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Thyself put forth thy hand. Not mine but thine
To look and speak with kindness to this corse.
Electra. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
Electra. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
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1466-1467. mvp-comment-692-1 By an ἐκκύκλημα, the body of Clytemnestra is brought out, covered, with Orestes standing by. Aegisthus imagines the corpse to be that of Orestes, and Orestes to be the Phocian messenger. What I see here cannot have fallen thus without Divine jealousy, but if to say so provokes Nemesis, I do not say it.' ἔπεστι, sc. τῷ λόγῳ. For οὐ λέγω, cp. Trach. 500. πίπτειν is used in the sense of 'to befall' (L. and S. s. v. V. 2), but also with an allusion to the fall of Orestes. Another way of taking the words has been suggested, What I see cannot have fallen thus without the Envy of the Gods, whether Just Retribution has also been at work, I do not say. But such an opposition between φθόνος and νέμεσις is hardly possible in tragic Greek.