Sophocles Electra 1509

ed. Lewis Campbell

Current edition Experimental

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

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-832-1 δἰ ἐλευθερίας … ἐξῆλθες 1

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1508-1510. mvp-comment-711-1 'O seed of Atreus, how, after many woes, thou hast hardly won thy way into the path of freedom, being made perfect by the effort of to-day!' δι᾽ ἐλευθερίας ἐξῆλθες is a pregnant expression, equivalent to ἐξῆλθες ὥστε δι᾿ ἐλευθερίας ἰέναι.