Sophocles Electra 1490

ed. Lewis Campbell

μόνον γένοιτο om. add τῶν πάλαι λυτήριον.
1490

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

1489-1490. mvp-comment-703-1 ὡς ἐμοὶ.. λυτήριον] If Aegisthus dies the common death of all men, or if he obtains burial like other men, Electra will feel unsatisfied, to think that her oppressor is at rest. To see his grave beside her father's in the ἀρχαῖος τάφος (893) would be intolerable to her.