Sophocles Electra 380

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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A prophet! How wert thou so long deceived?
1480

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

Current edition Experimental

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 380 focus
ἐνταῦθα πέμψειν, ἔνθα μή ποθ᾽ ἡλίου
380
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 472-515 focus
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 385 focus
So hätten sie beschlossen, das mir anzuthun?
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 472-515 focus

Commentary

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

1478. mvp-comment-698-1 'Why, dost thou not perceive that all this while thou, a living man, hast been replying to the dead in tones like theirs?' Cp. supr. 1342. τοῖς θανοῦσιν is resumed with ἴσα, i.e. Aegisthus has been answering Orestes, who has been given out as dead, with a tongue that is already doomed to death. Tyrwhitt unnecessarily conjectured ζῶντας θανοῦσιν, which Brunck and subsequent editors have adopted, That you have been addressing (?) living men for dead.' Schol. τοῖς θανοῦσιν] τῷ Ὀρέστῃ.