Sophocles Electra 371

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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1466
Zeus! Divine envy surely hath laid low
The form I here behold. But if the truth
Provoke Heaven’s wrath, be it unexpressed.—Unveil!
1465
Off with all hindrance, that mine eye may see,
1465
And I may mourn my kinsman as I should.

Electra. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.

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Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 371 focus
τοῖς τῆσδε χρῆσθαι, τοῖς δὲ σοῖς αὕτη αὐτὴ LAF. αὕτη Pal. πάλιν.
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 472-515 focus
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German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 369 focus
Laß, bei den Göttern, keinem Zorne Naum; es ist
Gewinn in Beider Worten, wenn nur ihre du
Zu nüzen wüßtest und sie selbst die deinigen.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 472-515 focus

Commentary

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mvp-comment-809-1 καὶ δὴ 1 τἀπ’ ἐμοῦ 2

mvp-comment-809-2 τελεῖται 3

mvp-comment-809-3 τῷ … χρόνῳ 4

mvp-comment-809-4 συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν 5

mvp-comment-809-5 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.

mvp-comment-809-6 The corpse here is an effigy, like that of Haemon in Ant. 1261 ff. The deuteragonist, who had played Clytaemnestra, is now playing Orestes.

mvp-comment-810-1 δέδορκα φάσμ’ 6

mvp-comment-810-2 The invocation, ὦ Ζεῦ 7 φθόνου 8 φάσμα 9 δέδορκα 10 πεπτωκός 11

mvp-comment-810-3 ἔπεστι 12

mvp-comment-810-4 νέμεσις 13

mvp-comment-810-5 οὐ λέγω 14

mvp-comment-810-6 Aegisthus corrects himself with hypocritical piety; it is as if he said, ‘but it is not for me to judge my fellow-mortal.’

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

1462-1463. mvp-comment-689-1 μηδὲ.. φρένας] ‘And may not, by encountering my chastisement, be made wise against his will.' Cp. Aesch. Ag. 180, καὶ παρ᾿ ἄκοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν : Ο. С. 172.

1464. mvp-comment-690-1 καὶ δὴ.. ἐμοῦ] 'My rebellious hopes (τὰ ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ) are already at an end.' Cp. supr. 1344; also 1319-21.