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καὶ δὴ
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τἀπ’ ἐμοῦ
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τελεῖται
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τῷ … χρόνῳ
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συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν
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As Electra utters these words, the central doors are opened, and the eccyclema is pushed forward. This was a small and low stage. A corpse is seen upon it, the face and outlines concealed by a covering. Near it stand Orestes and Pylades—the ‘Phocians’ whom Aegisthus seeks. The eccyclema remains displayed to the end, and at v. 1507 Orestes and Pylades go out behind it. So in the
Antigone the eccyclema is in view from 1293 to the close, and at 1347 Creon is led off behind it.
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The corpse here is an effigy, like that of Haemon in
Ant. 1261
ff. The deuteragonist, who had played Clytaemnestra, is now playing Orestes.
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δέδορκα φάσμ’
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The invocation,
ὦ Ζεῦ
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φθόνου
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φάσμα
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δέδορκα
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πεπτωκός
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ἔπεστι
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νέμεσις
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οὐ λέγω
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Aegisthus corrects himself with hypocritical piety; it is as if he said, ‘but it is not for me to judge my fellow-mortal.’