Sophocles Electra 1510

ed. Lewis Campbell

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τῇ νῦν ὁρμῇ τελεωθέν.
1510

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

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

mvp-comment-833-1 ὁρμῇ 1 τελεωθέν 2

mvp-comment-833-2 This play contains no presage of trouble to come, and fitly ends with the word

τελεωθέν
. Contrast the closing words of the Choephori (1075 f.):
ποῖ δῆτα κρανεῖ, ποῖ καταλήξει | μετακοιμισθὲν μένος ἄτης;

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

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.