246-1 ἀλλ’ ⁴⁶¹ θνητὴν φρονοῦσαν θνητὰ ⁴⁶² ἀγνώμονα ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-247-1 κρύψομαι ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-248-1 ἔστιν γὰρ οὕτως ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-249-1 ταύτης ὁ δεινὸς ἵμερος ⁴⁶⁶ ὁ δεινὸς ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-249-2 ποθ’ ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-249-3 διῆλθε ⁴⁶⁹ τῆσδ’ ⁴⁷⁰ ταύτης ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-249-4 ἡ πολύφθορος ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-249-5 πατρῷος ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-250-1 καὶ τὸ πρὸς κείνου ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-251-1 εἴ τι τήνδ’ ἁμαρτ. ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-251-2 νέμεις ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-252-1 γε μὲν δὴ ⁴⁷⁷ ἐπεὶ ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-253-1 στέργε ⁴⁷⁹ ἐς ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-253-2 ἐμπέδως ⁴⁸¹ ἐμπέδους ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-253-3 488 f. Either τἄλλ’ ⁴⁸³ χεροῖν ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-254-1 καὶ ⁴⁸⁵ φρονοῦμεν ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-255-1 νόσον γ’ ἐπακτὸν ἐξαρούμεθα ⁴⁸⁷ ἐπακτὸν ⁴⁸⁸ γε ⁴⁸⁹ ἐξαρούμεθα ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-255-2 Others understand:—(1) ‘I shall not heighten the trouble already brought upon me by others’ (viz., the introduction of Iolè into the house, 376). But this sense for ἐξαρούμεθα ⁴⁹¹ γε ⁴⁹² νόσημ’ ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-255-3 θεοῖσι δυσμαχοῦντες ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-256-1 λόγων τ’ ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-256-2 λόγων … ἐπιστολὰς ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-257-1 προσαρμόσαι ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-257-2 This is the first mention of the fateful gift. An unobtrusive significance is given to it by two traits of expression. (1)

is drawn into the relative clause ( O. C.907 n.), and resumed, with a light emphasis, in : cp. Ph.1247 , | . (2) A pause follows the second foot of the verse ( ). Cp. 27 n.

mvp-comment-257-3 ἄγῃς ⁴⁹⁸ φέρῃς ⁴⁹⁹ δίκαια ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-257-4 ὧδε ⁵⁰¹ σὺν π. στόλῳ ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-258-1 μέγα τι σθένος … νίκας ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-258-2 ἐκφέρεται ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-259-1 θεῶν ⁵⁰⁵ παρέβαν ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-259-2 Κρονίδαν ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-260-1 τὸν ἔννυχον Ἅιδαν ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-261-1 Ποσειδάωνα ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-261-2 τινάκτορα γαίας ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-262-1 ἐπὶ τάνδ’ … ἄκοιτιν ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-262-2 Other explanations of

here are these:—(1) ‘With massive limbs,’— being intensive. (2) ‘Dexterous combatants’: cp. . (3) ‘Of dissimilar forms,’— i.e., man and bull.

mvp-comment-262-3 κατέβαν ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-263-1 πάμπληκτα ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-263-2 παγκόνιτά τ’ ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-263-3 ἐξῆλθον ἄεθλ’ ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-263-4 ἄεθλα ⁵¹⁶ ἀγώνων ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-264-1 ποταμοῦ σθένος ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-264-2 φάσμα ταύρου ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-264-3 Acheloüs fights, then, as the

,—not merely as the (12). Sophocles is here following the traditional version. The Homeric Scamander, in conflict with Achilles, roars ‘like a bull’ ( , Il.21. 237 ). (says the schol. there) . The taurine form was given to Acheloüs, in that combat, by Archilochus (schol. ib.), by Pindar (schol. Il.21. 194 ), and by the logographer Pherecydes ( Apollod.2. 6. 5 ): perhaps, too, by Panyasis, the author of an epic . An engraved gem in the British Museum (King, Antique Gems II. pl. 34, fig. 3) shows Acheloüs as a bull, preparing to butt at Heracles. The gem is older than the time of Sophocles, and may, as Mr. Murray S. thinks, have followed the rendering of this subject on the still more archaic throne of Apollo at Amyclae ( Paus.3. 18. 5 ). Cp. n. on 520. This fight was a favourite theme in art: for the literature, see Roscher, Lex.p. 9.

mvp-comment-264-4 Ovid ( Met. 9. 1—100 ) departs from the old Greek version: his Acheloüs begins the fight in quasi-human form,—then turns into a serpent (63) ,—and then, as a last resource into a bull (80) .

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀπ’ Οἰνιαδᾶν ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-265-2 Oeniadae was some twelve miles W.S.W. of Pleuron. As Heracles arrives from his famous home to the east, so it is fitting that the river-god should come from the western town which was a chief seat of his worship. The head of the Acheloüs appears on coins of Oeniadae.

mvp-comment-266-1 Βακχίας ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-266-2 ἀπὸ ⁵²² ἄπο ⁵²³

mvp-comment-267-1 παλίντονα ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-267-2 λόγχας ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-267-3 ῥόπαλον ⁵²⁶ λόγχας ⁵²⁷ ῥόπαλον ⁵²⁸ τόξα ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-268-1 ἀολλεῖς ⁵³⁰ ἐς μέσον ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-269-1 μόνα δ’ ⁵³²

mvp-comment-269-2 ἐν μέσῳ ⁵³³

mvp-comment-269-3 ῥαβδονόμει ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-269-4 Aphroditè is here the only person near the two combatants ( ξυνοῦσα ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-270-1 τότ’ ἦν χερός ⁵³⁶ χερὸς πάταγος ⁵³⁷ ἀμφίπλεκτοι κλίμακες ⁵³⁸ μετώπων πλήγματα ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-270-2 For ἦν ⁵⁴⁰ ἦν δὲ ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-271-1 ἀνάμιγδα ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-271-2 κεράτων ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-272-1 ἦν ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-272-2 ἀμφίπλεκτοι κλίμακες ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-272-3 At any rate

was a familiar term in Greek wrestling: cp. Plato comicus fr. 2 (explained by Hesych. as ). For a like use of wrestling terms, cp. Ar. Eq.262 f. —One of the subjects on the archaic throne of Apollo at Amyclae was ( Paus.3. 18. 5 ).

mvp-comment-273-1 μετώπων … πλήγματα ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-274-1 τηλαυγεῖ ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-274-2 ὄχθῳ ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-274-3 τὸν ὃν ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-275-1 †ἐγὼ δὲ μάτηρ† μὲν οἷα φράζω ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-275-2 The true key to this passage depends on observing the sequence of topics. (1) In 517—522,

, we have a brief picture of the fight. (2) Then vv. 523—525, , mark Deianeira's suspense. (3) Next comes the obscure parenthesis, . (4) And then we return, at v. 527, to Deianeira's suspense,—not, however, in a form which adds anything new to vv. 523 —525, but in one which merely repeats their substance:— .

mvp-comment-275-3 Now, to justify such a repetition, it is manifest that (2) and (4) should be separated, not by a mere parenthesis, such as (3) now is, but by some further allusion to the fight. This inference is strengthened by the phrase,

, which gains point if a reference to the has immediately preceded.

mvp-comment-275-4 I believe that ἐγὼ ⁵⁵¹ ἀγὼν ⁵⁵² φράζω ⁵⁵³ ἀγὼν δὲ μαργᾷ μέν, οἷα φράζω ⁵⁵⁴ τὸ δ’ ἀμφινείκητον ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-276-1 ὄμμα ⁵⁵⁶ ὄμμα νύμφας ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-276-2 ἐλεινὸν ἀμμένει ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-277-1 κἀπὸ ματρὸς ἄφαρ βέβακεν ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-277-2 ἄφαρ ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-278-1 ὥστε ⁵⁶¹ ὥσπερ ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-278-2 πόρτις ἐρήμα ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-279-1 ἦμος ⁵⁶⁴ τῆμος ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-279-2 ὁ ξένος ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-279-3 θροεῖ ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-279-4 ταῖς αἰχμ. παισὶν ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-279-5 ὡς ἐπ’ ἐξόδῳ ⁵⁶⁹ ἐπ’ ἐξόδῳ ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-279-6 θυραῖος ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-280-1 τὰ μὲν ⁵⁷² τὰ δ’ ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-280-2 χερσὶν ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-280-3 συγκατοικτιουμένη ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-281-1 κόρην ⁵⁷⁶ ἐζευγμένην ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-282-1 παρεισδέδεγμαι ⁵⁷⁸ φόρ‐ ⁵⁷⁹ τον ⁵⁸⁰ παρεισδέδεγμαι ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-282-2 λωβητὸν ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-282-3 ἐμπόλημα ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-282-4 τῆς ἐμῆς φρενός ⁵⁸⁴ λωβητὸν ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-283-1 δὔ οὖσαι ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-283-2 μιᾶς ὑπὸ χλαίνης ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-283-3 ὑπαγκάλισμα ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-283-4 Mr Murray S. has shown me a curious illustration of this passage. A vase of the 6th cent. B.C., now in the British Museum, depicts two women under the same

,—a symbolical representation, perhaps, of a common grief.

mvp-comment-284-1 ὁ … ἡμῖν καλούμενος ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-284-2 πιστός ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-285-1 οἰκούρια ⁵⁹¹ τοῦ μακροῦ χρόνου ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-286-1 οὐκ ἐπίσταμαι ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-286-2 τῇδε τῇ νόσῳ ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-287-1 τὸ δ’ αὖ ξυνοικεῖν ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-288-1 The text of this passage is, I believe, sound, though the diction is bold, and somewhat careless. The one

(Iolè's) is growing to the perfect flower, while the other (Deianeira's) is declining. (Cp. Ar. Lys.596 .) In what follows, these points may be noted.

mvp-comment-288-2 (1) ὧν ⁵⁹⁶ ὧν ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-288-3 (2) τῶν δ’ ὑπεκτρέπει πόδα ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-288-4 (3) ἀφαρπάζειν ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-288-5 (4) ὀφθαλμὸς ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-289-1 ταῦτ’ οὖν ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-289-2 καλῆται ⁶⁰² καλεῖται ⁶⁰³ καλῆται ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-289-3 ἀνήρ ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-290-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ γάρ ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-290-2 553 f. The MSS. have ᾗ δ’ ἔχω ⁶⁰⁷ λυτήριον λύπημα ⁶⁰⁸ λύπημα ⁶⁰⁹ λώφημα ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-290-3 Deianeira is here speaking of an expedient which gives her some hope, indeed, but no assured confidence (590 f.). This exactly suits the usage of

and its derivatives, which denote the alleviation of evil,—not its complete removal. Cp. Ai.61 . Thuc.6. 12 . Plat. Legg. 854 C

ἐὰν μέν σοι δρῶντι ταῦτα λωφᾷ τι τὸ νόσημα

. Thuc. uses , ‘abatement’ ( 4. 81

τοῦ πολέμου

). Deianeira, in bethinking her of the philtre, has found that which holds out a promise of deliverance, and assuages, though it does not cure, her pain,—a .

mvp-comment-290-4 The attempted versions of

have been these:—(1) With a comma after : ‘a thing to grieve this girl, for my deliverance’:—a grammatically sound phrase, but wholly unsuited to Deianeira, whose aim is to be more loved than Iolè (584 ff.),—but not to pain her. (2) Taking as= : ‘how I find that my pain is remediable.’ This is impossible. (3) Governing by : ‘how I have a thing to remedy my pain.’ Also impossible.

mvp-comment-290-5 Paley, changing ἔχω ⁶¹¹ ἔχει ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-291-1 ἦν μοι ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-291-2 ποτὲ ⁶¹⁴ δῶρον ⁶¹⁵ θηρός ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-291-3 παλαιὸν ⁶¹⁷ ἀρχαίου ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-291-4 θηρός ⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-291-5 λέβητι ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-292-1 δασυστέρνου ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-292-2 παρὰ Νέσσου ⁶²² ἐκ φονῶν ⁶²³ φόνων ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-292-3 The name Νέσσος ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-293-1 τὸν βαθύρρουν … Εὔηνον ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-293-2 The association of Nessus with the Evenus well illustrates the significance of the Centaur as a personification of a ravaging torrent. (Cp. Mr Sidney Colvin in Journ. of Hellen. Stud. vol. I. p. 160: also Mure, Tour in Greece, I. 170.) In Ov. Met.2. 638 a daughter of the Centaur Cheiron is called Ocyroe (

), because born

mvp-comment-293-3 ποταμὸν … βροτοὺς … )πόρευε ⁶²⁷ )πόρευε ⁶²⁸ θοῦ ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-294-1 τὸν πατρῷον … στόλον ⁶³⁰ ἑσπόμην ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-294-2 The soundness of the words is confirmed by their dramatic fitness. There is a tacit contrast in her thoughts between herself and the new paramour; she thinks of the long-past day when her father gave her to her husband, and sent her forth with him. The words also accord with that tone of passivity in which she has already spoken of her marriage (6—27). She welcomed Heracles as a deliverer, and has learned to love him; but she had no voice in the bestowal of her hand.— Cp. fr. 521 (the young girl is happy at home, but the bride is sent forth by her parents to a doubtful fate):

| | ... | , | .—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-294-3 εὖνις ⁶³²

mvp-comment-295-1 φέρων ἐπ’ ὤμοις ⁶³³

mvp-comment-295-2 ἦ ⁶³⁴ ἦν ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-295-3 μέσῳ πόρῳ ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-295-4 ἐκ δ’ ἤϋσ’ ἐγώ ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-296-1 ἐπιστρέψας ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-296-2 κομήτην ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-296-3 πλεύμονας ⁶⁴⁰ ν ⁶⁴¹ λ ⁶⁴² λ ⁶⁴³ λ ⁶⁴⁴ ν ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-296-4 ἐκθνῄσκων ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-296-5 569 ff. For τοσοῦτον ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-296-6 τῶν ἐμῶν … πορθμῶν ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-297-1 ἐὰν γὰρ … ὕδρας ⁶⁴⁹ τῶν ἐμῶν σφαγῶν ⁶⁵⁰ ἀμφίθρεπτον ⁶⁵¹ ἐνέγκῃ χερσίν ⁶⁵² ᾗ μελαγχόλους ⁶⁵³ μελαγχόλους ⁶⁵⁴ ἰούς ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-297-2 θρέμμα … ὕδρας ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-297-3 Others explain thus:—‘If thou gather the blood from my wound, clotted around ( the arrow), at the place where the hydra has tinged it,’ etc., i.e., at the arrow's head. This is quite possible, but is open to objections. (1) The language in 557 f. (

) implies that she obtained the blood directly from the body, not from the arrow-head. (2) The phrase ἐνέγκῃ χερσίν ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-297-4 If we adopted the conjecture μελάγχολος … ἰός ⁶⁵⁸ θρέμμα ⁶⁵⁹ ἔβαψεν ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-297-5 Ovid describes the incident thus:—The arrow is withdrawn, and the blood flows from the wound,

Nessus then presents Deianeira with a garment steeped in the blood ( ): Met.9. 129 ff.

mvp-comment-298-1 ὥστε μήτιν’ εἰσιδὼν στέρξει ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-298-2 ἀντὶ σοῦ ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-299-1 ἐννοήσας’ ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-299-2 δόμοις ⁶⁶⁴ ἐγκεκλῃμένον ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-300-1 χιτῶνα τόνδ’ ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-300-2 ἔβαψα ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-300-3 προσβαλοῦς’ ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-301-1 πεπείρανται ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-302-1 κακὰς δὲ τόλμας ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-302-2 μήτ’ ἐπισταίμην …, μήτ’ ἐκμάθοιμι ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-302-3 στυγῶ ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-303-1 φίλτροις δ’ ἐάν πως ⁶⁷³ μεμηχάνηται τοὔργον ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-303-2 ὑπερβαλώμεθα ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-303-3 τὴν παῖδα ⁶⁷⁶ θέλκτροισι ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-303-4 εἴ τι μὴ ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-303-5 μάταιον ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-303-6 εἰ δὲ μή ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-304-1 πίστις ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-304-2 590 f. The whole phrase οὕτως ἔχει ⁶⁸² γε ⁶⁸³ πίστις ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-304-3 ὡς ⁶⁸⁵ οὕτως ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-304-4 τὸ μὲν δοκεῖν ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-304-5 πείρᾳ δ’ οὐ προσωμίλησα ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-305-1 δρῶσαν ⁶⁸⁹ γνῶμα ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-306-1 ἀλλ’ αὐτίκ’ ⁶⁹¹ ἐλεύσεται ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-307-1 μόνον ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-307-2 παρ’ ὑμῶν ⁶⁹⁴ παρ’ ὑμῖν ⁶⁹⁵ στεγώμεθ’ ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-307-3 αἰσχύνῃ πεσεῖ ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-308-1 τῷ μακρῷ χρόνῳ ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-309-1 αὐτὰ … ταῦτα ⁶⁹⁹ καὶ ⁷⁰⁰ πράσσω ⁷⁰¹ ἠγορῶ ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-309-2 ταναϋφῆ ⁷⁰³ τόνδε γ’ εὐϋφῆ ⁷⁰⁴ ἀϋφῆ ⁷⁰⁵ ταναϋφῆ ⁷⁰⁶ γε ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-309-3 πέπλον ⁷⁰⁸ τόνδε ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-310-1 φράζ’ ὅπως μηδεὶς … ἀμφιδύσεται ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-311-1 ἕρκος ἱερὸν ⁷¹¹ ἐφέστιον σέλας ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-312-1 φανερὸς ⁷¹³ ἐμφανῶς ⁷¹⁴ σταθεὶς ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-313-1 ηὔγμην ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-314-1 πανδίκως ⁷¹⁷ στελεῖν ⁷¹⁸ σωθέντ’ ⁷¹⁹ πανδίκως ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-315-1 καινῷ καινὸν ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-315-2 As to the wearing of new, or freshly washed, garments on such occasions, cp. Od.4. 750 (Penelope is to pray to Athena)

.

mvp-comment-316-1 καὶ τῶνδ’ ἀποίσεις ⁷²²

mvp-comment-316-2 ἐπὸν μαθήσεται ⁷²³ ἐπ’ ὄμμα θήσεται ⁷²⁴ ν ⁷²⁵ μ ⁷²⁶ εὐμαθὲς … μαθήσεται ⁷²⁷ ὃ ⁷²⁸ ἐπιθήσεται ὄμμα ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-317-1 νόμον ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-317-2 τὸ μὴ )πιθυμεῖν πομπὸς ὢν ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-318-1 ὅπως ἂν ⁷³² χάρις ⁷³³ ἁπλῆ ⁷³⁴ διπλῆ ⁷³⁵ κείνου τε κἀμοῦ ⁷³⁶ ξυνελθοῦς’ ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-319-1 εἴπερ Ἑρμοῦ ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-319-2 πομπεύω ⁷³⁹ τέχνην ⁷⁴⁰ βέβαιον ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-319-3 οὔ τι μὴ ⁷⁴² οὔ τοι μὴ ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-319-4 τὸ μὴ οὐ ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-319-5 ἄγγος ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-319-6 ὡς ἔχει ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-320-1 λόγων … πίστιν ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-320-2 ἐφαρμόσαι ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-320-3 λέγεις ⁷⁴⁹ ἔχεις ⁷⁵⁰ ἔχει ⁷⁵¹ ἐφεῖς’ ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-321-1 στείχοις ἂν ἤδη ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-322-1 σεσωσμένα ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-322-2 627 f. For ἀλλὰ … μὲν δὴ ⁷⁵⁵ αὐτὴν ⁷⁵⁶ αὐτήν θ’ ⁷⁵⁷ τὰ τῆς ξένης προσδέγματα ⁷⁵⁸ αὐτὴν ὡς ἐδεξάμην φίλως ⁷⁵⁹ οἶσθα ⁷⁶⁰ τὰ τῆς ξένης προσδέγματα ⁷⁶¹ φίλως ⁷⁶² αὐτήν θ’ ⁷⁶³ θ’ ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-323-1 ἐκπλαγῆναι ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-324-1 πρὼ| ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-324-2 μὴ … λέγοις ἂν ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-324-3 τὸν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-325-1 τἀκεῖθεν ⁷⁶⁹ εἰδέναι ⁷⁷⁰ εἰ ποθούμεθα ⁷⁷¹ δέδοικα ⁷⁷² ἐμοῦ ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-326-1 <*> ναύλοχα ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-326-2 θερμὰ λουτρὰ ⁷⁷⁵ να<*>λοχα ⁷⁷⁶ πετραῖα ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-326-3 ναύλοχα ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-326-4 πάγους Οἴτας ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-326-5 παραναιετάοντες ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-326-6 οἵ ⁷⁸¹ τε ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-326-7 χρυσαλακάτου τ’ ἀκτὰν κόρας ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-326-8 χρυσαλακάτου ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-327-1 ἔνθ’ Ἑλλάνων ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-327-2 Ἑλλάνων ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-327-3 ἀγοραὶ Πυλάτιδες ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-327-4 κλέονται ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-328-1 ἀναρσίαν ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-328-2 ἐπάνεισιν ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-328-3 θείας … μούσας ⁷⁹¹ ἀντίλυρον ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-328-4 ἀχῶν ⁷⁹³ ἰάχων ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-329-1 ὁ Διὸς … Ἀλκμήνας κόρος ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-330-1 σοῦται ⁷⁹⁶ σεῦται ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-330-2 πάσας ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-331-1 ὃν ἀπόπτολιν εἴχομεν ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-331-2 παντᾷ ⁸⁰⁰ ἀπόπτολιν ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-331-3 δυοκαιδεκάμηνον … χρόνον ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-331-4 πελάγιον ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-332-1 ἁ δέ οἱ … δάμαρ ⁸⁰⁴ οἱ ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-333-1 τάλαιναν ⁸⁰⁶ τάλαινα ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-333-2 ὤλλυτο ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-334-1 Ἄρης ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-334-2 οἰστρηθεὶς ⁸¹⁰ αὖ ⁸¹¹ οἱ ⁸¹² στρωθεὶς ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-334-3 ἐξέλυσ’ ἐπίπονονἁμέραν ⁸¹⁴ ἐπίπονον ἁμέραν ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-335-1 ὄχημα ναὸς ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-336-1 πρὶν … ἀνύσειε ⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-337-1 ἑστίαν ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-337-2 ἀμείψας ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-337-3 κλῄζεται θυτήρ ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-338-1 πανίμερος ⁸²¹ πανάμερος ⁸²²

mvp-comment-339-1 τᾶς πειθοῦς παγχρίστῳ ⁸²³

mvp-comment-339-2 Let us now examine the text in detail.

mvp-comment-339-3 (1) παγχρίστῳ ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-339-4 (2) The words ἐπὶ προφάσει θηρός ⁸²⁵ φάρους ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-339-5 (3) For συγκραθεὶς ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-339-6 There remains, however, the metrical discrepancy between συγκραθεὶς ⁸²⁸ ἐξέλυς’ ⁸²⁹ ἐξείλυς’ ⁸³⁰ συντακεὶς ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-339-7 Either

or would here admit a secondary sense, unconsciously prophetic of the dire event (833 : 836 ),— like in 494.—For other views, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-340-1 περαιτέρω ⁸³²

mvp-comment-341-1 Δῃάνειρα, τέκνον Οἰνέως ⁸³³

mvp-comment-342-1 ἀθυμῶ δ’, εἰ φανήσομαι ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-343-1 οὐ δή ⁸³⁵ τι ⁸³⁶ ἐλπίδος ⁸³⁷ τι ⁸³⁸ δωρημάτων ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-344-1 ὥστε μήποτ’ ἂν παραινέσαι ⁸⁴⁰ προθυμίαν … ἔργου ⁸⁴¹ ἄδηλον ⁸⁴² λαβεῖν ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-345-1 εἰ διδακτόν ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-346-1 οἷον, ἢν φράσω ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-346-2 (1) To retain ὑμῖν ⁸⁴⁶ μαθεῖν ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-346-3 (2) To read ὑμᾶς ⁸⁴⁸ ὑμῖν ⁸⁴⁹ φράσω ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-346-4 Others, taking μαθεῖν ⁸⁵¹ θαῦμ’ ἀνέλπιστον ⁸⁵² ἂν φράσαι ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-347-1 τὸν ἐνδυτῆρα πέπλον ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-348-1 ἀργὴς … πόκος ⁸⁵⁵ ἀργῆτ’ … πόκῳ ⁸⁵⁶ ἀργῆτ’ ⁸⁵⁷ ἀργῆτα ⁸⁵⁸ τὸν ἐνδυτῆρα πέπλον ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-348-2 Blaydes suggests

: but the usage of precludes this. A change of ἀργὴς … πόκος ⁸⁶⁰ ἀργῆτ’ ⁸⁶¹ πόκῳ ⁸⁶² ᾧ ⁸⁶³ εὐέρου ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-349-1 πρὸς οὐδενὸς ⁸⁶⁵ τῶν ἔνδον ⁸⁶⁶ τῶν ἐκτός ⁸⁶⁷ φθίνει ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-350-1 ψῇ ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-350-2 Such is the only sense which the words will bear. They are perhaps corrupt. Sophocles has the dat. plur.

, in the ordinary sense, ‘sea-rocks,’ in fr. 341; but the sense of the sing. here is peculiar. And vv. 695—698 would naturally suggest that she had thrown the tuft at once on the ground, rather than on a stone from which it afterwards crumbled down.

mvp-comment-350-3 Possibly the true reading is κατ’ ἄκρας σπόδιον ⁸⁷⁰ σπιλάδος ⁸⁷¹ σπ ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-351-1 ἐκτενῶ ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-352-1 γὰρ ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-352-2 ὧν ⁸⁷⁵ θεσμῶν ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-352-3 ὁ θὴρ Κένταυρος ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-352-4 πονῶν πλευρὰν ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-352-5 πικρᾷ ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-352-6 προὐδιδάξατο ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-353-1 θεσμῶν οὐδέν ⁸⁸¹ ἐσῳζόμην ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-354-1 χαλκῆς … δέλτου ⁸⁸³ θεσμῶν ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-355-1 καίμοι ⁸⁸⁵ σῴζειν ⁸⁸⁶ προὐδιδάξατο ⁸⁸⁷ κἄδρων τοιαῦτα ⁸⁸⁸ τοιαῦτ’ ἔδρων ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-356-1 ἄπυρον ⁸⁹⁰ ἄθικτον ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-357-1 ἕως νιν ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-357-2 που ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-358-1 ἔχρισα μὲν ⁸⁹⁴ κἄθηκα ⁸⁹⁵ εἴσω δ’ ⁸⁹⁶ κατ’ οἶκον ⁸⁹⁷ ἐν δόμοις ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-359-1 κτησίου ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀλαμπὲς ἡλίου ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-361-1 ζυγάστρῳ ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-361-2 κοίλῳ ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-362-1 εἴσω δ’ ἀποστείχουσα ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-362-2 φάτιν ⁹⁰⁴ ἄφραστον ⁹⁰⁵ ἀξύμβλητον ⁹⁰⁶ ἀνθρώπῳ μαθεῖν ⁹⁰⁷ ἀξύμβλητον ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-363-1 κάταγμα ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-363-2 προὔχριον ⁹¹⁰ ἀκτῖν’ ἐς ἡλιῶτιν ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-363-3 Wunder rashly rejects the verse. Dobree's objection to it seems to have been the repeated ἐς ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-364-1 ῥεῖ ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-364-2 κατέψηκται ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-365-1 μορφῇ ⁹¹⁵ μάλιστ’ εἰκαστὸν ⁹¹⁶ ὥστε ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-365-2 πρίονος ἐκβρώματ’ ⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-366-1 προπετές ⁹¹⁹ προὔκειτ’, ἀναζέουσι ⁹²⁰ θρομβώδεις ἀφροί ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-367-1 πίονος ποτοῦ γλ. ὀπώρας ἀπὸ Β. ἀμπέλου ⁹²²

mvp-comment-367-2 χυθέντος ⁹²³ Β. ἀπ’ ἀμπέλου ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-367-3 For ὀπώρας ⁹²⁵ Βακχίας ⁹²⁶ πίονος ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-368-1 ποῖ γνώμης πέσω ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-369-1 ὁρῶ δέ μ’ … ἐξειργασμένην ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-370-1 πόθεν ⁹³⁰ ἀντὶ τοῦ ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-370-2 ἂν … παρέσχ’ ⁹³²

mvp-comment-370-3 ἧς … ὕπερ ⁹³³

mvp-comment-371-1 ἀποφθίσαι ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-372-1 ἀρκεῖ ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-372-2 ἄρνυμαι ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-373-1 εἴ τι μὴ ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-373-2 ψευσθήσομαι γνώμης ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-374-1 ἄτρακτον ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-374-2 θεὸν Χείρωνα ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-374-3 πημήναντα ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-374-4 Ovid varies the story. Heracles visited Cheiron on Mount Pelion; a poisoned arrow chanced to fall from the hero's quiver on the left foot of the Centaur.

( Fast. 5. 387—414.)

mvp-comment-374-5 χὧνπερ ⁹⁴² χὥσπερ ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-375-1 ἐκ … σφαγῶν τοῦδε διελθὼν ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-375-2 ἰὸς αἵματος ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-375-3 τόνδε ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-375-4 Others take ἐκ … τοῦδε ⁹⁴⁷ ὅδε ⁹⁴⁸ τοῦδ’ ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-375-5 δόξῃ γοῦν ἐμῇ ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-376-1 σφαλήσεται ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-376-2 For σὺν ⁹⁵²

mvp-comment-377-1 προτιμᾷ ⁹⁵³ κακὴ ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-378-1 ἔργα δείν’ ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-378-2 ἐλπίδ’ ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-379-1 τοῖς μὴ καλοῖς β. ⁹⁵⁷ προξενεῖ ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-380-1 ἀμφὶ ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-380-2 μὴ )ξ ἑκουσίας ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-380-3 πέπειρα ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-381-1 τοιαῦτα δ’ ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-381-2 οἴκοι ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-382-1 ἂν ἁρμόζοι ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-382-2 τὸν πλείω λόγον ⁹⁶⁵ λέξεις ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-382-3 μαστὴρ πατρὸς ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-383-1 ἂν … εἱλόμην ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-383-2 σε ⁹⁶⁹ ἓν ⁹⁷⁰ σε ἢ μηκέτ’ εἶναι ⁹⁷¹ σε ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-383-3 ἐκ τριῶν ἓν ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-383-4 κεκλῆσθαι ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-384-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν … πρός γ’ ἐμοῦ στυγού‐ ⁹⁷⁵ μενον ⁹⁷⁶ πρός γ’ ἐμοῦ ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-385-1 τὸν δ’ ἐμὸν ⁹⁷⁸ δέ ⁹⁷⁹ λέγω ⁹⁸⁰ λέγω ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-386-1 ἐξήνεγκας ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-387-1 δν οὐχ ο<*>όν τε ⁹⁸³ μὴ οὐ ⁹⁸⁴ μὴ ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-387-2 τὸ … φανθὲν ⁹⁸⁶ τὸ γὰρ ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-387-3 τίς ἂν δύναιτ’ ἂν ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-387-4 ἀγένητον ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-387-5 744 f. For ἀνθρώπων ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-387-6 ἄζηλον ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-388-1 ἐν ὄμμασιν ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-388-2 κατὰ γλῶσσαν ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-389-1 ἐμπελάζεις … καὶ παρίστασαι ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-390-1 εἰ χρὴ μαθεῖν σε ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-391-1 ὅθ’ εἷρπε ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-392-1 τροπαῖα ⁹⁹⁷ ἀκροθίνια ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-393-1 ἀκτή … ἔστιν ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-393-2 Κήναιον ¹⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-393-3 πατρῴῳ ¹⁰⁰¹ βωμοὺς ὁρίζει ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-393-4 τεμενίαν … φυλλάδα ¹⁰⁰³ ἄσμενος πόθῳ ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-394-1 πολυθύτους … σφαγὰς ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-395-1 κῆρυξ ἀπ’ οἴκων … οἰκεῖος ¹⁰⁰⁶ οἰκεῖος ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-396-1 προὐξεφίεσο ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-397-1 ταυροκτονεῖ ¹⁰⁰⁹ συμμιγῆ βοσκήματα ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-397-2 ἐντελεῖς ¹⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-397-3 βοῦς ¹⁰¹² ταυροκτονεῖ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-397-4 προσῆγε ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-398-1 ἵλεῳ ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-399-1 κόσμῳ τε … καὶ στολῇ ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-399-2 Several critics alter κατηύχετο ¹⁰¹⁷ κατήρχετο ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-399-3 But κατηύχετο ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-400-1 σεμνῶν ὀργίων … φλὸξ ¹⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-400-2 πιείρας δρυός ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-401-1 ἱδρὼς ¹⁰²² ἀρτίκολλος, ὥστε τέκτονος ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-401-2 Some have supposed that the

is compared to (stone or bronze) drapery on a statue. could certainly mean a sculptor: Eur. Alc.348 | . But: (1) There would be little point in comparing a real robe to an imitation in art. (2) Cp. fr. 430. 4, where Pelops is responding, with his eyes, to the glance of Hippodameia, and the discreet limit which the lover's instinct observes is compared to the line traced by a craftsman's rule;— | . There, then, as here, the simile is from a mechanical process: the is suggested there by , as here by .

mvp-comment-401-3 ἅπαν κατ’ ἄρθρον ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-401-4 ὀστέων ¹⁰²⁵ ἀντίσπαστος ¹⁰²⁶ ἀδαγμός ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-402-1 ἐχίδνης … ὣς ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-402-2 ἐδαίνυτο ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-403-1 )βόησε ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-403-2 μηχαναῖς ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-404-1 ἔλεξεν ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-405-1 πλευμόνων ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-406-1 ἄρθρον ᾗ λυγίζεται ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-407-1 ἐκ πόντου ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-407-2 The name ‘Lichades’ was given to some rocky islets just S. of C. Cenaeum, in the narrow strait dividing it from the promontory of Cnemīdes on the Locrian coast. Strabo 9. p. 426

. Cp. Aesch. fr. 29, quoted on 237 f. Ovid Met. 9. 226

Nunc quoque in Euboico scopulus brevis emicat alte | Gurgite, et humanae servat vestigia formae; | Quem quasi sensurum nautae calcare verentur, | Appellantque Lichan.

— perh.= : cp. (Preller 2. 255 n. 2).

mvp-comment-408-1 κόμης … μυελὸν ἐκραίνει ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-408-2 μυελὸν ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-408-3 διασπαρέντος ¹⁰³⁸ μέσου ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-409-1 ἀνηυφήμησεν οἰμωγῇ ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-410-1 ἰύζων ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-411-1 Λοκρῶν τ’ ὄρειοι πρῶνες ¹⁰⁴² τ’ ¹⁰⁴³ Λοκρῶν ¹⁰⁴⁴ ἄκραι ¹⁰⁴⁵ ἄκρα ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-411-2 Seneca's equivalent for this passage is curious: he describes the hero's cries as re-echoed from Chalcis (50 miles off), from Cape Caphareus (upwards of 100), and from ‘all the Cyclades’! ( Herc. Oet. 803 ff.)

mvp-comment-412-1 ἀπεῖπε … ῥίπτων ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-413-1 δυσπάρευνον ¹⁰⁴⁸ λέκτρον ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-413-2 ἐνδατούμενος ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-413-3 τὸν Οἰνέως γάμον ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-414-1 προσέδρου ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-414-2 λιγνύος ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-414-3 διάστροφον ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-415-1 συνθανεῖν ¹⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-416-1 ἔξω ¹⁰⁵⁶ ἆρον ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-416-2 The reasons for preferring Wakefield's με θὲς ¹⁰⁵⁸ μέθες ¹⁰⁵⁹ μέθες ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-416-3 ὅπου … μή τις ὄψεται ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-417-1 εἰ δ’ οἶκτον ἴσχεις ¹⁰⁶² εἰ δ’ οἶκτος ἴσχει ς’. ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-417-2 ἀλλά ¹⁰⁶⁴ αὐτοῦ ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-417-3 θάνω ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-418-1 τοσαῦτ’ ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-418-2 ἐπισκήψαντος ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-419-1 σφε ¹⁰⁶⁹ ἐκέλσαμεν ¹⁰⁷⁰ θέντες ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-420-1 ἢ ζῶντ’ … ἢ τεθνηκότ’ ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-421-1 βουλεύσας’ ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-421-2 δρῶς’ ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-421-3 ποίνιμος ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-421-4 Δίκη ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-421-5 ἐπεύχομαι ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-421-6 εἰ θέμις … θέμις δ’ ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-421-7 προὔβαλες ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-421-8 μοι ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-421-9 Others understand: (1) ‘you have thrown this very justice as a shield (

) over my action’ (Paley); i.e., ‘have made it right for me to do so.’ (2) ‘You have given me the right to do so’ (lit., ‘placed’ that right ‘at my disposal’).—Wunder, changing θέμιν ¹⁰⁸¹ ἔριν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-422-1 σῖγ’ ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-422-2 815 f. The place of ὀφθαλμῶν ἐμῶν ¹⁰⁸⁴ οὖρος ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-422-3 αὐτῇ ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-422-4 καλός ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-423-1 γὰρ ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-423-2 ὄγκον ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-423-3 τρέφειν ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-423-4 μηδὲν ¹⁰⁹¹ ἥτις ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-424-1 ἀλλ’ ἑρπ. χαίρουσα ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-424-2 τήνδ’ ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-425-1 ἴδ’ ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-425-2 προσέμειξεν ¹⁰⁹⁶ παλαιφάτου ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-426-1 θεοπρόπον ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-426-2 τᾶς παλαιφάτου προνοίας ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-427-1 ὅ τ’ ¹¹⁰⁰ ἅ τ’ ¹¹⁰¹ ὃν ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-427-2 ἔλακεν ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-427-3 ἐκφέροι ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-427-4 δωδέκατος ἄροτος ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-427-5 This is the only passage of the play which mentions the period of twelve years. In 44 f. and 164 f., the reference is merely to the fifteen months which, when Heracles left home, were still wanting to those twelve years. It may be asked, then, whence the Chorus derive their knowledge of the twelve years; for Deianeira, in 155 ff., speaks as if they had not then heard of the oracle. The answer is simply that this inconsistency of detail was overlooked by the poet; the term of twelve years was in his mind, as a familiar part of the story; and he forgot that, if the Chorus were to know it, Deianeira ought to have mentioned it.

mvp-comment-427-6 Needless difficulties have been made by assuming that the allusion here must be to the fifteen months of 44 f. and 164 f. Even then, however, it has to be supposed that ‘twelve months’ are put loosely for ‘fifteen.’

mvp-comment-427-7 ἄροτος ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-427-8 ἀναδοχὰν τελεῖν ¹¹⁰⁷ πόνων ¹¹⁰⁸ τελεῖν ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-428-1 αὐτόπαιδι ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-428-2 ἔμπεδα ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-428-3 κατουρίζει ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-429-1 ὁ μὴ λεύσσων ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-429-2 ἐπίπονον … λατρείαν ¹¹¹⁴ πόνων ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-430-1 φονίᾳ νεφέλᾳ ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-430-2 Others understand: (1) ‘in the Centaur's deadly net.’

was a kind of bird-net used by fowlers: in Anthol. 6. 11. 2 it is called , ‘of fine texture,’ and distinguished from the hunter's . Cp. 1052 , and 1057 . But it seems doubtful whether this use of would have been suitable to Tragedy. (2) ‘The deadly envelopment,’— i.e., the robe, compared to a cloud which obscures the sun.

mvp-comment-430-3 Κενταύρου … δολοποιὸς ἀνάγκα ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-430-4 χρίει ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-430-5 πλευρά ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-430-6 834 The MSS. have

. This has been explained as if were the father and the (hydra) the mother. But usage does not warrant such a pointed antithesis between (midd.) and . The poets apply either voice to either parent: see, e.g., Il.6. 154 , | : ib. 2. 728 , and 742 . Lobeck's correction of ἔτεκε ¹¹²⁰ ἔτρεφε ¹¹²¹ αἰόλος ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-431-1 ἀέλιον ¹¹²³ α^ ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-432-1 ὕδρας … φάσματι ¹¹²⁵ προστετακὼς ¹¹²⁶ μελαγχαίτα δ’ ¹¹²⁷ φάσματι ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-432-2 μελαγχαίτα ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-433-1 ἄμμιγα ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-434-1 It has long been the general belief that the words νέσου ¹¹³¹ νέσσου ¹¹³² θ’ ὕπο ¹¹³³ μελαγχαίτα ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-434-2 Here I may briefly state my own conclusions. (1) μελαγχαίτα ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-434-3 (2) Comparing v. 830 with v. 840, we see that the words

in 830 correspond metrically with . The words in 830 ought therefore to correspond with what stands between in 839 and the before in 840: viz., acc. to the MSS., (or ) .

mvp-comment-434-4 (3) Now, if νέσου θ’ ὕπο ¹¹³⁶ ὑπόφονα ¹¹³⁷ δολόμυθα ¹¹³⁸ φόνια δολιόμυθα ¹¹³⁹ ὕπο ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-434-5 (4) But a closer adherence to the MS. text becomes possible, if, with Gleditsch, we read Νέσσου ὑποφόνια δολιόμυθα κέντρ’ ἐπιζέσαντα ¹¹⁴¹ ἔτι ποτ’ ἔτ’ ἐπίπονον <πόνων> ἔχοι θανὼν λατρείαν ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-435-1 ὧν … ἄοκνος ¹¹⁴³ ἄοκνον ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-436-1 προσορῶσα ¹¹⁴⁵ προορῶσα ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-437-1 ἀΐσσουσαν ¹¹⁴⁷ ἀϊσσόντων ¹¹⁴⁸ γάμων ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-438-1 τὰ μὲν αὐτὰ προσέβαλε ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-438-2 The MS. reading,

, is explained to mean, ‘part she did not comprehend’ (schol. ): i.e., she had, indeed, a secret purpose, but she did not know the deadly nature of the unguent. To this there are two objections. (1) The supposed sense of is unexampled: cp. 580 n. (2) The proper antithesis is lost; for <*>ought to be opposed to her own designs or acts; but those things which she ‘did not comprehend’ were just those which ‘came from the alien will.’

mvp-comment-438-3 ἀλλόθρου ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-438-4 ὀλεθρίαισι συναλλαγαῖς ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-438-5 ὀλεθρίαισι ¹¹⁵³ ὀλεθρίαις ¹¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-439-1 ἦ που ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-439-2 ὀλοὰ ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-439-3 στένει ¹¹⁵⁷ ἦ που ἄρ’ ἀλασταίνει ¹¹⁵⁸ αἰάζει ¹¹⁵⁹ στένει ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-440-1 χλωρὰν … ἄχναν ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-440-2 τέγγει … ἄχναν ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-440-3 850 f. The μοῖρα ¹¹⁶³ ἐρχομένα ¹¹⁶⁴ ἄταν ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-440-4 δολίαν ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-440-5 προφαίνει ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-441-1 ἔρρωγεν παγὰ δακρύων ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-442-1 κέχυται νόσος ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-442-2 ὦ πόποι ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-442-3 ἀναρσίων ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-442-4 The doubt as to the reading here is confined to the words between πόποι ¹¹⁷² ἐπέμολε ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-442-5 It seems almost certain that Ἡρακλέους ¹¹⁷⁴ δόμοις ¹¹⁷⁵ δόμοισι ¹¹⁷⁶ <ὕπ)> οὔπω <τοῦδε σῶμ)> ἀγακλειτόν ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-442-6 οἰκτίσαι ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-443-1 κελαινὰ ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-443-2 προμάχου ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-443-3 αἰχμᾷ ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-443-4 θοὰν ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-443-5 αἰπεινᾶς ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-444-1 ἀμφίπολος ¹¹⁸⁴ ἄναυδος ¹¹⁸⁵ α ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-444-2 The ‘silence’ of Aphroditè means that the passion of Heracles had not been avowed as his motive for the war ( cp. 358 ). She has been revealed as the φανερὰ πράκτωρ ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-445-1 These eight verses form an epode to the stasimon; three persons take part in the delivery, viz., the two

, or leaders of (HM. A, HM. B), and the coryphaeus (XO.). The third part (868—870) is best assigned to the coryphaeus, who usually announces a new comer, and who would naturally conduct the dialogue with the . Similar epodes to stasima are Eur. H. F. 815 —821, and Eur. Hipp. 1143 — 1152, in each of which three parts can be distinguished. (See W. Christ, Metrik, § 723, p. 653 2nd ed.)

mvp-comment-445-2 The motive of the whole passage from 863 to 898 is the dramatic necessity of making an impressive preparation for the Nurse's

. It rests with the Chorus alone to do this, since no actor is present.

mvp-comment-445-3 Hermann supposed that, after the three leading choreutae had spoken (863 —870), each of the other twelve in turn took part in the dialogue. But this seems improbable.

mvp-comment-445-4 μάταιος ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-446-1 τί φημί ¹¹⁸⁹ τὶ φημί ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-447-1 οὐκ ἄσημον ¹¹⁹¹ ἀλλὰ δυστυχῆ ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-447-2 καινίζει ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-447-3 869 The MS. reading, ἀήθης ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-447-4 The conjecture ἀηδὴς ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-447-5 Surely ἀήθης ¹¹⁹⁶ ἀ ¹¹⁹⁷ γ ¹¹⁹⁸ ηθής ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-448-1 σημανοῦσα ¹²⁰⁰ σημαίνουσα ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-449-1 Ἡρακλεῖ τὸ πόμπιμον ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-450-1 καινοποιηθὲν ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-451-1 ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-452-1 οὐ δή ποθ’ ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-452-2 πάντ’ ἀκήκοας ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-452-3 τέθνηκεν ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-452-4 878 For the metres of this

(878—895), see Analysis.

mvp-comment-452-5 ὀλεθρία ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-452-6 879 The MS. reading, σχετλιώτατα πρός γε πρᾶξιν ¹²⁰⁹ σχετλίῳ τὰ πρός γε πρᾶξιν ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-452-7 Heinrich Schmidt, whose view of the metre will be seen in the Metrical Analysis, merely transposes

and , writing σχετλιώτατά γε πρὸς πρᾶξιν ¹²¹¹ γε ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-452-8 By

must be meant here the mode of ‘doing’ the deed, rather than the victim's ‘fortune’; though the latter is the usual sense of the singular ( Ant.1305 n.). After the question, τίνι τρόπῳ ¹²¹³ πρᾶξιν ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-453-1 ξυντρέχει ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-454-1 διηΐστωσε ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-455-1 τίς θυμός ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-455-2 τίνες νόσοι ¹²¹⁸ ξυνεῖλε ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-456-1 μόνα ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-457-1 στονόεντος ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-457-2 ἐν τομᾷ ¹²²²

mvp-comment-458-1 ὦ ματαία ¹²²³

mvp-comment-458-2 τάνδ’ ὕβριν ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-459-1 ὡς δὴ … παραστάτις ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-460-1 τίς ἦν ¹²²⁶ πῶς ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-461-1 αὐτὴ πρὸς αὑτῆς ¹²²⁸

mvp-comment-462-1 ἔτεκεν ἔτεκε δὴ ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-462-2 νέορτος ¹²³⁰

mvp-comment-463-1 ἄγαν γε ¹²³¹

mvp-comment-463-2 κάρτα μᾶλλον ἂν ᾤκτισας ¹²³²

mvp-comment-464-1 καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔτλη τις ¹²³³

mvp-comment-464-2 κτίσαι ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-464-3 Hermann rejects this v. and the next, because the Chorus, not knowing the nature of the deeds (

), ought not yet to marvel at them. The verses were inserted, he thinks, to soften the abruptness of (900) after (897). It may be granted that they are not very forcible; but they seem genuine. The Nurse has hitherto been led from point to point by questions. A direct question (898) is needed to prompt her narrative. It would be less like her to begin it spontaneously.

mvp-comment-465-1 παρῆλθε ¹²³⁵ γὰρ ἦλθε ¹²³⁶

mvp-comment-466-1 αὐλαῖς ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-466-2 κοῖλα ¹²³⁸

mvp-comment-466-3 στορνύνθ’ ¹²³⁹

mvp-comment-466-4 Hyllus had entered the house immediately after his mother (820). His occupation reminded her that Heracles would soon arrive, and decided her to act at once.

mvp-comment-467-1 κρύψασ’ ἑαυτὴν ¹²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-467-2 ἔνθα μή τις εἰσίδοι ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-467-3 In Homeric Greek, a final relat. clause can take the subjunct. (usu. with

) after a primary tense, and the optat. (without ) after a secondary tense. But this is not an Attic construction. Thus the Homeric ( Od.15. 458 ) would in Attic be : it could not be, . The constr. —a very rare one in Attic—has grown out of the ‘deliberative’ constr. , by steps which have changed the interrogative clause into a final relative clause. A like instance is Ph.281 , (seeing no one) to aid. See Appendix.

mvp-comment-468-1 βρυχᾶτο ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-468-2 βωμοῖσι ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-468-3 γένοιντ’ ἔρημοι ¹²⁴⁴ γένοιτ’ ἐρήμη ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-468-4 ὀργάνων ὅτου ψαύσειεν ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-469-1 ἄλλῃ … δωμάτων ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-469-2 φίλων … οἰκετῶν ¹²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-470-1 ἀνακαλουμένη ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-470-2 911 The MS. text, καὶ τὰς ἄπαιδας ἐς τὸ λοιπὸν οὐσίας ¹²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-470-3 The genuine verse must have had some direct reference to the context. She is weeping at the sight of attached servants whom she is about to leave. The general sense ought to be, ‘bewailing her own fate, and that of the household over which a change was impending’; since, when master and mistress were dead, the household would be dissolved, and the faithful slaves would pass into other hands. After the death of Heracles, Ceÿx, the king of Trachis (40 n.), was deterred by Eurystheus from continuing to protect the Heracleidae; who sought refuge at Athens. ( Apollod.2. 8. 1. )

mvp-comment-470-4 I believe that

arose from when the E had been accidentally lost or obscured. A similar interchange of initial and , combined with fusion of two words into one, occurs in O. C.550 , where was corrupted into . I would read, καὶ τῆς ἐπ’ ἄλλοις ἐς τὸ λοιπὸν οὐσίας ¹²⁵¹ ἑστίας ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-471-1 τὸν Ἡράκλ. ¹²⁵³

mvp-comment-471-2 θάλαμον ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-472-1 λαθραῖον ὄμμ’ ¹²⁵⁵ ἐπεσκιασμένη ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-473-1 βάλλουσαν ¹²⁵⁷ στρωτὰ ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-474-1 εὐνατηρίοις ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-475-1 ῥήξασα ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-475-2 νυμφεῖα ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-475-3 εὐνάτριαν ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-476-1 συντόνῳ ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-477-1 ᾗ ¹²⁶⁴ ᾧ ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-477-2 προὔκειτο μαστῶν ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-477-3 ἐκ δ’ ἐλώπισεν ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-478-1 δρομαία ¹²⁶⁸ φράζω ¹²⁶⁹ τάδε ¹²⁷⁰ τεχνωμένης ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-479-1 τὸ κεῖσε δεῦρό τ’ ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-479-2 ἐξορμώμεθα ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-479-3 ὁρῶμεν αὐτὴν … πεπληγμένην ¹²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-479-4 ὑφ’ ἧπαρ καὶ φρένας ¹²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-480-1 τοὔργον … ὡς ἐφάψειεν ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-480-2 Others explain: (1) ‘that he had kindled the deed.’ But

never has the sense of . In Eur. Bacch.778 our only MS. for that part of the play has, indeed, | : but the true is attested by the Christus Patiens 2227. (2) ‘That she had made fast the deed,’— i.e. done the irrevocable deed. But κατ’ ὀργὴν ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-481-1 τῶν κατ’ οἶκον ¹²⁷⁸ ἐκδ. ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-482-1 δύστηνος ¹²⁸⁰ ἐλείπετ’ οὐδέν ¹²⁸¹ ὀδυρμάτων ¹²⁸² ἀμφιπίπτων ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-482-2 ἀμφί νιν ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-482-3 ἀμφιπίπτων στόμασιν ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-482-4 πλευρόθεν ¹²⁸⁶ παρείς ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-483-1 αἰτίᾳ βάλοι ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-484-1 ἐκ δυοῖν … ὠρφανισμένος βίον ¹²⁸⁹ βίου ¹²⁹⁰ βίου ¹²⁹¹ ἐκ ¹²⁹² εἷς ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-485-1 δύο ¹²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-485-2 ἢ καί τι πλείους ¹²⁹⁵ ἢ καὶ πλείους τις ¹²⁹⁶ τι ¹²⁹⁷ ἢ καὶ πλέους τις ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-485-3 The sense is:—‘Men often reckon on the morrow, or even, perchance ( τι ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-486-1 πότερα πρότερον ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-486-2 μέλεα ¹³⁰¹ τέλεα ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-487-1 τάδε ¹³⁰³ μένομεν ¹³⁰⁴ ἐπ’ ἐλπίσιν ¹³⁰⁵ μελόμεν’ ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-488-1 ἔχειν ¹³⁰⁷ μέλλειν ¹³⁰⁸ κοινὰ ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-489-1 ἀνεμόεσσα ¹³¹⁰ αὔρα ¹³¹¹ ἔπουρος ¹³¹² ἑστιῶτις ¹³¹³

mvp-comment-489-2 956 ff. It is doubtful whether the MS. Διὸς ¹³¹⁴ Ζηνὸς ¹³¹⁵ Δῖον ¹³¹⁶

mvp-comment-489-3 μοῦνον ¹³¹⁷ εἰσιδοῦσ’ ἄφαρ ¹³¹⁸ μοῦνον ¹³¹⁹ μῶλυν ¹³²⁰ καῦρον ¹³²¹ μανὸν ¹³²² μαῦρον ¹³²³ μαυρὸν ¹³²⁴ μοῦνον ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-490-1 ἐπεὶ ¹³²⁶

mvp-comment-491-1 χωρεῖν πρὸ δόμων ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-492-1 θαῦμα ¹³²⁸ θέαμα ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-493-1 ἀγχοῦ δ’ ἄρα ¹³³⁰ ἀγχοῦ κοὐ μακρἀν προὔκλαιον ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-493-2 ὀξύφωνος ὡς ἀηδών ¹³³² ἀγχοῦ ¹³³³ μακρὰν ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-494-1 ξένῳν ¹³³⁵

mvp-comment-494-2 ξένων … βάσις ¹³³⁶ στάσις ¹³³⁷ βάσις ¹³³⁸

mvp-comment-494-3 ἐξόμιλος ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-495-1 πᾷ δ’ αὖ ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-495-2 βαρεῖαν ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-495-3 φέρει βάσιν ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-496-1 ἀναύδατος ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-497-1 τί χρή ¹³⁴⁴ φθίμενον ¹³⁴⁵ θάνατον ¹³⁴⁶ θανόντα ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-497-2 A comma should follow χρή ¹³⁴⁸ τί χρή ¹³⁴⁹ θανόντα νιν ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-498-1 τί πάθω; τί δὲ μήσομαι ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-499-1 ὠμόφρονος ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-500-1 προπετής ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-500-2 δακὼν ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-501-1 οὐ μὴ )ξεγερεῖς ¹³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-501-2 κάτοχον ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-502-1 φοιτάδα ¹³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-503-1 ἀλλ’ ἐπί μοι ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-503-2 ἄπλετον ¹³⁵⁹ ἄπλετον ¹³⁶⁰ ἐμμέμονε ¹³⁶¹ ἐπί ¹³⁶² μοι ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-504-1 ὦ Ζεῦ ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-504-2 τοῖσι ¹³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-504-3 πεπονημένος ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-504-4 ἀλλήκτοις ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-505-1 οἴμοι <μοι> ¹³⁶⁸ μοι ¹³⁶⁹ ὀδύναις ¹³⁷⁰ ὧδ’ ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-506-1 ἡ δ’ ¹³⁷² ἅδ’ ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-506-2 βρύκει ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-507-1 ἆρ’ ἐξῄδη ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-507-2 ἐξῄδη ς’ ¹³⁷⁶ ἐξῄδης ¹³⁷⁷ ἐξῄδησθ’ ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-507-3 κεύθειν — σκεδάσαι ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-508-1 κρατὸς βλεφάρων θ’ ¹³⁸⁰ βλεφάρων ὕπνον ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-509-1 στέρξαιμι ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-510-1 Κηναία ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-510-2 κρηπὶς ¹³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-511-1 ἱερῶν οἵων ¹³⁸⁵ ἐπί μοι ¹³⁸⁶ ἠνύσω ¹³⁸⁷ ἤνυσας ¹³⁸⁸ ἤνυσας ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-511-2 ὦ Ζεῦ ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-512-1 ἔθου με λώβαν ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-513-1 ἣν ¹³⁹² ἣν … ὄσσοις ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-513-2 μή ποτ’ ¹³⁹⁴ προσιδεῖν ¹³⁹⁵ ὤφελον ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-513-3 ἀκήλητον ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-513-4 καταδερχθῆναι ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-514-1 ἀοιδός ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-514-2 τίς ὁ χειροτέχνης ¹⁴⁰⁰ ὃς ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-514-3 χωρὶς Ζηνὸς ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-515-1 θαῦμ’ ἂν πόρρωθεν ἰδοίμην ¹⁴⁰³ πόρρωθεν ¹⁴⁰⁴ θ<*>μα ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-516-1 This passage consists of lyrics delivered by actors (

). As the Chorus takes no part in it, it is not technically a , which is a .

mvp-comment-516-2 The lyric structure is complex, but not obscure. The passage falls into two main parts, separated by the five hexameters in 1018—1022 (

). I. The first part consists of 1004—1017, in which the first three verses correspond metrically with the last three. II. The second part consists of 1023—1043. (It is equal in length with the first part, though the traditional numbering makes it appear longer.) Here, the first four verses correspond with the last four. Then the central portion of part I. corresponds with the central portion of part II. Thus: (1) 1st strophe, 1004—1006,=1st antistr., 1015—1017. (2) 2nd str., 1007—1009,=2nd antistr., 1027—1030. (3) 3rd str., 1023—1026, =3rd antistr., 1040—1043. The dactyls in 1010—1014, and 1031—1040, could also be regarded as forming a fourth strophe and antistrophe.—For the metres see Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-517-1 ἐᾶτέ μ’, ἐᾶτε … εὐνᾶσθαι ¹⁴⁰⁶ εὐνᾶσαι ¹⁴⁰⁷ ὕστατον ¹⁴⁰⁸ εὐνάσαι ¹⁴⁰⁹ δύστανον ¹⁴¹⁰ δύσμορον ¹⁴¹¹ ὕστατον ¹⁴¹² ἐᾶθ’ ὕστατον εὐνᾶσθαι ¹⁴¹³ μολὼν τοῦ στυγεροῦ; φεῦ φεῦ ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-518-1 πᾷ … ψαύεις ¹⁴¹⁵ πᾷ ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-519-1 ἀνατέτροφας ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-519-2 ὅ τι καὶ μύσῃ ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-520-1 ἥδ’ ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-520-2 πόθεν ἔστ’ ¹⁴²⁰ πόθεν ἐστέ ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-521-1 οὓς ¹⁴²² καθαίρων ¹⁴²³ οἷς ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-522-1 ἐν πόντῳ ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-522-2

after : cp. Ant.1162 ... | (n.).

mvp-comment-522-3 δρία ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-522-4 καὶ νῦν … οὐκ ἐπιτρέψει ¹⁴²⁷ οὐκ ¹⁴²⁸ ἀποτρέψει ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-522-5 τῷδε ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-522-6 πῦρ ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-522-7 ἔγχος ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-522-8 1016 f. The MS. reading,

, is explained as, ‘to sever the head from life,’— i.e., to destroy life by striking the head from the body. This extraordinary phrase is surely not Greek. It has been supported by a corrupt verse of Eur. , Helen. 302, ( Badham) : where Keil reads , Nauck , and Hermann . But, whatever be read there, is widely different from . I hold, with Paley, that Wakefield's βίᾳ ¹⁴³³ τοῦ στυγεροῦ ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-523-1 τοὔργον τόδε ¹⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-523-2 μεῖζον ¹⁴³⁶ ἀνήκει ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-524-1 ἢ κατ ἐμὰν ῥώμαν ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-524-2 σοὶ γὰρ ἑτοίμα ¹⁴³⁹ ἐς πλέον ἢ δἰ ἐμοῦ σῴζειν ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-524-3 The MSS. give σοί τε γὰρ ὄμμα ¹⁴⁴¹ ἔμπλεον ἢ δἰ ἐμοῦ σῴζειν ¹⁴⁴² ἢ ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-524-4 The MS. words, σοί τε γὰρ ὄμμα ¹⁴⁴⁴ ὄμμα ¹⁴⁴⁵ τε ¹⁴⁴⁶ σοί τε γὰρ ὄμμα ¹⁴⁴⁷ σοὶ γὰρ ἑτοίμα ¹⁴⁴⁸ οίμα ¹⁴⁴⁹ ὄμμα ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-524-5 In the Appendix are given the proposed explanations of the vulgate, and various conjectures.

mvp-comment-525-1 λαθίπονον δ’ ὀδυνᾶν ¹⁴⁵¹ ἐξανύσαι ¹⁴⁵² βίοτον ¹⁴⁵³ ἔστι οἱ ¹⁴⁵⁴ μοι ¹⁴⁵⁵ ἔνδοθεν ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-525-2 θύραθεν ¹⁴⁵⁷ ὀδύναν … βιότου ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-525-3 τοιαῦτα νέμει Ζεύς ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-526-1 τᾷδε ¹⁴⁶⁰ τᾷδέ με … πρόσλαβε κουφίσας ¹⁴⁶¹ πρόσλαβέ με ¹⁴⁶² κουφίσας ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-527-1 ἰὼ δαῖμον ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-528-1 θρῴσκει ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-528-2 ἀποτίβατος ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-529-1 Παλλάς ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-530-1 φύτοῤ ¹⁴⁶⁸ τὸν φύσαντ’ οἴκτιῤ ¹⁴⁶⁹ οἴκτιῤ ¹⁴⁷⁰ φύτοῤ ¹⁴⁷¹ φύσαντ’ ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-530-2 ἀνεπίφθονον ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-531-1 ἐμᾶς ὑπὸ κλῇδος ¹⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-531-2 ἐχόλωσεν ¹⁴⁷⁵ ἐχόλησεν ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-532-1 αὔτως ¹⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-532-2 γλυκὺς ¹⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-533-1 αὐθαίμων ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-534-1 ὠκυπέτᾳ ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-535-1 οἵαις ¹⁴⁸¹ οἵας ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-536-1 ὦ πολλὰ δὴ ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-536-2 Cicero's version is essentially that of an orator; the true test for it would be declamation. But even a reader can feel its sonorous vigour, and its Roman gravity; Cicero succeeds as Lord Derby succeeded in much of the Iliad. The rendering of the Greek is very free, sometimes inadequate, but always manly, and highly terse; indeed, the 57 lines of the original become 45; in one place, eleven verses (1079—1089) are reduced to four (vv. 30—33).

mvp-comment-536-3 θερμὰ ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-536-4 κοὐ λόγῳ κακὰ ¹⁴⁸⁵ θερμά ¹⁴⁸⁶ οὐ λόγῳ ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-536-5 The MS. reading, καὶ λόγῳ κακὰ ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-537-1 χερσὶ ¹⁴⁸⁹ νώτοισι ¹⁴⁹⁰ στέρνοισι ¹⁴⁹¹ μοχθήσας ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-538-1 κοὔπω ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-538-2 ἄκοιτις ἡ Διὸς ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-538-3 προὔθηκεν ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-538-4 Εὐρυσθεὺς ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-539-1 οἷον τόδ’ ¹⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-539-2 δολῶπις ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-539-3 Ἐρινύων … ἀμφίβληστρον ¹⁴⁹⁹ ὑφαντὸν ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-540-1 προσμαχθὲν ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-540-2 πλεύμονός τ’ ἀρτηρίας ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-541-1 ῥοφεῖ ¹⁵⁰³ ξυνοικοῦν ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-541-2 χλωρὸν ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-542-1 ἀφράστῳ ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-542-2 χειρωθεὶς ¹⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-543-1 κοὐ … οὔθ’ ¹⁵⁰⁸ οὔθ’ ¹⁵⁰⁹ οὐδ’ ¹⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-543-2 λόγχη πεδιάς ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-543-3 στρατὸς Γιγάντων ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-543-4 θήρειος βία ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-544-1 ἄγλωσσος ¹⁵¹⁴ Ἑλλὰς ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-544-2 οὔθ’ ὅσην ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-544-3 γαῖαν ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-545-1 θῆλυς ¹⁵¹⁸ οὖσα ¹⁵¹⁹ φῦσα ¹⁵²⁰ ἀνδρὸς ¹⁵²¹ ἀνὴρ ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-545-2 καθεῖλε ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-545-3 φασγάνου δίχα ¹⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-546-1 γενοῦ ¹⁵²⁵ γεγώς ¹⁵²⁶ ἐτήτυμος ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-546-2 πρεσβεύσῃς ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-547-1 εἰδῶ ¹⁵²⁹ ἴδω ¹⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-547-2 εἰ τοὐμὸν ¹⁵³¹ κακούμενον ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-547-3 Cicero represents this passage by a single verse, Iam cernam , mene an illam potiorem putes. Hence Nauck rejects v. 1069. But the inference is most unsafe, as another instance will show. The passage beginning with

(1079) and ending with (1089) shrinks, in Cicero's version, to three lines and a half, viz., Videte cuncti: tuque, caelestum sator, | Iace, obsecro, in me vim coruscam fulminis! | Nunc , nunc dolorum anxiferi torquent vertices: | Nunc serpit ardor. Thus Cicero wholly ignores vv. 1085 ff.: he ignores vv. 1080—1084 also, except in so far as their general sense is blended with his version of 1088 f., . Yet the Greek text there is clearly sound.

mvp-comment-548-1 ἴθ’ ¹⁵³³ τόλμησον ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-548-2 ὥστε παρθένος ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-549-1 ἀστένακτος ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-549-2 εἱπόμην ¹⁵³⁷ τόνδ’ ἄνδρα ¹⁵³⁸ ἑσπόμην ¹⁵³⁹ αἰὲν ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-549-3 εἱπόμην κακοῖς ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-550-1 ἐκ τοιούτου ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-551-1 καὶ νῦν … στῆθι … σκέψαι δ’ ¹⁵⁴³ δ’ ¹⁵⁴⁴ θ’ ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-552-1 δείξω γὰρ ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-552-2 ἐκ καλυμμάτων ¹⁵⁴⁷ ἐκ ¹⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-553-1 ἰδού ¹⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-553-2 1081 It is best to retain αἰαῖ, ὦ τάλας, αἰαῖ ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-554-1 ἔθαλψεν ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-554-2 ἄτης ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-554-3 ὅδ’ αὖ ¹⁵⁵³ ἔθαλψεν ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-555-1 δέξαι μ’ ¹⁵⁵⁵ Ἅιδη ¹⁵⁵⁶ Ἀΐδη ¹⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-556-1 ἔνσεισον ¹⁵⁵⁸ ἐγκατάσκηψον ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-556-2 δαίνυται ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-557-1 ἤνθηκεν ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-557-2 ὦ χέρες ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-557-3 ὦ νῶτα καὶ στέρν’ ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-558-1 ὑμεῖς δὲ κεῖνοι ¹⁵⁶⁴ ὑμεῖς ἐκεῖνοι ¹⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-558-2 καθέσταθ’ ¹⁵⁶⁶ ὑμεῖς ¹⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-559-1 Νεμέας ¹⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-559-2 ἀλάστορα ¹⁵⁶⁹ ἄπλατον ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-560-1 βίᾳ κατειργάσασθε ¹⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-560-2 Λερναίαν θ’ ὕδραν ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-560-3 1095 f. The next two exploits are also linked. Sentby Eurystheus in quest of the

( θῆρα ¹⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-560-4 διφυᾶ ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-560-5 ἱπποβάμονα ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-560-6 θηρῶν ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-560-7 ὑβριστήν, ἄνομον ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-561-1 Ἅιδου τρίκρανον σκύλακ’ ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-561-2 Ἐχίδνης θρέμμα ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-561-3 χρυσέων ¹⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-561-4 The golden apples, brought from the garden of the gods, originally meant the winning of immortality. Hence this

properly comes after the Cerberus, though the latter is sometimes made the last ( Eur. H. F.427 ).

mvp-comment-561-5 δράκοντα μήλων φύλακ’ ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-561-6 ἐπ’ ἐσχάτοις τόποις ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-562-1 μόχθων ¹⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-562-2 ἐγευσάμην ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-563-1 χερῶν ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-564-1 ἄναρθρος ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-565-1 ἀρίστης ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-565-2 ὠνομασμένος ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-566-1 τὸ μηδὲν ὦ ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-567-1 κἂν μηδὲν ἕρπω ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-568-1 χειρώσομαι ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-568-2 κἀκ τῶνδε ¹⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-568-3 ἵν’ ἐκδιδαχθῇ<01> ἀγγέλλειν ¹⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-568-4 κακούς γε ¹⁵⁹⁴ γε ¹⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-568-5 θανὼν ¹⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-569-1 ὦ τλῆμον Ἑλλάς ¹⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-569-2 σφαλήσεται ¹⁵⁹⁸ σφαλεῖσ’ ἔσει ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-570-1 παρέσχες ¹⁶⁰⁰ παρασχὼν ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-570-2 νοσῶν ὅμως ¹⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-570-3 δίκαια ¹⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-571-1 δός μοι σεαυτόν ¹⁶⁰⁴ μὴ τοσοῦτον δύσοργος ¹⁶⁰⁵ ὡς δάκνει θυμῷ ¹⁶⁰⁶ δάκνῃ ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-571-2 With the conjecture τοιοῦτον ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-572-1 οὐ γὰρ ἂν γνοίης ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-572-2 ἐν οἷς χαίρειν προθυμεῖ ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-572-3 κἀν ὅτοις ἀλγεῖς μάτην ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-573-1 ποικίλλεις ¹⁶¹²

mvp-comment-574-1 τῆς μητρὸς ¹⁶¹³ φράσων ¹⁶¹⁴ νῦν ἔστιν ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-574-2 οἷς θ’ ἥμαρτεν ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-575-1 καὶ παρεμνήσω ¹⁶¹⁷ γὰρ ¹⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-575-2 παρεμνήσω ¹⁶¹⁹

mvp-comment-576-1 πατροφόντου ¹⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-576-2 ὡς κλύειν ἐμέ ¹⁶²¹

mvp-comment-577-1 ἔχει γὰρ οὕτως ¹⁶²²

mvp-comment-578-1 οὐ δῆτα ¹⁶²³ τοῖς γε πρόσθεν ἡμαρτ ¹⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-579-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ἐρεῖς ¹⁶²⁵ τοῖς γ’ ἐφ’ ἡμέραν ¹⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-579-2 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ¹⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-579-3 τοῖς … ἐφ’ ἡμέραν ¹⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-580-1 κακὸς ¹⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-581-1 λέγω ¹⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-581-2 ἀρτίως νεοσφαγής ¹⁶³¹

mvp-comment-582-1 ἐθέσπισας ¹⁶³²

mvp-comment-582-2 διὰ κακῶν ¹⁶³³

mvp-comment-583-1 οὐδενὸς πρὸς ἐκτόπου ¹⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-583-2 1133 The emphasis on ἐξ ἐμῆς χερός ¹⁶³⁵ πρὶν θανεῖν ¹⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-584-1 δεινοῦ ¹⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-584-2 κατῆρξας ¹⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-585-1 ἅπαν τὸ χρῆμ’ ¹⁶³⁹ τὸ χρῆμα ¹⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-585-2 μωμένη ¹⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-586-1 κτείνασα ¹⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-587-1 γὰρ ¹⁶⁴³ στέργημα ¹⁶⁴⁴ στέργηθρα ¹⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-587-2 σέθεν ¹⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-587-3 δοκοῦσα ¹⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-587-4 τοὺς ἔνδον γάμους ¹⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-588-1 καὶ ¹⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-588-2 τοσοῦτος ¹⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-589-1 ἐκμῆναι ¹⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-590-1 ἰοὺ ἰοὺ ¹⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-590-2 δύστηνος ¹⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-590-3 οἴχομαι ¹⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-591-1 φέγγος οὐκέτ’ ἔστι μοι ¹⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-592-1 κάλει … κάλει δὲ ¹⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-592-2 ὁμαιμόνων ¹⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-592-3 Ἀλκμήνην ¹⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-592-4 μάτην ¹⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-592-5 τελευταίαν … φήμην … θεσφάτων ¹⁶⁶⁰ πύθησθε ¹⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-592-6 The oracles can be only the two which are told to Hyllus (1159—1171). If there had been others, they also must have been confided to him, as representing the absent kinsfolk. Heracles wishes to gather his family around him at a solemn farewell,—to convince them, by the

, that he is in the hand of Zeus,—and, with that sanction, to lay his last commands upon them all.

mvp-comment-593-1 ἀλλ’ … ἀλλ’ ¹⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-593-2 οὔτε ¹⁶⁶³ δὲ ¹⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-593-3 ἐπακτίᾳ Τίρυνθι ¹⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-593-4 συμβέβηκεν ¹⁶⁶⁶ ἔχειν ¹⁶⁶⁷ ὥστε ¹⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-593-5 Sophocles glances here at parts of the story which do not come within the scope of the play. Alcmena, daughter of Electryon king of Mycenae, had been betrothed to her first cousin, Amphitryon, son of Alcaeus king of Tiryns. Amphitryon accidentally killed his uncle, Electryon, and then fled from Tiryns to Thebes with his betrothed. At Thebes Alcmena bore Heracles to Zeus. Heracles afterwards went to Argolis and served Eurystheus,—with the hope that his toils would purchase a return to Tiryns for the exiled Amphitryon and Alcmena ( Eur. H. F.19 ). When these toils were over, Heracles dwelt in freedom at Tiryns with his family, including Alcmena,—Amphitryon being dead ( Diod.4. 33 ). He afterwards slew Iphitus, and then sought a refuge for his household at Trachis (39). But, in the course of the fifteen months since he departed for Lydia, Alcmena had returned to Tiryns, (Eurystheus having no cause to fear the aged widow,)—and had taken some of her grandchildren with her, in order to lighten the burden on the hospitality of Ceÿx.— ξυλλαβοῦς’ ¹⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-594-1 τὸ Θήβης ἄστυ ¹⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-595-1 ὅσοι πάρεσμεν ¹⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-595-2 ἐξυπηρετήσομεν ¹⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-596-1 σὺ δ’ οὖν ἄκουε ¹⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-596-2 τοὔργον ¹⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-597-1 γὰρ ¹⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-597-2 πρόφαντον ἐκ πατρὸς ¹⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-598-1 τῶν ἐμπνεόντων ¹⁶⁷⁷ πρὸς τῶν πνεόντων ¹⁶⁷⁸ ὕπο ¹⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-599-1 ἀλλ’ ὅστις ¹⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-599-2 ὅστις … πέλοι ¹⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-600-1 θὴρ ¹⁶⁸² Κένταυρος ¹⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-600-2 ζῶντά μ’ ἔκτεινεν θανών ¹⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-601-1 τούτοισι ¹⁶⁸⁵ μαντεῖα καινὰ ¹⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-601-2 συμβαίνοντ’ ἴσα ¹⁶⁸⁷ τοῖς πάλαι ξυνήγορα ¹⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-602-1 ἃ τῶν ὀρείων ¹⁶⁸⁹ Σελλῶν ἄλσος ¹⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-602-2 The name

, or (akin to ), denoted a prehistoric tribe, dwelling at and around Dodona: see Appendix, § 4. The priests of Zeus, furnished by this tribe, are said to have been called , from Mount Tomāros ( Orphic Argon. 268 ), which towers above Dodona on W.S.W. In early times these priests were the direct interpreters of the oracle; hence the are called in Il.16. 235. Afterwards, when the cult of Dionè was associated with that of Zeus, the office of interpretation was transferred to the priestesses called Peleiades (172: Strabo 7. 329 ). Here, as in 171 f., the poet says that the oak gave the oracle; but he does not here mention the expositors. He mentions the only to define the .

mvp-comment-602-3 ὀρείων ¹⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-602-4 χαμαικοιτῶν ¹⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-602-5 εἰσεγραψάμην ¹⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-603-1 χρόνῳ τῷ ζῶντι ¹⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-604-1 ἐφεστώτων ¹⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-605-1 τὸ δ’ ¹⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-606-1 συμβαίνει ¹⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-607-1 ἐπιμεῖναι … ὀξῦναι ¹⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-607-2 αὐτὸν ¹⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-607-3 εἰκαθόντα ¹⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-608-1 ἐξευρόντα ¹⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-608-2 Cp. Eur. fr. 219

, | | .

mvp-comment-609-1 ἀλλ’, ὦ πάτερ ¹⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-609-2 ταρβῶ μὲν ¹⁷⁰³ λόγου στάσιν τοιάνδε ¹⁷⁰⁴ ἐπελθών ¹⁷⁰⁵ λόγου ¹⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-609-3 Throughout the dialogue (1114—1156), Hyllus has been gentle and respectful. If, then,

means ‘strife,’ must mean merely, ‘having advanced up to it,’ i.e., ‘come to the verge of it.’ But the clause with , opposed to , ought to express something which tells against obedience (as the fear of a blind promise does); not something which tells in favour of it, as the fear of strife would do. The same objection applies to conjecturing (‘I am afraid of being drawn into such a strife’).

mvp-comment-610-1 ἔμβαλλε ¹⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-611-1 ὡς πρός τί ¹⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-611-2 ἐπιστρέφεις ¹⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-612-1 οὐ θᾶσσον ¹⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-612-2 οἴσεις ¹⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-613-1 ὄμνυ … κάρα ¹⁷¹²

mvp-comment-614-1 ἐξειρήσεται ¹⁷¹³

mvp-comment-615-1 ἐπώμοτον ¹⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-616-1 ἐκτὸς ἔλθοις ¹⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-617-1 οὐ μὴ λάβω ¹⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-618-1 τὸν Οἴτης Ζηνὸς … πάγον ¹⁷¹⁷ ὕψιστον ¹⁷¹⁸ ὑψίστου ¹⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-618-2 The place traditionally known as the ‘Pyre’ was probably somewhere near ‘the proper summit of Oeta’ (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. II. pp. 19 f.), now Mount Patriótiko, about eight miles W.N.W. of Trachis. A Pyra is marked in Kiepert's Atlas von Hellas (ed. 1872, map 5), where the greatest height of Oeta is given as 2152 mètres, or about 7055 ft. It is mentioned by Theophr. Hist. Plant. 9. 10. 2 (

): cp. Liv.36. 30 , and Soph. Ph.1432.

mvp-comment-619-1 θυτήρ ¹⁷²⁰ γε ¹⁷²¹

mvp-comment-619-2 σταθεὶς ¹⁷²²

mvp-comment-620-1 ἐνταῦθα ¹⁷²³ ἐξάραντα ¹⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-621-1 καὶ ¹⁷²⁵ αὐτόχειρα ¹⁷²⁶

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

. Pindar, in treating that legend, uses the generic word, , 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

mvp-comment-622-2 κείραντα ¹⁷²⁷ ἄγριον ἔλαιον ¹⁷²⁸ ἄρσενα ¹⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-622-3 πολλὸν ¹⁷³⁰ σῶμα τοὐμὸν ¹⁷³¹

mvp-comment-623-1 πευκίνης ¹⁷³²

mvp-comment-623-2 πρῆσαι ¹⁷³³

mvp-comment-623-3 εἰσίτω ¹⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-623-4 The ordinary

was attended by wailing; but these obsequies, like those of the priests in Legg. 947 B, were to be . Cp. Manoah's words in Samson Agonistes (1708), ‘Come, come; no time for lamentation now.’

mvp-comment-624-1 ἀστένακτος ¹⁷³⁵ εἴπερ εἶ ¹⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-624-2 μενῶ σ’ ἐγὼ ¹⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-624-3 εἰσαεὶ ¹⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-624-4 βαρύς ¹⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-624-5 1203 The hiatus τί εἶπας ¹⁷⁴⁰ τί μ’ εἶπας ¹⁷⁴¹ δ’ ¹⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-625-1 ὁποῖα δραστἔ ἐστίν ¹⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-625-2 εἰ δὲ μή ¹⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-626-1 οἷά μ’ ἐκκαλεῖ ¹⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-626-2 παλαμναῖον ¹⁷⁴⁶ φονέα ¹⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-627-1 οὐ δῆτ’ ἔγωγ’, ἀλλ’ ¹⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-627-2 ὧν ἔχω ¹⁷⁴⁹ παιώνιον ¹⁷⁵⁰ ἰατῆρα τῶν ἐμῶν κακῶν ¹⁷⁵¹ ὡς ἔχω ¹⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-628-1 φοβεῖ πρὸς τοῦτο ¹⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-629-1 φθόνησις ¹⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-630-1 πλήρωμα ¹⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-630-2 1214 (

), ὅσον γε ¹⁷⁵⁶ ἂν μὴ ποτιψ ¹⁷⁵⁷ ποτιψαύων ¹⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-631-1 κοὐ καμεῖ ¹⁷⁵⁹ τοὐμὸν μέρος ¹⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-632-1 ἀρκέσει καὶ ταῦτα ¹⁷⁶¹ προσνεῖμαι ¹⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-633-1 βραχεῖαν ¹⁷⁶³ μακροῖς ¹⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-633-2 διδούς ¹⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-634-1 Εὐρυτείαν ¹⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-634-2 παρθένον ¹⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-635-1 ἐπεικάζειν ¹⁷⁶⁸ ὥς γ’ ¹⁷⁶⁹ ὥστ’ ¹⁷⁷⁰ ὡς ¹⁷⁷¹ ἐμέ ¹⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-636-1 ἐπισκήπτω ¹⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-637-1 πατρῴων ὁρκίων ¹⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-638-1 προσθοῦ ¹⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-638-2 δάμαρτα ¹⁷⁷⁶

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

(called 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, , 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

: as if Hyllus were younger than Sophocles here imagines him. Ovid, Met.9. 278 , of Iolè: Acc. to Pherecydes, it was for Hyllus, not for himself, that Heracles had first asked the hand of Iolè (schol. on v. 354).

mvp-comment-639-1 ἀλλος … ἀντὶ σοῦ ¹⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-639-2 λάβῃ ¹⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-640-1 ἀλλ’ αὐτός ¹⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-640-2 τοῦτο … λέχος ¹⁷⁸⁰ κήδευσον ¹⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-641-1 πιθοῦ ¹⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-641-2 πιστεύσαντ’ ¹⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-641-3 ἐμοὶ ¹⁷⁸⁴ μοι ¹⁷⁸⁵ σμικροῖς ¹⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-642-1 τὸ μὲν νοσοῦντι ¹⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-643-1 ὡς ἐργασείων ¹⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-644-1 τίς γάρ ποθ’ ¹⁷⁸⁹ ἥ ¹⁷⁹⁰ ἥ ¹⁷⁹¹ ταῦτ’ ¹⁷⁹² ταῦτ’ ¹⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-644-2 The ethic dat. μοι ¹⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-644-3 θανεῖν ¹⁷⁹⁵ μόνη μεταίτιος ¹⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-644-4 σοὶ δ’ ¹⁷⁹⁷ σοί τ’ ¹⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-644-5 ὡς ἔχεις ἔχειν ¹⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-644-6 ὅστις μὴ … νοσοῖ ¹⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-644-7 ἀλαστόρων ¹⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-645-1 τοῖσιν ἐχθίστοισι ¹⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-645-2 ὁμοῦ ¹⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-646-1 ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐ νεμεῖν ¹⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-646-2 Paley would get rid of the irregularity by making ὡς ¹⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-646-3 νεμεῖν … μοῖραν ¹⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-646-4 θεῶν ἀρὰ ¹⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-647-1 ὡς ἔοικας ¹⁸⁰⁸ φανεῖς ¹⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-648-1 ἀπ’ εὐνασθέντος … κακοῦ ¹⁸¹⁰ ἀπευνασθέντος ¹⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-649-1 ἐς πολλὰ ¹⁸¹²

mvp-comment-650-1 κλύειν ¹⁸¹³

mvp-comment-651-1 δυσσεβεῖν ¹⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-652-1 πράσσειν … πανδίκως ¹⁸¹⁵ οὖν ¹⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-653-1 ἔγωγε ¹⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-654-1 ποήσω ¹⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-654-2 τὸ σὸν θεοῖσι δεικνὺς ἔργον ¹⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-655-1 καλῶς τελευτᾷς ¹⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-655-2 κἀπὶ τοῖσδε ¹⁸²¹

mvp-comment-655-3 πρὶν ἐμπεσεῖν ¹⁸²²

mvp-comment-655-4 σπαραγμὸν ¹⁸²³

mvp-comment-655-5 οἶστρον ¹⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-656-1 ἄγ’ ¹⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-656-2 ἐγκονεῖτ’ ¹⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-656-3 αὕτη ¹⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-656-4 τελευτὴ … ὑστάτη ¹⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-657-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-657-2 οὐδὲν εἴργει ¹⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-657-3 τελειοῦσθαι ¹⁸³¹

mvp-comment-657-4 ἐπεὶ κελεύεις ¹⁸³²

mvp-comment-658-1 As Hyllus spoke the last two verses, he gave a sign to the bearers (964) to come forward and resume their places beside the litter. These five anapaestic lines are spoken by Heracles while that order is being obeyed. Then the words of Hyllus,

(1264), mark that the procession is about to move.

mvp-comment-658-2 ἄγε νυν ¹⁸³³

mvp-comment-659-1 πρὶν ἀνακινῆσαι τήνδε νόσον ¹⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-659-2 Other views are:—(1)

is intrans., ‘be roused.’ But this use is unexampled, and cannot safely be inferred from the intrans. ( Her.5. 106 , etc.), or as= , delirare. (2) The subject to the inf. is , and the object is understood. But clearly refers to rousing the pain, not to troubling the mind: cp. 974 : 979 .

mvp-comment-659-3 ὦ ψυχὴ σκληρά ¹⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-659-4 χάλυβος λιθοκόλλητον στόμιον ¹⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-659-5 I take the words in a way different from any of these.

, the ‘curb of steel,’ is, as all agree, the strong selfrestraint which is to keep the lips closed. Then introduces a new image. The lips, thus firmly closed, are set as stone to stone in masonry. Thus the whole phrase means ‘A curb of steel, to keep the lips set as stone to stone.’ The use of to describe the effect of the ‘curb’ has been assisted by the suggestion, in , of .

mvp-comment-659-6 ἀνάπαυε βοήν ¹⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-659-7 ὡς ¹⁸³⁸ τελέους’ ¹⁸³⁹ ἐπίχαρτον ¹⁸⁴⁰