AEG
The skill you boast belonged not to your sire.
1500
Electra. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
Electra. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-828-1 τὴν τέχνην 1
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1501 Cp.
O. C. 1628
mvp-comment-828-3 1502 The double change of person within the verse ( Or.—Aeg.— Or.) is rare. As G. Wolff observes, there is no instance of it in Aesch. ; in Soph. the only other examples occur in the two latest plays, Soph. O. C. 832 , Soph. Ph. 810 , Soph. Ph. 814 , Soph. Ph. 816 , at moments of high excitement. A triple change within the verse occurs only once, in Soph. Ph. 753. This is another point which bcars on the date of the Electra: cp. 1160 n.
mvp-comment-828-4 ἕρφ’ 2
1500. mvp-comment-707-1 πατρώαν] See Essay on L. § 23. p. 38, δ 1.