Sophocles Electra 1485

ed. Lewis Campbell

[ τί τί(σ) τί τίσ γὰρ βροτῶν ἂν σὺν κακοῖς μεμιγμένων
1485

Electra. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1491 focus
Auf, geh' hinein und säume nicht! Denn traun, es gilt
Jezt keinen Kampf um Worte, nein, dein Leben gilt's.

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-821-1 βροτῶν 1

mvp-comment-821-2 σὺν κακοῖς μεμιγμένων 2

mvp-comment-821-3 θνῄσκειν 3

mvp-comment-821-4 τοῦ χρόνου 4

mvp-comment-821-5 Many recent critics follow Dindorf in suspecting or bracketing these two verses. Two things should be clearly recognised at the outset. First, that no suspicion is warranted by the fact that the scribe of L accidentally omitted these verses from the text,—as he also omitted several lines elsewhere which are undoubtedly genuine. Secondly, that in the language of these verses there is nothing to which exception can fairly be taken. If they are rejected, it must be on the ground that the thought which they express is inappropriate. But is it so? Aegisthus has appealed to mercy, asking for a brief respite. Electra fears that her brother may relent. What gain, she asks, would such a respite be, even to the doomed wretch himself? And her own feeling requires his instant death. It should be noted also that such a pair of verses, containing a general sentiment in an interrogative form, is Sophoclean; cp. Ai. 475

τί γὰρ παρ’ ἦμαρ ἡμέρα τέρπειν ἔχει
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προσθεῖσα κἀναθεῖσα τοῦ γε κατθανεῖν
; also Ant. 463 f.