Sophocles Electra 1384

mvp-comment-170-1 δύσθεον ¹

mvp-comment-170-2 μίσημα ²

mvp-comment-170-3 σοὶ μόνῃ ³

mvp-comment-170-4 τέθνηκεν ⁴

mvp-comment-170-5 ἐν πένθει ⁵

mvp-comment-171-1 ἐκ γόων ⁶

mvp-comment-171-2 οἱ κάτω θεοί ⁷

mvp-comment-172-1 τάδ’ ⁸

mvp-comment-172-2 ἥξοντ’ Ὀρέστην ⁹

mvp-comment-173-1 παραστᾶς’ ¹⁰

mvp-comment-174-1 ἥτις ¹¹

mvp-comment-174-2 ὑπεξέθου ¹²

mvp-comment-175-1 ἀλλ’ ἴσθι τοι τείσουσά γ’ ¹³

mvp-comment-176-1 ὑλακτεῖ ¹⁴

mvp-comment-176-2 σὺν ¹⁵

mvp-comment-176-3 πέλας ¹⁶ παρών ¹⁷

mvp-comment-176-4 301 The adv. πάντα ¹⁸

mvp-comment-176-5 ἄναλκις ¹⁹

mvp-comment-176-6 ἡ πᾶσα βλάβη ²⁰

mvp-comment-177-1 σὺν γυναιξὶ ²¹

mvp-comment-177-2 τὰς μάχας ²²

mvp-comment-178-1 ἐφήξειν ²³

mvp-comment-179-1 μέλλων … δρᾶν τι ²⁴

mvp-comment-179-2 τὰς οὔσας τε … καὶ τὰς ἀπούσας ²⁵

mvp-comment-179-3 μου ²⁶ μοι ²⁷

mvp-comment-179-4 διέφθορεν ²⁸

mvp-comment-180-1 σωφρονεῖν ²⁹ εὐσεβεῖν ³⁰

mvp-comment-180-2 ἔν τοι κακοῖς ³¹

mvp-comment-180-3 πολλή )στ’ ἀνάγκη ³² κἀπιτηδεύειν κακά ³³

mvp-comment-180-4 I place only a comma, not a colon, after πάρεστιν ³⁴

mvp-comment-181-1 ὄντος … βεβῶτος ³⁵

mvp-comment-182-1 ἦ κάρτα ³⁶

mvp-comment-182-2 θυραῖον ³⁷

mvp-comment-182-3 οἰχνεῖν ³⁸

mvp-comment-182-4 ἀγροῖσι ³⁹

mvp-comment-182-5 τυγχάνει ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-183-1 ἦ κἂν … ἱκοίμην ⁴¹ ἦ τ<*>ν ⁴² ἦ δἂν ⁴³

mvp-comment-183-2 ἐς λόγους τοὺς σοὺς ἱκοίμην ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-184-1 ὡς νῦν ⁴⁵ ὥς νυν ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-184-2 ἱστόρει· τί σοι φίλον ⁴⁷ τό ⁴⁸ τά ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-184-3 With the other punctuation, ἱστόρει τί σοι φίλον ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-185-1 καὶ δὴ ⁵¹

mvp-comment-185-2 τοῦ κασιγνήτου τί φής ⁵²

mvp-comment-185-3 ἥξοντος ⁵³ ἢ μέλλοντος ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-186-1 φησίν γε ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-186-2 ποεῖ ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-187-1 καὶ μὴν ἔγωγ’ ⁵⁷ γε ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-187-2 οὐκ ὄκνῳ ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀρκεῖν ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐπεί ⁶¹

mvp-comment-189-2 μακρὰν ⁶²

mvp-comment-189-3 324 Here, as in 316, νῦν ⁶³ νυν ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-189-4 δόμων ⁶⁵ φέρουσαν ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-190-1 ὅμαιμον ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-190-2 φύσιν ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-191-1 Χρυσόθεμιν ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-192-1 οἷα ⁷⁰ νομίζεται ⁷¹

mvp-comment-193-1 πρὸς θυρῶνος ἐξόδοις ⁷² φωνεῖς ⁷³ ἐλθοῦσα ⁷⁴ αὖ ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-193-2 330 For the absence of caesura, cp. Ph. 101 n.

mvp-comment-194-1 θυμῷ … χαρίζεσθαι ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-195-1 καίτοι τοσοῦτόν γ’ οἶδα ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-195-2 κἀμαυτήν, ὅτι ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-195-3 333 f. For the repeated ἄν ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-195-4 οἶ) αὐτοῖς φρονῶ ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-196-1 ὑφειμένῃ ⁸¹ πλεῖν ⁸²

mvp-comment-196-2 For the image, cp. Eur. Med. 524

(with close-reefed sails) | : Ar. Ran. 997 , | , | | : and conversely Soph. Ant. 715 | . Ovid Epist. 1. 8. 71

moderatius opta, | Et voti, quaeso, contrahe vela tui.

Shakesp. Henry VI., pt. iii, act 3 sc. 3. 5

‘Now Margaret | Must strike her sail, and learn awhile to serve | Where kings command.’

mvp-comment-197-1 καὶ μὴ δοκεῖν ⁸³

mvp-comment-198-1 τοιαῦτα δ’ ἄλλα ⁸⁴ ἀλλὰ ⁸⁵ ἄλλα ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-199-1 καίτοι τὸ μὲν δίκαιον ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-199-2 κρίνεις ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-199-3 εἰ … με δεῖ ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-199-4 ἐλευθέραν ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-199-5 ζῆν ⁹¹

mvp-comment-199-6 πάντ’ ⁹²

mvp-comment-199-7 ἀκουστέα ⁹³

mvp-comment-200-1 δεινόν γε ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-201-1 τῆς … τικτούσης ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-201-2 μέλειν ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-202-1 τἀμὰ νουθετήματα ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-202-2 κείνης διδακτά ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-202-3 ἐκ σαυτῆς ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-203-1 The text, which has been suspected (cr. n.), is sound; but the train of thought is somewhat obscured by compression.

mvp-comment-203-2 ‘You forget your father, and care only for your mother. All your counsels to me come from her. Then (

),—that being so,—give up the attempt at a compromise. Make a choice ( ). You can be imprudent ( ),—as you say that I am,—and loyal to your dead father. Or you can be prudent ( ), and forgetful of him,—as you actually are; you who ( ) say, indeed, that you would show your hatred of the murderers if you could; and yet, when I do resist them, you try to turn me from my purpose. You merely add the shame of cowardice to our woes.’

mvp-comment-203-3 ἔπειθ’ ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-203-4 ἑλοῦ γε ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-203-5 φρονεῖν κακῶς ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-203-6 Other explanations are:—(1) ‘Choose to be thought either lost to right feeling, or, if you have such feeling, then at least forgetful of your duty.’ (2) ‘Choose to seem either unintelligent (if you are merely the blind instrument of our rulers); or, if you act with clear understanding (

),—thinking to benefit me,—at least forgetful of your father.’ Both these views assume that the question is merely between two interpretations which might be placed on the present conduct of Chrysothemis. But Electra is putting the dilemma between imprudent loyalty and prudent disloyalty.

mvp-comment-204-1 τῶν φίλων ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-205-1 ἥτις ¹⁰⁴ φρονοῦσα ¹⁰⁵ μῖσος ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-206-1 πάντα ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-206-2 τιμωρουμένης ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-207-1 οὔτε … τε ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-207-2 τήν τε δρῶσαν ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-208-1 πρὸς κακοῖσι ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-208-2 δειλίαν ἔχει ¹¹²

mvp-comment-209-1 ἐπεὶ ¹¹³

mvp-comment-209-2 ἢ μάθ’ ἐξ ἐμοῦ ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-210-1 ἐπαρκούντως ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-211-1 προσάπτειν ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-211-2 εἴ τις ἔστ’ ἐκεῖ χάρις ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-212-1 ἡμὶν ¹¹⁸ ξύνει ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-213-1 τὰ σὰ … δῶῤ ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-213-2 ἐφ’ οἶσι ¹²¹

mvp-comment-213-3 χλιδᾷς ¹²²

mvp-comment-214-1 ὑπεικάθοιμι ¹²³

mvp-comment-214-2 πλουσία ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-214-3 περιρρείτω ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-215-1 τοὐμὲ μὴ λυπεῖν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-215-2 Remark the resemblance to the passage where Antigone—summing up her position—compares the moral pain of neglecting her duty with those penalties which she contemns:—

( Ant. 468 ). There, too, we have a Sophoclean triad of clauses, the third echoing the first,—as here reiterates the sense of (n. on Ant. 465 ff.).

mvp-comment-215-3 One of the scholia recognises the traditional reading, and explains it correctly: —

(‘as I should do, if’) .—The conjectures have been numerous: see Appendix.

mvp-comment-216-1 οὐδ’ ἂν σὺ ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-217-1 παῖδα ¹²⁸

mvp-comment-217-2 κεκλῆσθαι ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-218-1 πλείστοις ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-219-1 μηδὲν ¹³¹ πρὸς ὀργὴν ¹³²

mvp-comment-220-1 ἀμφοῖν ¹³³ τοῖς λόγοις ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-221-1 τῆσδε … αὕτη ¹³⁵ πάλιν ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-222-1 ἐγὼ μὲν ¹³⁷

mvp-comment-222-2 πως ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-222-3 μύθων ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-223-1 οὐδ’ ¹⁴⁰ κοὐδ’ ¹⁴¹ ποτέ ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-224-1 ἰὸν ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-224-2 σχήσει ¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-225-1 τὸ δεινὸν ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-225-2 εἰ γὰρ τῶνδέ μοι ¹⁴⁶ εἰ ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-226-1 γὰρ ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-226-2 γόων ¹⁴⁹ λόγων ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐνταῦθα ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-227-2 ἔνθα μή ποτε … προσόψει ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-227-3 ζῶσα ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-227-4 κατηρεφεῖ ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-227-5 χθονὸς τῆσδ’ ἐκτὸς ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-227-6 ὑμνήσεις ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-228-1 πρὸς ταῦτα ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-228-2 Nauck reads κοὔ ¹⁵⁸ καί ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-228-3

schol.: H. 4. 3. 5 : so, too, Eur. Heracl. 971 , etc. Cp. ( )= in Soph. Ph. 1155 ; and = in O.T. 78.

mvp-comment-229-1 ἦ ταῦτα δὴ ¹⁶⁰ ἦ … δὴ ¹⁶¹ ἦ … γὰρ ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-229-2 καὶ βεβούλευνται ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-230-1 ἀλλ’ ἐξίκοιτο ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-230-2 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκ’ ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-231-1 τίνα … τόνδ’ ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-231-2 τάλαινα ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-232-1 εἴ τι τῶνδε ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-233-1 ποῦ ποτ’ εἶ φρενῶν ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-234-1 ὅπως ¹⁷⁰ ὑμῶν ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-234-2 προσώτατ’ ¹⁷² προσωτάτω φύγω ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-235-1 βίου … τοῦ παρόντος ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-236-1 καλὸς γὰρ ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-236-2 θαυμάσαι ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-237-1 τοῖς φίλοις ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-238-1 εἰκαθεῖν ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-239-1 ταῦτα ¹⁷⁹ οὐκ ἐμοὺς ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-240-1 γε ¹⁸¹ μέντοι ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-240-2 μὴ )ξ ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-240-3 πεσεῖν ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-240-4 399 A woman, speaking of herself in the plur., uses the masc.: Ant. 926

.

mvp-comment-241-1 συγγνώμην ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-242-1 τἄπη ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-242-2 πρὸς κακῶν ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-243-1 μή πω ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-244-1 οἷπερ … ὁδοῦ ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-245-1 τῷ φέρεις ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-245-2 ἔμπυρα ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-246-1 τυμβεῦσαι χοάς ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-247-1 βροτῶν ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-248-1 ὃν ἔκταν’ αὐτή ¹⁹⁴ ὅν γ’ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-249-1 τῷ τοῦτ’ ἤρεσεν ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-250-1 δείματος ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-250-2 δοκεῖν ἐμοί ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-251-1 θεοὶ πατρῷοι ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-251-2 συγγένεσθέ γ’ ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-251-3 ἀλλὰ νῦν ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-252-1 εἴποιμ’ ἂν τότε ²⁰²

mvp-comment-253-1 ἐπὶ σμικρὸν ²⁰³ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-253-2 φράσαι ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-254-1 σμικροὶ λόγοι ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-255-1 πατρὸς … δευτέραν ὁμιλίαν ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-255-2 ἐφέστιον πῆξαι ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-255-3 This sceptre is described in the Iliad (2. 101 f.) as the work of Hephaestus, who gave it Zeus; Hermes transmitted it to Pelops, from whom it passed to Atreus and Agamemnon. The Homeric sceptre is often called

( Il. 2. 268 , etc.), prob. as being ornamented with gold foil, or studded with gold nails ( Il. 1. 246 ). Among the objects found at Mycenae are some supposed remains of such sceptres (Schliem., Myc. 201, etc.).

mvp-comment-255-4 οὑφόρει ποτέ ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-256-1 ἔκ τε ²¹⁰ ἐκ δὲ ²¹¹

mvp-comment-256-2 βρύοντα ²¹²

mvp-comment-256-3 ᾧ … γενέσθαι ²¹³

mvp-comment-256-4 The vision resembles that of Astyages, who dreamed that a vine sprang from his daughter Mandanè, the wife of Cambyses,

. The explained this to mean that her son (Cyrus) should reign in his grandfather's stead. ( Her. 1. 108. ) The spreading branches figure also in the dream of Xerxes (7. 19): .

mvp-comment-256-5 In choosing the sceptre of Agamemnon as the stock from which the wondrous growth is put forth, Sophocles may have had in mind the words of Achilles ( Il. 1. 234 ff.);

| , | .

mvp-comment-257-1 του παρόντος ²¹⁴ τοῦ ²¹⁵ παρόντος ²¹⁶ του ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-257-2 Ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὖναρ ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-258-1 οὐ κάτοιδα, πλὴν ²¹⁹

mvp-comment-258-2 πέμπει με κείνη ²²⁰

mvp-comment-259-1 These three verses, which the MSS. give to Electra, and which several recent critics reject (cr. n.), clearly belong to Chrysothemis, and are genuine. Electra's exclamation of joy (411) caused Chrysothemis to ask if her sister had any ground for hope (412). Electra replied that, when she had heard the dream, she would say. This showed her sister that Electra relied merely on the fact that Clytaemnestra had seen some fearful vision. Now, therefore, instead of asking for Electra's interpretation, she merely repeats her counsel (383 f.) before proceeding on her errand. The words

(428 ff.) show the train of her thought. To Chrysothemis, the alarm of Clytaemnestra (427) is more important than the apparition of Agamemnon. The dream is only a new reason why Electra should be cautious,—not why she should hope.

mvp-comment-259-2 The current ascription of the verses to Electra was doubtless prompted by verse 413. It was supposed that the recital of Chrysothemis must be immediately followed by the comments of Electra. But, as Hermann observed, the phrase

would alone suffice to show that the verses belong to Chrysothemis ( cp. 398 ). Nor could the warning, , be fitly uttered by Electra.

mvp-comment-259-3 τῶν ἐγγενῶν ²²¹

mvp-comment-260-1 ἀβουλίᾳ ²²²

mvp-comment-260-2 σὺν κακῷ ²²³

mvp-comment-260-3 μέτει ²²⁴

mvp-comment-261-1 ἀλλ’ ²²⁵

mvp-comment-261-2 ὦ φίλη ²²⁶ τούτων μὲν ²²⁷

mvp-comment-262-1 οὐ … θέμις ²²⁸ οὐδ’ ὅσιον ²²⁹

mvp-comment-262-2 ἐχθρᾶς ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ²³⁰

mvp-comment-262-3 κτερίσματ’ ²³¹

mvp-comment-262-4 λουτρὰ ²³²

mvp-comment-263-1 ἀλλ’ ἢ πνοαῖσιν ²³³ ῥοαῖσιν ²³⁴

mvp-comment-263-2 κρύψον ²³⁵

mvp-comment-263-3 νιν ²³⁶

mvp-comment-263-4 ἔνθα μή ποτ’ ²³⁷ ἔνθεν ²³⁸

mvp-comment-263-5 εὐνὴν ²³⁹

mvp-comment-264-1 ἀλλ’ ὅταν θάῃν ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-264-2 The conjecture ἔστ’ ἂν ²⁴¹ ὅταν ²⁴² σῳζέσθω ²⁴³

mvp-comment-264-3 κειμήλἰ ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀρχὴν ²⁴⁵ τλημονεστάτη ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-266-1 ἔβλαστε ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-267-1 ὅν γ’ … τῷδ’ ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-267-2 ἐπέστεφε ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-267-3 442 f. The position of αὐτῇ ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-267-4 δέξεσθαι ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-267-5 It seems, then, a reasonable inference that here, where the reference is to future time, he would have written δέξεσθαι ²⁵² δέξασθαι ²⁵³

mvp-comment-267-6 444 ff. Join θανὼν ἄτιμος ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-267-7 ἐμασχαλίσθη ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-267-8 Two different motives are assigned by the Greek commentators; viz.:—(1) the desire to render the dead incapable of wreaking vengeance (

): (2) the desire to make an atonement ( ). There can be little doubt that the first of these motives was the primitive origin of the custom. If the second was afterwards blended with it, the idea may have been that of offering the severed portions to the gods below,—as a victim was devoted to death by cutting off a lock of hair ( Eur. Alc. 75 ). Apollonius Rhodius seems to present the practice in this light (4. 477): Jason, having slain a foe, . Cp. Etym. Magn.: .

mvp-comment-267-9 κἀπὶ λουτροῖσιν ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-267-10 ἐξέμαξ ν ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-267-11 ἆρα μὴ ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-268-1 οὐκ ἔστιν ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-268-2 ταῦτα μὲν μέθες· σὺ δὲ ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-269-1 βοστρύχων ἄκρας φόβας ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-269-2 κἀμοῦ ταλαίνης ²⁶²

mvp-comment-270-1 †ἀλιπαρῆ ²⁶³ λιπαρῆ ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-270-2 We come, therefore, to a dilemma. (1) The words

may conceal some corruption: ought possibly to be τήνδε τ’ ²⁶⁵ ἀλίπαρον ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-270-3 (2) Or else, if the text be sound,

may mean . There is no doubt that , ‘fat,’ is the root both of , ‘shining,’ and of , ‘sticking’; cp. Plat. Crat. 427 B

τὸ λιπαρὸν καὶ τὸ κολλῶδες

( Curt. Etym. § 340 ). Similarly , ‘sticky,’ came to mean ‘importunate.’ It is barely possible that, in coining a new negative compound, the poet may have transferred the sense of to : but it seems improbable.

mvp-comment-271-1 ζῶμα ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-271-2 χλιδαῖς ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-272-1 προσπίτνουσα ²⁶⁹ αὐτὸν ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-273-1 ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χερός ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-273-2 ζῶντ’ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-274-1 ἀφνεωτέραις ²⁷³

mvp-comment-274-2 στέφωμεν ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-274-3 δωρούμεθα ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-275-1 οἶμαι μὲν οὖν ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-275-2 If μέλον ²⁷⁷ μέλειν ²⁷⁸ μέλον ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-276-1 σοί ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-277-1 βροτῶν ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-278-1 πρὸς εὐσέβειαν ²⁸²

mvp-comment-279-1 δράσω ²⁸³

mvp-comment-279-2 τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-279-3 (1)

is an acc. of general reference, and is impersonal. ‘With regard to what is (clearly) right, it is unreasonable for two persons to dispute; rather both should hasten on the doing (of it).’ With we supply the notion from the negative (as from in O. C. 1402 ff.; cp. O. T. 817 ff.). For the form of the sentence, cp. H. 7. 3. 7 . So here the acc. , which represents the object of , is separated from it by the parenthesis . (The first scholium gives substantially this view: .)

mvp-comment-279-4 (2) Or

might be nom.: ‘that which is clearly right does not afford any ground ( ) for two persons to dispute,’ etc. So the second schol.: . So far as the verb is concerned, this sense is quite admissible: cp. Thuc. 2. 41 ( ). The objection is that the phrases , which are very common, regularly mean, ‘to be reasonable,’ ‘to be unreasonable.’ This is so both in the personal and in the impersonal constr.; as Plat. Phaedop. 62 D : Dem. or. 36 § 54 ; The supposed sense, ‘not to afford a reason,’ is unexampled.

mvp-comment-279-5 δυοῖν ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-280-1 παρ’ ὑμῶν ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-281-1 πικρὰν ²⁸⁷ δοκῶ με … τολμήσειν ²⁸⁸ ἔτι ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-282-1 εἰ μὴ )γὼ ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-282-2 γνώμας λειπομένα ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-283-1 ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα ²⁹²

mvp-comment-283-2 δίκαια φερομένα χεροῖν κράτη ²⁹³

mvp-comment-284-1 μέτεισιν ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-284-2 οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-285-1 ὕπεστί μοι θράσος ²⁹⁶ κλύουσαν ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-285-2 ἁδυπνόων … ὀνειράτων ²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-286-1 ἀμναστεῖ γ’ ὁ φύσας ς’ ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-287-1 χαλκόπλακτος ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-287-2 γένυς ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-287-3 The very axe (

, 99) with which the blow was dealt is imagined as nourishing a grudge against the murderers who had set it such a task. Such a personification recalls that practice of Athenian law by which inanimate objects which had caused death were brought to a formal trial in the court called , and, after sentence, cast beyond the boundaries, in the presence of the Archon Basileus and the sacrificial officers of the tribes ( ). Aeschin. or. 3 § 244 . (Cp. Dem. or. 23 § 76 .) A like conception was implied in the English law (repealed in 1846) of ‘deodands’ (Deo danda), i.e., personal chattels (whether animals or things) which, having caused the death of a human being, were forfeited to the Crown for pious uses.

mvp-comment-288-1 ἐν αἰκίαις ³⁰²

mvp-comment-289-1 καὶ πολύπους καὶ πολύχειρ ³⁰³

mvp-comment-290-1 λόχοις ³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-290-2 χαλκόπους ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-291-1 ἄλεκτρ’ ἄνυμφα ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-291-2 γάμων ἁμιλλήμαθ’ ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-291-3 ἐπέβα ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-292-1 πρὸ τῶνδέ τοι … συνδρῶσιν ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-292-2 Verses 495—497 (

) answer metrically to vv. 479—481 , where the text is certain, save for the doubt whether or should stand in 479. Here we must first decide two points.

mvp-comment-292-3 (1) Are the words πρὸ τῶνδε ³¹⁰

mvp-comment-292-4 (2) Could

(etc.) mean, ‘ the belief possesses me, that’ etc.? Surely not. No real parallel for so strange a phrase has been produced. It is irrelevant to quote those impersonal verbs which directly express the occurrence of a thought to the mind; as Xen. An. 6. 1. 17 (‘the thought came to them, how they might,’ etc.): Thuc. 6. 78. § 1 Either, then, the subject to has dropped out, or the words conceal a corruption.

mvp-comment-292-5 The following remedies are possible: I incline to the first, as involving least change. (1) Reading in 479

, we may read here | etc. (It may be remarked that is in harmony with the tone of in 479.) Another available word is (cp. Ant. 279 ). (2) Or, reading in 479 , we could read here . On either view, the of in 480 is long (as several critics have assumed). It should be noted that (1) involves a different constitution of the verses: see p. lxxxii.

mvp-comment-292-6 In those MSS. which have μή ποτε μή ποθ’ ἡμῖν ³¹¹

mvp-comment-293-1 ἀψεγές ³¹² ἀψεφές ³¹³

mvp-comment-293-2 πελᾶν ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-294-1 τοῖς δρῶσι ³¹⁵ τοῖς συνδρῶσιν ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-295-1 μαντεῖαι βροτῶν ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-296-1 εὖ κατασχήσει ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-297-1 ἱππεία ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-297-2 Oenomaüs, king of Pisa in Elis, had promised the hand of his daughter Hippodameia to the suitor who should defeat him in a chariot-race; the penalty of failure being death. The young Pelops, son of Tantalus, offered himself as a competitor. Myrtilus, the charioteer of Oenomaüs, was persuaded (either by Hippodameia or by Pelops) to betray his master. He did so by leaving out one or both of the linch-pins by which the naves of the chariot-wheels were secured to the axles. Tzetzes on Lycophron 156

(= , the naves) . According to another story, he substituted a linch-pin of wax for a real one ( schol. Apoll. Rh. 752 ). So Pelops won the race, and the bride. But Oenomaüs was soon avenged on the traitor; for Myrtilus insulted Hippodameia, and was thrown into the sea by Pelops; upon whose house he invoked a curse, as he sank.

mvp-comment-297-3 Euripides, too, ( Or. 990 ff., Helen. 386 f.) refers to this chariot-race as the event with which the troubles of the Pelopidae began. Apollonius Rhodius briefly describes the critical moment of the race as one of the subjects embroidered on the cloak of Jason (1. 752 ff.); there Oenomaüs was seen, ‘falling sideways, as the axle broke at the naves of the wheels,’—

| .

mvp-comment-297-4 The eastern pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia ( circ. 450 B.C.) was adorned with sculptures by Paeonius, representing the preparation for this contest ( Paus. 5. 10. 6 ). The fragments found on the site have sufficed for a reconstruction of the group. Zeus occupied the centre; to the right of him were Pelops and Hippodameia; to the left, Oenomaüs and his wife Steropè. On each side was a chariot drawn by four horses. Myrtilus was sitting in front of his team, with his face turned away from his master.

mvp-comment-297-5 In the older and nobler form of the myth, Pelops won, not by a fraud, but by the grace of Poseidon, who gave him winged horses (Pindar O. 1. 87

). On the chest ( ) of Cypselus, seen by Pausanias in the Heraeum at Olympia ( Paus. 5. 17. 5 ), Pelops was driving two winged horses.

mvp-comment-298-1 αἰανὴς ³²⁰

mvp-comment-298-2 The form

has the best authority, and some critics hold that (Hesych.) was a Byzantine invention. But in Aesch. Eum. 416 , (so L, schol., and Tzetzes on Lycophron 406), is far less suitable.

mvp-comment-299-1 εὖτε ³²¹

mvp-comment-299-2 ὁ ποντισθεὶς Μυρτίλος ³²²

mvp-comment-299-3 A vase found at Capua shows Pelops and Hippodameia in a ship, from which Myrtilus is falling backwards into the water. A winged Erinys hovers in the air above, brandishing a sword over the head of Pelops (Baumeister, Denkmäler p. 1204, referring to Mon. Inst. x. 25).

mvp-comment-299-4 ἐκοιμάθη ³²³

mvp-comment-300-1 παγχρυσέων δίφρων ³²⁴

mvp-comment-301-1 πρόρριζος ³²⁵

mvp-comment-301-2 ἐκριφθείς ³²⁶

mvp-comment-302-1 ἔλειπεν ³²⁷ ἔλιπεν ³²⁸ οἴκου ³²⁹ οἴκους ³³⁰ πω ³³¹

mvp-comment-303-1 πολύπονος ³³² αἰκία ³³³

mvp-comment-304-1 ἀνειμένη ³³⁴ μέν ³³⁵

mvp-comment-304-2 ὡς ἔοικας ³³⁶

mvp-comment-304-3 στρέφει ³³⁷

mvp-comment-304-4 Clytaemnestra begins in the same strain as Chrysothemis, who likewise emphasised her reproof by the word αὖ ³³⁸

mvp-comment-305-1 μή τοι θυραίαν γ’ ³³⁹

mvp-comment-305-2 αἰσχύνειν φίλους ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-306-1 καίτοι ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-306-2 δὴ ³⁴² πολλούς ³⁴³

mvp-comment-306-3 ἐξεῖπάς με … ὡς ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-306-4 θρασεῖα ³⁴⁵ τραχεῖα ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-306-5 ἄρχω ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-307-1 ὕβριν … οὐκ ἔχω ³⁴⁸ κακῶς κλύουσα ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-308-1 πατὴρ γάρ ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-308-2 πρόσχημα ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-309-1 ἡ γὰρ Δίκη ³⁵²

mvp-comment-310-1 ᾗ χρῆν σ’ ἀρήγειν ³⁵³

mvp-comment-311-1 The order of words in the MSS.,

, is probably right; the words would then fall from her with a certain deliberate bitterness. Cp. 542 : Ant. 44 (n.): Ph. 101 .

mvp-comment-312-1 μοῦνος ³⁵⁴ Ἑλλήνων ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-312-2 Nauck requires

instead of , because Agamemnon's unique crime was the slaughter of his own child: as if the text did not convey this. Clytaemnestra means, ‘while mourning a father, you forget a sister.’

mvp-comment-312-3 532 f. The regular mode of expression would be,

. But, having written , the poet explains by repeating the comparison in a new form, . (For or after , cp. Lys. or. 19 § 36

ἡγοῦντο... τὰ ἐκεῖ...εἶναι ἴσα ὥσπερ τὰ ἐνθάδε

.) Those who reject v. 533 omit to notice that, without it, the words would be unintelligible. Cp. Aesch. Ag. 1417 | .

mvp-comment-312-4 This assertion of the mother's superior claim is a counterpart to the doctrine of Athena in Aesch. Eum. 658 f.,

| . Cp. above, Aesch. Eum. 366 n.

mvp-comment-313-1 τοῦ χάριν, τίνων ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-313-2 The alternative, which most editors have preferred, is to take

as the participle. But there is an insuperable objection to this, which seems to have escaped notice. The words, ; could mean only, ‘paying a debt of gratitude for what?’ They could not mean, ‘paying a debt of gratitude to whom?’ The latter would be ; See ( e.g.) Aesch. P. V. 985 : Aesch. Ag. 821 | . Hence the question, ; could not possibly be answered by . For, evidently, the latter word could not mean, (‘for a benefit conferred by) the Greeks.’ A scholiast in the Baroccian MS. (cr. n. on 545), who explains by , plainly meant, ‘showing gratitude for what?’—and his paraphrase was correct; only he overlooked the context.

mvp-comment-314-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ μετῆν ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-315-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντ’ ἀδελφοῦ δῆτα ³⁵⁸ κτανὼν ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-315-2 ἀντὶ ἀδελφοῦ ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-315-3 τἄμ’ ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-316-1 παῖδες … διπλοῖ ³⁶²

mvp-comment-316-2 540 f. Nauck would prefer a single verse in place of these two, viz.

.

mvp-comment-317-1 ἢ ³⁶³

mvp-comment-317-2 ἢ τῶν ἐμῶν Ἅιδης ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-318-1 δαίσασθαι ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-318-2 The conj. λῄσασθαι ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-319-1 πανώλει ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-319-2 παρεῖτο ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-319-3 The sense does not absolutely require us to take Μενέλεω δ’ ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-320-1 ἀβούλου ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-320-2 κακοῦ γνώμην ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-321-1 δοκῶ μέν ³⁷²

mvp-comment-321-2 εἰ καὶ ³⁷³

mvp-comment-322-1 εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-323-1 τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-324-1 γνώμην δικαίαν σχοῦσα ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-325-1 ἐρεῖς μὲν οὐχὶ ³⁷⁷ ἐρεῖς ³⁷⁸ ἐρεῖς … μ’ ὡς ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-325-2 ἄρξασά τι λυπηρὸν ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-325-3 τάδ’ ἐξήκους’ ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-326-1 τοῦ τεθνηκότος θ’ ὕπερ ³⁸²

mvp-comment-327-1 καὶ μὴν ³⁸³

mvp-comment-327-2 λόγους ἐξῆρχές με ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-328-1 Clytaemnestra has argued that she was justified in slaying Agamemnon, because he had slain Iphigeneia. The topics of Electra's reply are as follows.

mvp-comment-328-2 (1) 558—562. The wife who slew her husband would be a criminal, even if the motive had been just retribution; but the real motive was her love for Aegisthus. (2) 563—576. Agamemnon was not a free agent in slaying Iphigeneia; the act was forced upon him by Artemis. (3) 577—583. Suppose, however, that he was a free agent, and wished to please his brother; still she was not justified in taking his life. (4) 584—594. And in any case her plea does not excuse her for living with the man who helped to slay her husband.—The speech then closes in a strain of reproach and defiance (595 —609).

mvp-comment-328-3 καὶ δὴ λέγω σοι ³⁸⁵ πατέρα ³⁸⁶ φὴς ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-329-1 εἴτ’ οὖν … εἴτε ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-329-2 λέξω ³⁸⁹ δείξω ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-330-1 ὡς οὐ δίκῃ γ’ ³⁹¹ ἔσπασεν ³⁹² πειθὼ ³⁹³

mvp-comment-331-1 κυναγὸν ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-331-2 ποινὰς ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-331-3 τὰ πολλὰ πνεύματ’ ἔσχ’ ³⁹⁶ τὰ πολλὰ ³⁹⁷ ἔσχε ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-331-4 Acc. to Aesch. ( Aesch. Ag. 149 f., Aesch. Ag. 192 ), the Greeks were detained by adverse winds, blowing from the N.E. : and this seems to have been the account given in the Cypria ( c. 776 B.C.), Proclus Chrest. p. 455:

. But other authorities speak of a calm. Thus I. A. 9 ff. | | . Schol. Eur. Or. 647 . Tzetzes on Lycophron 183 . Ovid ( Met. 13. 183 ) combines both versions:

mvp-comment-331-5 It has been objected that vessels provided with oars need not have been detained by a calm. But the ships of the Greek fleet were not light craft. Each carried from 50 to 120 armed men, besides

: and the warriors were also the rowers (cp. Thuc. 1. 10 ). It is intelligible, then, that they should await the aid of wind before attempting the passage of the Aegaean. We must remember, too, the strong and shifting currents in the Euripus ( , Soph. Ant. 1145 : , Aesch. Ag. 191 ).

mvp-comment-331-6 We cannot well render:—(1)‘He suffered those tedious winds,’—supplying

from v. 558. Nor: (2) ‘She directed those tedious winds at Aulis,’—a version which would at least require . Cp. Ph. 1119 | .

mvp-comment-331-7 The conjecture πλοῖα ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-331-8 Αὐλίδι ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-332-1 ἢ )γὼ φράσω ⁴⁰¹ κείνης ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-333-1 ὡς ἐγὼ κλύω ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-333-2 θεᾶς … κατ’ ἄλσος ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-333-3 παίζων ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-333-4 ποδοῖν ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-334-1 ἔλαφον ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-334-2 στικτὸν ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-334-3 κεράστην ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-334-4 οὗ κατὰ σφαγὰς ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-335-1 ἐκκομπάσας ἔπος τι τυγχάνει ⁴¹¹ βαλών ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-335-2 This is the reason against taking

with , as=‘he shoots and hits’; cp. Il. 15. 581 : Her. 3. 35 . The vaunt must then precede the hit.

mvp-comment-335-3 Others take βαλὼν ⁴¹³ ἔπος ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-335-4 Monk, with Musgrave, took σφαγὰς ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-336-1 ἐκ τοῦδε ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-336-2 μηνίσασα ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-336-3 Λητῴα κόρη ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-337-1 ὡς ⁴¹⁹ ἀντίσταθμον ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-337-2 ἐκθύσειε ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-338-1 ὧδ’ ἦν ⁴²²

mvp-comment-338-2 τὰ … θύματ’ ⁴²³

mvp-comment-338-3 λύσις ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-338-4 πρὸς οἶκον ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-339-1 πολλὰ ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-339-2 ἀντιβὰς ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-339-3 μόλις ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-340-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-340-2 ἐρῶ γὰρ καὶ τὸ σόν ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-341-1 τούτου … οὕνεκ’ ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-341-2 νόμῳ ⁴³²

mvp-comment-342-1 ὅρα ⁴³³ μὴ … τιθῇς ⁴³⁴ τίθης ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-342-2 Here, either

or would be suitable. (1) With :—‘See that, in making this rule, you are not making woe for yourself.’ This means that to make the rule (as she is doing) is at once (logically) to make the woe. (2) With : —‘See lest, in making this rule, you make woe for yourself’: i.e., the rule may have the woe as a consequence. The woe is a future contingency (583 ), against which Electra warns her. On the whole, I now prefer . Cp. 1003 | : fr. 82 .

mvp-comment-342-3 τιθεῖσα … νόμον ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-343-1 εἰ γὰρ κτενοῦμεν ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-343-2 πρώτη ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-344-1 εἰσόρα ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-344-2 οὐκ οὖσαν ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-344-3 τίθης ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-344-4 εἰ … θέλεις ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-345-1 τῷ παλαμναίῳ ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-345-2 πρόσθεν ἐξαπώλεσας ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-346-1 παιδοποιεῖς ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-346-2 Erigonè, daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra (Tzetzes on Lyc. 1374 ), was mentioned by the early cyclic poet Cinaethon ( Paus. 2. 18. 6 ), and was the theme of Sophocles in his

. Hyginus ( Hyg. Fab. 122 ) notices a son of Aegisthus named Aletes, who gives his name to a play by Sophocles, but does not record the mother: see p. xliii note 4.

mvp-comment-346-3 εὐσεβεῖς ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-346-4 κἀξ εὐσεβῶν ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-346-5 By

Electra means Orestes and herself. Both are ‘cast out’ of their just rights. Cp. O.T. 611 . Eur. El. 62 |

mvp-comment-346-6 βλαστόντας ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-346-7 ἐκβαλοῦσ’ ἔχεις ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-347-1 πῶς ταῦτ’ ἐπαινέσαιμ’ ἄν ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-347-2 ἢ ⁴⁵¹ ἦ ⁴⁵² καὶ τοῦτ’ ⁴⁵³ ἄποινα ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-348-1 αἰσχρῶς δ’ ⁴⁵⁵ δ’ ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐάν περ καὶ λέγῃς ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-348-3 ἐχθροῖς γαμεῖσθαι ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-348-4 These two verses, though not indispensable, seem genuine. Were they omitted, the transition from 592 to 595 would be somewhat abrupt.

mvp-comment-349-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ γὰρ ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-349-2 πᾶσαν ἵης γλῶσσαν ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-350-1 κακοστομοῦμεν ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-350-2 καί σ’ ἔγωγε δεσπότιν ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-350-3 εἰς ἡμᾶς ⁴⁶³ ἣ ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-351-1 βίον μοχθηρόν ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-351-2 ἔκ τε σοῦ ⁴⁶⁶ κακοῖς … ξυνοῦσα ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-351-3 συννόμου ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-352-1 ὁ δ’ ἄλλος ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-352-2 χεῖρα σὴν ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-352-3 τρίβει βίον ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-352-4 603 The reason for writing δή με σοὶ ⁴⁷² δή μέ σοι ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-352-5 μιάστορα ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-353-1 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκα ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-354-1 εἰς ἅπαντας ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-354-2 χρῇς ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-354-3 στόμαργον ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-355-1 τῶνδε τῶν ἔ|ργων ἴδρις ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-355-2 σχεδόν τι ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-355-3 οὐ καταισχύνω ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-356-1 ὁρῶ μένος πνέουσαν ⁴⁸² μένος πνέουσαν ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-356-2 σὺν δίκῃ ξύνεστι ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-356-3 Other interpretations are:—(1) ‘I see that Electra is wroth; but as to whether she is in the right, I see no concern (anywhere),’—a timid way of saying that Clytaemnestra shows no such concern. So the schol. (2) ‘I see that Clytaemnestra is angry, but not that she cares whether she is right’:—an inference from some gesture. Both these versions rely on the fact that

(612) is plainly an echo of (611). But: ( a) it does not follow that is not Electra's thought. ( b) It is surely clear that must be Electra; and ( c) as in Ant. 471 f., the second clause naturally refers to the same person.

mvp-comment-357-1 ποίας δ’ ἐμοὶ δεῖ ⁴⁸⁵ ἐμοὶ ⁴⁸⁶ μοι ⁴⁸⁷ δεῖ ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-357-2 Others understand: (1) ‘If Electra has no consideration for justice, why should I have any consideration for her,— i.e., show her any tenderness?’ Or: (2) ‘If she heeds not justice, why should I heed her?’ Neither view seems well suited to the context.

mvp-comment-358-1 καὶ ταῦτα ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-358-2 τηλικοῦτος ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-358-3 ἆρα ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-358-4 χωρεῖν ἂν ⁴⁹² εἰς πᾶν ἔργον ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-359-1 εὖ νυν ἐπίστω ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-359-2 ἔξωρα ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-359-3 προσεικότα ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀλλὰ … γὰρ ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-360-2 ἡ … ἐκ σοῦ δυσμένεια ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-360-3 ἐξαναγκάζει ⁴⁹⁹ αἰσχροῖς ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-360-4 622 f. The word θρέμμα ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-360-5 ἦ σ’ ἐγὼ ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-361-1 νιν ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-361-2 εὑρίσκεται ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-361-3 Cp. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus (in his Prose Works, ed. Symmons, vol. I. p. 236): ‘I might also tell them [the prelates], what Electra in Sophocles, a wise virgin, answered her wicked mother, who thought herself too violently reproved by her the daughter: ‘' Tis you that say it, not I; you do the deeds, | And your ungodly deeds find me the words.’’

mvp-comment-362-1 οὐ μὰ ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-362-2 δέσποιναν ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-362-3 Ἄρτεμιν ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-362-4 θράσους τοῦδ’ οὐκ ἀλύξεις ⁵⁰⁸ μόλῃ ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-363-1 ὁρᾷς ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-363-2 ἐκφέρει ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-363-3 The v. l. παρεῖσα ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-364-1 οὐδὲ ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-364-2 ὑπ’ εὐφήμου βοῆς ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-364-3 ἐπειδὴ σοί γ’ ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-364-4 πᾶν λέγειν ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-365-1 κελεύω ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-365-2 τοὐμὸν στόμ’ ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-365-3 634 f. An altar, and probably an image, of Apollo stand before the palace. The attendant of Clytaemnestra carries offerings of various fruits, which she is now commanded to raise, as with a gesture of solemn oblation ( ἔπαιρε ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-365-4 ἡ παροῦσά μοι ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-365-5 θύματα … πάγκαρπα ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-366-1 λυτηρίους … δειμάτων ⁵²²

mvp-comment-366-2 ἀνάσχω ⁵²³

mvp-comment-367-1 κλύοις ἂν ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-367-2 προστατήριε ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-368-1 κεκρυμμένην ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-368-2 οὐ γὰρ ἐν φίλοις ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-369-1 πρὸς φῶς ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-370-1 πολυγλώσσῳ ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-370-2 σπείρῃ ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-370-3 ματαίαν ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-371-1 ὧδ’ ⁵³²

mvp-comment-372-1 γὰρ ⁵³³

mvp-comment-372-2 δισσῶν ὀνείρων ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-372-3 Jacobs Fr.( ap. Wunder) understood, ‘ two dreams,’—as if Clyt.'s vision consisted of two parts,—the return of Agamemnon, and the growth from the sceptre (417—423). This seems forced. Still less can we assume that there was some second dream which Clyt. did not relate even to the Sun-god (425).

mvp-comment-372-4 Λύκεἰ ἄναξ ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-373-1 ἐσθλά … ἐχθρά ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-373-2 Cp. Aesch. Pers. 217 , where the Chorus are advising Atossa how to propitiate the gods after her dream:

, |

mvp-comment-373-3 ἔμπαλιν μέθες ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-374-1 εἴ τινες ⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-375-1 ἀλλ’ ὧδε ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-375-2 ἀβλαβεῖ βίῳ ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-376-1 δόμους ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-376-2 ἀμφέπειν ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-376-3 φίλοισι ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-377-1 εὐημεροῦσαν ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-377-2 καὶ τέκνων ⁵⁴⁵ ὅσων ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-377-3 We might also take

as standing, by attraction, for . When the antecedent is thus attracted, it usually comes after the relative ( O.C. 56); but sometimes precedes it, as in Tr. 151 f. ... | ... (for ) . In examples of the latter kind, however, the acc. (and not, as it would be here, the dat.) is elsewhere the case attracted. In favour of taking as partitive, it may be added that this suits the distinction between two groups of . By she means Chrysothemis, Iphianassa, and the offspring o<*> her union with Aegisthus (157; 589).

mvp-comment-377-4 ἐμοὶ … πρόσεστιν ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-378-1 πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντα ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-379-2 660 Following the directions given in vv. 39 ff., the Paedagogus now appears as a

. Cp. O.T. 924 ff., where the messenger from Corinth presents himself to Iocasta and the Chorus.

mvp-comment-379-3 πῶς ἂν εἰδείην ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-380-1 ἦ καὶ ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-380-2 ἐπεικάζων κυρῶ ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-380-3 πρέπ<*> γὰρ ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-381-1 μάλιστα πάντων ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-381-2 ἥδε σοι κείνη πάρα ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-381-3 666 f. The ὦ ⁵⁵⁶ χαῖρε ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-382-1 ἐδεξάμην τὸ ῥηθέν ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-382-2 Instant recognition of an utterance as well-omened was a way of appropriating the omen. The proper formula was

or ( Her. 9. 91 ; Ar. Pl. 63 ). But alone was enough ( Xen. An. 1. 8. 17 : cp. Aesch. Ag. 1653 ). The phrase used here recurs in Her. 8. 114 : cp. also Eur. El. 622

προσηκάμην τὸ ῥηθέν

.

mvp-comment-382-3 εἰδέναι … σου ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-383-1 Φανοτεὺς ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-383-2 πρᾶγμα πορσύνων μέγα ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-384-1 τὸ ποῖον ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-385-1 ἐν βραχεῖ ξυνθεὶς ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-386-1 τί φής, τί φής ⁵⁶⁴ ξεῖνε ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-386-2 ταύτης ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-387-1 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-388-1 οὐδέν εἰμ’ ἔτι ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-389-1 τὰ σαυτῆς πρᾶσς’ ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-389-2 διόλλυται ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-390-1 κἀπεμπόμην ⁵⁷¹ καὶ … φράσω ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-391-1 γὰρ ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-392-1 πρόσχημ’ ἀγῶνος ⁵⁷⁴ Ἑλλάδος ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-392-2 πρόσχημα ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-392-3 Δελφ. ἄθλων ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-393-1 ὀρθίων ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-393-2 δρόμον … οὗ πρώτη κρίσις ⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-394-1 εἰσῆλθε ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-395-1 ἰσώσας * τἀφέσει ⁵⁸¹ τῇ φύσει ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-395-2 Now there is evidence that the customary order for the foot-races was, 1.

, 2. , 3. . See Boeckh C. I. G. no. 1590 and 1591 (referring to games at Thespiae, circ. 240 B.C.): also no. 2214 (games at Chios, circ. 100—80 B.C.). Paus. 6. 13. 3 (of the athlete Polites at Olympia), . It would agree, then, with the words (684) if the were meant here. [As to Legg. 833 D, see Appendix.]

mvp-comment-395-3 For

as=‘starting-place,’ cp. Suidas ( s.v. ): : Paus. 6. 20. 9 : id. 5. 15. 5 —Dindorf notes that in Aristeides vol. I. p. 339 the words were corrupted to .

mvp-comment-395-4 The proposed versions of the vulgate τῇ φύσει ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-396-1 νίκης … γέρας ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-397-1 χὥπως μὲν ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-397-2 Others explain:—

: ‘I do not know how to describe his deeds to you briefly, when they were so many.’ The place of can be justified by O.T. 1251. But: (1) thus construed, the words ought to mean, ‘I do not know how to describe his deeds as few.’ The other meaning would require , or the like. And (2) is then awkward.

mvp-comment-398-1 ὅσων ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-398-2 εἰσεκήρυξαν ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-398-3 βραβῆς ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-399-1 δρομων διαύλων ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-399-2 On the whole, I should incline to delete 691, and alter

in 692 to .

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐνεγκὼν ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-400-2 τἀπινίκια ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-401-1 ὠλβίζετ’ ⁵⁹² ἀνακαλ ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-401-2 Ἀγαμέμνονος ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-401-3 ἀγείραντος ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-402-1 καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τοιαῦθ’ ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-402-2 βλάπτῃ ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-402-3 ἰσχύων ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-403-1 ἄλλης ἡμέρας ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-403-2 ἱππικῶν ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-404-1 ἡλίου τέλλοντος ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-404-2 The Pythian hippodrome was in the Crisaean plain (180 n.), near its upper or northern end, where the rocky gorge of the river Pleistus opens upon a level tract. The site of Crisa, on a spur of Parnassus, overlooked it from the north, and Delphi from the north-east. Beautiful as was Olympia, the scene of the Pythian festival was unrivalled in the grandeur of its natural surroundings.

mvp-comment-405-1 Ἀχαιός ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-406-1 Λίβυες ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-406-2 ζυγωτῶν ⁶⁰⁴ ἐπιστάται ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-407-1 κἀκεῖνος ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-407-2 ἐν τούτοισι ⁶⁰⁷ ἐπὶ ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-407-3 Θεσσαλὰς … ἵππους ⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-408-1 ξανθαῖσι ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-408-2 πώλοις ⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-408-3 Μάγνης ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-409-1 λεύκιππος ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-409-2 Αἰνιὰν ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-410-1 τῶν θεοδμήτων ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-411-1 ἄλλος ⁶¹⁶ ἐκπληρῶν ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-412-1 στάντες ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-412-2 †ὅθ’ αὐτοὺς ⁶¹⁹ ὅθ’ ⁶²⁰ ἵν’ ⁶²¹ ὅτ’ ⁶²²

mvp-comment-412-3 βραβῆς ⁶²³ οἱ τεταγμένοι ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-412-4 710 *

. I should much prefer to read in 709: but is defensible, and I refrain from change. Two views are possible; the first is generally received, and is perhaps simplest. (1) depends on as= : cp. Ar. Eccl. 683 , ‘I will place them all by lot,’ | See above on 123, Ar. Eccl. 556. (2) = , a parenthetic construction ( ), so that is governed by only, and is a second acc., defining , as in ( Soph. Ph. 1301 ). See on 466

f.

mvp-comment-412-5 ἔπηλαν ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-413-1 χαλκῆς ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-413-2 ὑπαὶ ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-413-3 οἱ δ’ ⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-414-1 ὁμοκλήσαντες ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-415-1 ἐν δὲ ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-415-2 κροτητῶν ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-415-3 I formerly took

as=‘welded,’ ‘hammered,’ with ref. to the metal-work of the chariots: cp. Il. 23. 503 : 10. 438 : 4. 226 . (Cp. Helbig, H. E. p. 90.) For this sense of , cp. Pind. fr. 194 .

mvp-comment-416-1 φορεῖθ’ ⁶³²

mvp-comment-417-1 κέντρων ⁶³³

mvp-comment-417-2 ὡς ὑπερβάλοι ⁶³⁴ τις ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-417-3 χνόας ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-417-4 φρυάγμαθ’ ἱππικά ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-418-1 ὁμοῦ γὰρ ἀμφὶ νῶτα ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-418-2 τροχῶν βάσεις ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-418-3 εἰσέβαλλον ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-419-1 ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-419-2 ἐσχάτην στήλην ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-420-1 ἔχριμπτ’ ἀεὶ σύριγγα ⁶⁴³ ἔχριμπτ’ ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-420-2 δεξιὸν δ’ ἀνεὶς κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-420-3 Sophocles has in mind the words of Nestor to Antilochus, Il. 23. 336

| | , | | (‘so that just the nave of the well-wrought wheel may seem to graze it’).

mvp-comment-421-1 πρὶν μὲν ⁶⁴⁶ ἔπειτα δ’ ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-421-2 ἕστασαν ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-422-1 ἄστομοι ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-422-2 βίᾳ φέρουσιν ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-422-3 ἐκ δ’ ὑποστροφῆς ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-423-1 τελοῦντες κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-423-2 The Aenian, closely followed by the others, had just completed his sixth

, or double course, in the hippodrome: i.e., he had just passed, for the sixth time, round the goal nearest to the starting-place, and was on the point of beginning his seventh course. Just as he was passing the goal, his horses bolted. Hence he could not work them quite round into the track. They turned out of the left-ward curve ( ), and ran straight on. Meanwhile, one of the two Libyan chariots had swept round the goal in a wider circle, on the Aenian's right. The Aenian's horses dashed head-foremost into the Libyan's team, striking it on the left side.

mvp-comment-423-3 In the four - horse chariot - race at Olympia the number of double courses was twelve. Hence the goal farthest from the starting-place is

| ( Pind. O. 3. 33 : cp. Pind. O. 2. 55 , Pind. O. 6. 75 , Pind. P. 5. 33 ). If the (=4 stadia) be taken as the length of one double course in the hippodrome, twelve such courses give about 51/2 English miles. (Cp. art. Hippodromus in Smith's Dict. Ant., 3rd ed., p. 965 a.)

mvp-comment-423-4 Βαρκαίοις ὄχοις ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-424-1 ἐξ ἑνὸς κακοῦ ⁶⁵⁴ ἔθραυε καὶ ἐνέπιπτε ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-424-2 ναυαγίων ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-424-3 Κρισαῖον … πέδον ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-425-1 γνοὺς δ’ ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-425-2 κἀνοκωχεύει ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-425-3 κλύδων’ ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔσχατος μὲν ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-426-2 ὑστέρας ἔχων ⁶⁶² φέρων ⁶⁶³ πίστιν φέρων ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-426-3 Those who read

understand, ‘last, indeed, but last by his own choice.’ This is possible, but less simple. The after probably led to the insertion of .

mvp-comment-426-4 Wunder cp. Acad. Pr. 2. 29. 94 Ego enim, ut agitator callidus, prius quam ad finem veniam, equos sustinebo.

mvp-comment-427-1 ὅπως δ’ ὁρᾷ ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-428-1 ἐνσείσας. ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-429-1 κἀξισώσαντε ζυγὰ ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-429-2 τότ’ … ἄλλοθ’ ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-429-3 ἄλλος … ἅτερος ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-429-4 κάρα προβάλλων ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-429-5 For προβάλλων ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-430-1 τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους πάντας ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-430-2 ἀσφαλεῖς ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-430-3 ὠρθοῦθ’ ⁶⁷⁴ ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δί‐ ⁶⁷⁵ φρων ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-431-1 λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-432-1 χνόας ⁶⁷⁸ μέσας ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-433-1 ἀντύγων ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-433-2 σὺν δ’ ἑλίσσεται ⁶⁸¹ τμητοῖς ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-434-1 διεσπάρησαν εἰς μέσον δρόμον ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-434-2 Cp. Il. 23. 467

, | [ sc. ] (‘rushed out of the course’).

mvp-comment-435-1 στρατὸς ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-435-2 δίφρων ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-435-3 ἀνωλόλυξε ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-435-4 οἷ’ … οἷα ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-436-1 φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-436-2 ἄλλοτ’ ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-436-3 οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-437-1 διφρηλάται ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-437-2 κατασχεθόντες ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-438-1 κέαντες ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-438-2 ἐν βραχεῖ χαλκῷ ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-438-3 μέγιστον ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-438-4 σῶμα … σποδοῦ ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-438-5 Cp. Aesch. Ag. 440 (Ares)

| | . Suppl. 1130 | . Propert. 2. 9. 13 (Briseïs with the ashes of Achilles), et tanti corpus Achillei | Maximaque in parva sustulit ossa manu.

mvp-comment-439-1 ἄνδρες Φωκέων ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-439-2 ἐκλάχῃ ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-440-1 τοιαῦτά σοι ⁶⁹⁹ ταῦτ’ ἐστίν ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-440-2 ὡς μὲν ἐν λόγῳ ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-440-3 τοῖς δ’ ἰδ., οἵπερ εἴδομεν ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-440-4 764 f. The word δεσπόταισι ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-440-5 πρόρριζον ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ Ζεῦ ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-441-2 λέγω ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-442-1 τῷ νῦν λόγῳ ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-443-1 δεινὸν ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-443-2 πάσχοντι ⁷⁰⁹ ὧν τέκῃ ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-444-1 μάτην ἄρ’ ἡμεῖς κ.τ.λ. ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-445-1 μάτην λέγοις ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-446-1 ψυχῆς ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-447-1 μαστῶν κ.τ.λ. ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-447-2 ἀποστὰς ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-447-3 ἀπεξενοῦτο ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-448-1 φόνους ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-449-1 ὥστ’ οὔτε … στεγάζειν ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-449-2 ἐξ ἡμέρας ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-449-3 στεψάζειν ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-449-4 ὁ προστατῶν χρόνος ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-449-5 διῆγε ⁷²²

mvp-comment-449-6 783 f. The perf. ἀπήλλαγμαι ⁷²³

mvp-comment-449-7 μείζων ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-450-1 τοὐμὸν ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-450-2 ἐκπίνους’ ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-450-3 ἄκρατον ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-450-4 νῦν δ’ ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-450-5 ἕκηλα ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-450-6 οὕνεχ’ ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-450-7 ἡμερεύσομεν ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-451-1 οἴμοι τάλαινα ⁷³²

mvp-comment-451-2 οἰμῶξαι ⁷³³

mvp-comment-452-1 ἆρ’ ἔχει καλῶς ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-453-1 οὔτοι σὺ ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-454-1 Νέμεσι ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-454-2 τοῦ θανόντος ἀρτίως ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-454-3 Nemesis is the goddess who requires that each man should receive his due (

, Mund. 7. p. 401 b. 13). The ‘Nemesis of the dead man’ is the avenger of wrong done to him; as the Greeks said ( Aesch. Ag. 1432 ), . Cp. Aesch. fr. 266 (‘ our Nemesis’) , | . At Athens were certain rites in honour of the dead ( Dem. or. 41 § 11 ), (Bekker Anecd. I. 282). Nemesis appears in art, too, as a goddess of the dead (Baumeister, Denkm., p. 1008).

mvp-comment-455-1 ἤκουσεν ὧν δεῖ ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-455-2 κἀπεκύρωσεν ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-456-1 οὔκουν … τάδε ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-457-1 οὐχ ὅπως σε παύσομεν ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-458-1 πολλῶν ἂν ἥκοις ⁷⁴² ἔπαυσας ⁷⁴³ παύσαις ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-458-2 πολλῶν ⁷⁴⁵ ἄξιος ⁷⁴⁶ τυχεῖν ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-459-1 εὖ κυρεῖ ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-459-2 800 f. With πράξειας ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-459-3 The emendations which aim at introducing

seem, then, superfluous. The change of καταξίως ⁷⁵⁰ πράξειας ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-459-4 τοῦ πορεύς. ξένου ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-460-1 τῶν φίλων ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-461-1 ἆρ’ ὑμὶν ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-461-2 ὧδ’ ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-462-1 ὥς μ’ ἀπώλεσας θανών ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-463-1 ἀποσπάσας ⁷⁵⁷ αἵ ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-464-1 μολεῖν ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-465-1 δουλεύειν ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-465-2 πάλιν ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-466-1 ἆρά μοι καλῶς ἔχει ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-467-1 τοῦ λοιποῦ χρόνου ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-467-2 818 *

, Hermann's correction of , is made certain by . No dative is needed to explain ξύνοικος ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-468-1 παρεῖσ’ ἐμαυτὴν ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-468-2 αὐανῶ ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-469-1 χάρις ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-470-1 Kommos. 1st strophe, 823—835, =1st antistr., 836—848: 2nd str., 849—859, =2nd antistr., 860—870. For metres see Metrical Analysis. Changes of person occur within a verse (as in 829 ff.,

; ). This indicates that the Chorus is here represented by the coryphaeus; it is, in fact, a lyric duet between the leader and Electra. Similar duets occur in O. T. 649 —697 and O. C. 510 —548, passages which further resemble this as being inserted in : also in the parodos of the O. C.(as at 178 ff.), and its exodos (as at 1677 ff.): and in Ph. 1081 —1217 (as at 1184 f.).

mvp-comment-470-2 These lyrics mark the climax of Electra's grief. The comforter vainly seeks to rouse her from despair.

mvp-comment-470-3 ποῦ ποτε ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-470-4 φαέθων ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-470-5 ἐφορῶντες ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-470-6 κρύπτουσιν ⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-471-1 τί δακρύεις ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-472-1 μηδὲν μέγ’ ἀΰσῃς ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-472-2 ἀΰσῃς ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-473-1 ἀπολεῖς ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-474-1 τῶν … οἰχομένων ⁷⁷⁶ φανερῶς ⁷⁷⁷ ἐλπίδα ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-475-1 κατ’ ἐμοῦ τακομένας ⁷⁷⁹ ἐπεμβάσει ⁷⁸⁰ κατ’ ἐμοὶ τακομένᾳ ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-476-1 οἶδα γὰρ ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-476-2 Ἀμφιάρεων ⁷⁸³ ἄνακτα ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-477-1 χρυσοδέτοις ἕρκεσι ⁷⁸⁵ γυναικῶν ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-477-2 κρυφθέντα ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-477-3 Some vase-paintings, representing the departure of Amphiaraüs for Thebes, show Eriphylè carrying the bribe in her hand. In one of these, on a very ancient vase from Caere, it appears as a necklace of large white pearls (Baumeister, Denkm. p. 67): in another, on a lekythos from Cervetri (Roscher, Lex.p. 295), it is a collar, with projecting rays.

mvp-comment-478-1 ἒ ἔ· ἰώ ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-479-1 πάμψυχος ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-479-2 The cult of Amphiaraüs had its chief seat in Boeotia, but afterwards spread thence to Argos, and throughout Greece. He was a chthonian deity, like Melampus; associated with Dionysus, and then with the Apollinar

. The near Thebes, a dream-oracle, was consulted by Mardonius ( Her. 8. 134 ). In later times the shrine near Oropus was more famous ( I. Paus. 34. 2 ).

mvp-comment-480-1 φεῦ ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-480-2 φεῦ δῆτ’ ⁷⁹¹ ὀλοὰ γὰρ ⁷⁹² ἐδάμη ⁷⁹³ ὀλοὰ ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-480-3 ἐδάμη ⁷⁹⁵ ναί ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-481-1 μελέτωρ ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-481-2 Amphiaraüs was avenged by his son Alcmaeon ,—the counterpart, in this story, of Orestes. Before setting out for Thebes, the seer had charged him with this duty. Eriphylè, bribed once more, prevailed upon her son to lead the Epigoni against Thebes. After its fall, he returned to Argos, and slew her. Pursued by the Erinyes, he fled to Psophis in Arcadia, and there was purified. He was the subject of a play by Sophocles, and of two by Euripides,—the first,

(produced in 438 B.C.), dealing with his absolution, and the second, , with a later episode. Acc. to a grammarian in Anecd. Oxon. II. p. 337, 4, the form of the name used by Eur. was .

mvp-comment-482-1 τὸν ἐν πένθει ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-483-1 ἀναρπασθείς ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-484-1 δειλαία δειλαίων ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-485-1 ἴστωρ ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-486-1 πανσύρτῳ … αἰῶνι ⁸⁰² αἰῶνι ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-486-2 The literal sense then is:—‘(I know this) by a life which, through all the months, is a turbid torrent of many things dread and horrible.’

seems rightly explained in one scholium as : i.e., it has an active sense, like (484 n.), ( Ph. 688 ), ( , Aesch. Ag. 361 ). The genitive, , may depend upon it, as in Soph. Ant. 1184 f. = . But we might also join the genitive with , as=‘a life of’ (made up of) these things. For the verb in ref. to a torrent, cp. Ar. Eq. 527 | : Plut. Mor.p. 5 F . Thus παμμήνῳ ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-486-3 This view gives

a more forcible and more poetical sense than if it be taken as=‘swept together from every side.’ The meaning then would be, ‘a life, through all the months, of many dread horrors, accumulated from every quarter,’—the epithet being transferred from the troubles to the life itself. It would still, indeed, be possible to make active; ‘a life which draws troubles together from all sides’; but such an active sense would be somewhat harsher, on this interpretation, than on that which supposes the image of a torrent.

mvp-comment-487-1 ἁθρήνεις ⁸⁰⁵ ἃ θροεῖς ⁸⁰⁶ ἃ θρηνεῖς ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-488-1 μή μέ νυν ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-488-2 παραγάγῃς ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-488-3 ἵν’ ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-489-1 τί φής ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-490-1 πάρεισιν ἐλπίδων ἔτι ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-490-2 With the other reading,

, both epithets belong to , and mean, ‘hopes from brothers and princes,’— i.e., ‘hopes from a princely brother’: the sense is unchanged, but the phrase is more artificial.

mvp-comment-490-3 That the MSS. have

is more significant than that they also have , which might easily creep in. Suidas, who omits , has , or (in codd. A and C) : but the latter variant can hardly be said to confirm .—At 162 Orestes is called . The fem. occurs at 1081.

mvp-comment-491-1 ἔφυ ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-492-1 χαλαργοῖς ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-493-1 τμητοῖς ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-494-1 ἄσκοπος ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-494-2 ἁ λώβα ⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-495-1 ξένος ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-496-1 ἄτερ ἐμᾶν χερῶν ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-497-1 κέκευθεν ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-497-2 οὔτε του ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-497-3 ἀντιάσας ⁸²²

mvp-comment-497-4 τάφου … γόων ⁸²³

mvp-comment-498-1 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς τοι ⁸²⁴ τοι ⁸²⁵ σοι ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-499-1 τὸ κόσμιον ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-499-2 873 For the place of ὦν ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-500-1 σὺ ⁸²⁹ ἴασιν οὐκ ἔνεστ’ ἰδεῖν ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-501-1 ἐναργῶς ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-502-1 ἀλλ’ ἦ ⁸³²

mvp-comment-502-2 τοῖς ⁸³³

mvp-comment-503-1 μὰ τὴν πατρῴαν ἑστίαν ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-503-2 ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὕβρει ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-503-3 ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον ⁸³⁶ ὡς ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-503-4 The v.l.

for νῷν ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-504-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁸³⁹ τε καί ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-505-1 ἰδοῦσα πίστιν ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-505-2 εἰς τί μοι ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-505-3 ἀνηκέστῳ ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-505-4 πυρί ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-506-1 σὺ δ’ οὖν ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-506-2 τῷ λόγῳ ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-507-1 καὶ δὴ ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-507-2 κατειδόμην ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-508-1 ἀρχαῖον τάφον ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-509-1 κολώνης ἐξ ἄκρας ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-509-2 γάλακτος ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-509-3 περιστεφῆ … ἀνθέων ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-509-4 ἔστιν ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-509-5 θήκην ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-510-1 ἔσχον θαῦμα ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-510-2 ἐγχρίμπτῃ ⁸⁵⁶ ἐγχρίμπτει ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-511-1 ἐν γαλήνῃ ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-512-1 ἐσχάτης … πυρᾶς ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-512-2 νεώρη ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-513-1 ἐμπαίει κ.τ.λ. ⁸⁶¹ ὄμμα ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-513-2 σύνηθες ⁸⁶³ ὁρᾶν ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-513-3 The intrans.

(a stronger ) occurs only here; but cp. O. T. 1252 . In Aesch. Ag. 187 are ‘the fortunes which have suddenly struck him’: cp. ib. 347

mvp-comment-513-4 ψυχῇ ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-513-5 The scholium in L runs thus:—

] : i.e., the writer took to mean ‘a sight’; a sense possible for it only when, as here, it denotes the human face or form ( Ai. 977 : ib. 1004: Aesch. Ch. 238 ). This scholium cannot be claimed, however, as indicating that the scholiast read φάσμα ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-514-1 βαστάσασα ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-514-2 δυσφηυῶ μὲν οὔ ⁸⁶⁸ οὔ ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-515-1 νῦν θ’ ὁμοίως καὶ τότ’ ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-515-2 μή του ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-515-3 ἀγλάϊσμα ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-515-4 911 f. The elliptical πῶς γὰρ ⁸⁷³ ᾗ γε ⁸⁷⁴ μηδὲ ⁸⁷⁵ πρὸς θεοὺς ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-515-5 ἀκλαύστῳ ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-516-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-517-1 οὔτε δρῶσ’ ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-517-2 It is quite true that such elision was rare; the

more usually averted it. The mistake is to deny that it was admissible. Porson's keen observation and fine instinct led him to no such rule; he found no offence ( e.g.) in Eur. Hec. 1113 ( MSS.; Heath).

mvp-comment-517-3 But is ἐλάνθανεν ⁸⁸⁰ δρῶσα ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-517-4 If ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁸⁸² ἔληθεν ἄν ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-517-5 915 *

is Dindorf's certain correction of τἀπιτίμια ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-518-1 θάρσυνε ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-518-2 οὐχ αὑτὸς ἀεί ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-519-1 νῷν ἧν ⁸⁸⁷ δ’ ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-519-2 κῦρος ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-520-1 φεῦ τῆς ἀνοίας ὥς ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-521-1 ὅποι γῆς … φέρει ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-522-1 πῶς δ’ οὐκ ἐγὼ κάτοιδ’ ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-523-1 τἀκείνου … σωτήρια ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-524-1 καὶ ποῦ ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-524-2 ὑπέρχεται ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-525-1 μητρὶ ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-526-1 τὰ πολλὰ ⁸⁹⁷ πρὸς τάφον ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-527-1 μάλιστ’ ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-527-2 μνημεἶ ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-528-1 ὦ δυστυχής ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-528-2 τοιούσδ’ ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-529-1 ἵν’ ἦμεν ἄτης ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-530-1 λύσεις ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-531-1 οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅ γ’ εἶπον ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-532-1 φερέγγυος ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-533-1 τλῆναι … δρῶσαν ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-534-1 ὠφέλειά γ’ ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-535-1 ὅρα ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-535-2 πόνου … εὐτυχεῖ ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-536-1 ξυνοίσω ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-537-1 ποεῖν ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-538-1 παρουσίαν ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-538-2 καὶ σύ που ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-539-1 λελείμμεθον ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-540-1 θάλλοντ’ ἔτ’ ⁹¹⁶ βίῳ ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-541-1 πράκτοῤ ⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-542-1 εἰς σὲ δὴ βλέπω ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-543-1 κατοκνήσεις ⁹²⁰ κατοκνήσῃς ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-543-2 Brunck's comment, ‘ soloece vulgo

,’ alludes to the rule laid down by R. Dawes (ob. 1766) in Miscellanea Critica (p. 227), and once known as the canon Davesianus, that could not be used with the first aor. subjunct. act. or midd. Among many examples that refute it are in the passage just quoted from Xen. (the fut. being ), and in 1122 (the fut. being ).

mvp-comment-544-1 κρύπτειν ⁹²²

mvp-comment-544-2 In this play the fate of Aegisthus forms the climax. Electra has already said that Clytaemnestra shared in the murderous deed (97 ff., 206), and has avowed that she would have wished Orestes to wreak vengeance on her (604). But she does not suggest that she herself or her sister should slay their mother; even the plur.

in 979 need not mean more than Aegisthus. Sophocles avoids everything that could qualify our sympathy with Electra; while it suits the different aim of Euripides to make her plan the matricide. See Introduction.

mvp-comment-545-1 ποῖ … μενεῖς ⁹²³

mvp-comment-545-2 βλέψας’ ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-546-1 κτῆσιν ⁹²⁵ ἐστερημένῃ ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-547-1 ἐς τοσόνδε τοῦ χρόνου ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-548-1 ἄλεκτρα … ἀνυμέναια ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-548-2 γηράσκουσαν ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-549-1 τῶνδε ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-549-2 ὅπως ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-550-1 ἢ κἀμὸν ⁹³² πημονὴν ⁹³³

mvp-comment-551-1 ἐπίσπῃ ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-552-1 εὐσέβειαν … οἴσει ⁹³⁵ θανόντος ⁹³⁶ κάτω ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-552-2 970 ff. The compound ἐξέφυς ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-552-3 καλεῖ ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-552-4 τὰ χρηστὰ ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-553-1 λόγων γε μὴν εὔκλειαν ⁹⁴¹ λόγων ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-554-1 ἀστῶν ἢ ξένων ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-554-2 δεξιώσεται ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-555-1 ἴδεσθε ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-556-1 εὖ βεβηκόσιν ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-556-2 ἀφειδήσαντε ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-556-3 προὐστήτην φόνου ⁹⁴⁸ ἐχθροῖς ⁹⁴⁹ φόνου ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-556-4 981 f. For τούτω … τώδε ⁹⁵¹ ἑορταῖς ⁹⁵² πανδήμῳ πόλει ⁹⁵³ τοι ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-557-1 συμπόνει ⁹⁵⁵ σύγκαμνε ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-557-2 Electra has already declared her faith that Agamemnon, in the nether world, is the ally of his children (454

: cp. 459 ). Orestes also, as she believes, is now there, working in the same cause. She asks her sister to aid their efforts.

mvp-comment-557-3 Nauck miserably defaces this passage by adopting the corrupt v. l. ἀδελφῇ ⁹⁵⁷ ἐμέ ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-557-4 παῦσον ἐκ κακῶν ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-557-5 989 In τοῖς καλῶς πεφυκόσιν ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-558-1 ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ⁹⁶¹ καὶ κλύοντι ⁹⁶² σύμμαχος ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-558-2 993 For the place of μὴ ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-558-3 ἐσῴζετ’ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-559-1 ἐμβλέψασα ⁹⁶⁶ θράσος … ὁπλίζει ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-560-1 εἰσορᾷς ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-560-2 γυνὴ μὲν ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-560-3 σθένεις δ’ ἔλασσον … χερί ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-561-1 ἀπορρεῖ ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-561-2 κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-562-1 τοιοῦτον ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-562-2 ἄλυπος ἄτης ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-563-1 κτησώμεθ’ ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-564-1 λύει ⁹⁷⁶ ἡμᾶς ⁹⁷⁷ ἡμῖν ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-564-2 δυσκλεῶς θανεῖν ⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-565-1 οὐ γἀρ θανεῖν ⁹⁸⁰ γὰρ ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-566-1 κἀξερημῶσαι γένος ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-567-1 ἄρρητα … κἀτελῆ ⁹⁸³ σοι ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-568-1 ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-569-1 The difference between πείθου ⁹⁸⁶ πιθοῦ ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-570-1 καλῶς δ’ ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-571-1 αὐτόχειρί μοι ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-571-2 μόνῃ τε ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-571-3 οὐ γὰρ δὴ ⁹⁹¹ γε ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-571-4 κενόν ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-572-1 εἴθ’ ὤφελες ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-572-2 πᾶν γὰρ ἂν κατειργάσω ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-573-1 φύσιν γε ⁹⁹⁶ τότε ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-574-1 ὡς οὐχὶ συνδράσουσα ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-574-2 νουθετεῖς ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-575-1 εἰκὸς γὰρ ¹⁰⁰⁰ ἐγχειροῦντα ¹⁰⁰¹ πράσσειν ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-576-1 ζηλῶ ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-577-1 ἀνέξομαι ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-578-1 μὴ πάθῃς τόδε ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-579-1 τὸ κρῖναι ¹⁰⁰⁶ μακρὸς ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-579-2 χὡ λοιπὸς χρόνος ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-580-1 μητρὶ … σῇ ¹⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-581-1 οὐδ’ αὖ ¹⁰¹⁰ οὐδ’ ¹⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-581-2 ἔχθος ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-582-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν … γ’ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-582-2 οἷ … ἀτιμίας ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-583-1 ἀτιμίας μὲν οὔ ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-584-1 τῷ σῷ δικαίῳ ¹⁰¹⁶ δῆτ’ ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-585-1 ἦ δεινὸν ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-585-2 εὖ λέγουσαν ¹⁰¹⁹ ἐξαμαρτάνειν ¹⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-586-1 ᾧ σὺ πρόσκεισαι κακῷ ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-587-1 τί δ); οὐ δοκῶ σοι ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-588-1 εἰ ποήσεις ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-589-1 καὶ μὴν ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-590-1 βουλεύσει πάλιν ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-591-1 φρονεῖν ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-592-1 ταῦτα ¹⁰²⁷ νεωστί ¹⁰²⁸ ι ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-593-1 τολμᾷς ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-594-1 οὔ σοι μὴ μεθέψομαι ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-595-1 καὶ τὸ θηρᾶσθαι κενά ¹⁰³² καὶ ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-595-2 κενά ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-596-1 ὅταν γὰρ ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-596-2 βεβήκῃς ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-597-1 ἄνωθεν ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-597-2 οἰωνοὺς ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-598-1 ἐσορώμενοι ¹⁰³⁹ ἀφ’ ὧν ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-599-1 εὕρωσι ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-599-2 ἐπ’ ἴσας ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-600-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰν ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-601-1 τὰν οὐρανίαν Θέμιν ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-602-1 ἀπόνητοι ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-603-1 χθονία ¹⁰⁴⁶ βροτοῖσι ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-603-2 φάμα ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-603-3 Some write Φάμα ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-604-1 κατά … βόασον ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-604-2 μοι ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-605-1 Ἀτρείδαις ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-605-2 ἀχόρευτα ¹⁰⁵³ ὀνείδη ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-606-1 νοσεῖ ¹⁰⁵⁵ δή ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-607-1 τὰ δὲ πρὸς τέκνων ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-607-2 διπλῆ φύλοπις ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-607-3 οὐκέτ’ ἐξισοῦται ¹⁰⁵⁹ φιλοτασίῳ διαίτᾳ ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-607-4 It is also possible, though (I think) less natural, to take the dat.

as depending on (‘is no longer compatible with friendly intercourse’).

mvp-comment-608-1 σαλεύει ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-609-1 Ἠλέκτρα, †τὸν ἀεὶ πατρὸς ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-609-2 Hence it is now generally held that this verse is corrupt. But no certain correction has yet been proposed. The word ἀεὶ ¹⁰⁶³ πατρὸς ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-609-3 Far the best conjecture is Heath's, ἁ παῖς, οἶτον ἀεὶ πατρὸς ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-610-1 πάνδυρτος ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-611-1 οὔτε … τε ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-611-2 τὸ … μὴ βλέπειν ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-612-1 διδύμαν … Ἐρινύν ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-613-1 τίς ἂν εὔπατρις ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-614-1 οὐδεὶς τῶν ἀγαθῶν <γὰρ> ¹⁰⁷¹ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-615-1 ζῶν κακῶς ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-615-2 νώνυμος ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-616-1 πάγκλαυτον αἰῶνα κοινὸν ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-616-2 εἵλου ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-617-1 τὸ μὴ καλὸν καθοπλίσασα ¹⁰⁷⁷ ἀπολακτίσασα ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-617-2 If καθοπλίσασα ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-617-3 (1) ‘Having vanquished dishonour’ (schol.

), i.e., having overcome the temptation of ignoble ease and security. elsewhere means to ‘arm’ or ‘equip,’ never ‘to subdue by arms’; if it has the latter sense here, it follows the analogy of such compounds as .

mvp-comment-617-4 (2) ‘Having made ready an unlovely deed’: i.e., the vengeance on the murderers.—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-618-1 φέρειν ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-618-2 ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-619-1 καθύπερθεν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-619-2 τεῶν ¹⁰⁸³ τῶν ¹⁰⁸⁴ τοσόνδ’ ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-620-1 ὑπόχειρ ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-621-1 μοίρᾳ … οὐκ ἐν ἐσθλᾷ βεβῶσαν ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-622-1 μέγιστα … νόμιμα ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-622-2 ἔβλαστε ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-622-3 τῶνδε φερομέναν ἄριστα ¹⁰⁹⁰ τῶνδε ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-622-4 I formerly understood:—‘in respect to these laws, prospering full well’:

being then an adv., while is used as in Thuc. 2. 60 § 3 : 5. 15 § 2 : 5. 16 § 1 . This view is recommended by the fact that then forms a clear antithesis to . But two points are against it. (1) , as a genitive of relation, is somewhat awkward; though we might compare Thuc. 3. 92 § 4 : and id. 1. 36 § 2 . (2) The poet's usage, as we have seen, favours the other sense of .

mvp-comment-623-1 τᾷ Ζηνὸς εὐσεβείᾳ ¹⁰⁹² Διὸς ¹⁰⁹³ Ζηνὸς ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-624-1 εἰσηκούσαμεν ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-624-2 ὀρθῶς θ’ ¹⁰⁹⁶ δ’ ¹⁰⁹⁷ θ’ ¹⁰⁹⁸ τε ¹⁰⁹⁹ δέ ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-624-3 ἔνθα ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-625-1 Αἴγισθον ¹¹⁰² ᾤκηκεν ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-626-1 ἀλλ’ ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-626-2 χὡ φράσας ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-626-3 ἀζήμιος ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-627-1 τίς … φράσειεν ἄν ¹¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-627-2 ποθεινὴν ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-627-3 κοινόπουν ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-628-1 τὸν ἄγχιστον ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-629-1 ἴθ’, ὦ γύναι ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-630-1 οὐ δή ποθ’ ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-631-1 τὴν σὴν κληδόν’ ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-631-2 Στρόφιος ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-632-1 φέροντες ¹¹¹⁵ κομίζομεν ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-633-1 τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖν’ ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-633-2 πρόχειρον ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-633-3 ἄχθος ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-634-1 κέκευθεν ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-634-2 1122 Cp. Aesch. P. V. 637

.

mvp-comment-635-1 δότε ¹¹²¹ ἥτις ἐστί ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-635-2 ἐπαιτεῖται ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-635-3 πρὸς αἵματος ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-635-4 φύσιν ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-636-1 ψυχῆς Ὀρέστου λοιπόν ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-636-2 ἀπ’ ἐλπίδων ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-636-3 Then οὐχ ὧνπερ ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-636-4 Other possibilities are the following. (1) Keeping both

and , to take as=‘ with hopes.’ The prep. would then be used as when it denotes a resource: 1378 : Thuc. 1. 91 § 7 . (Observe that in Soph. Tr. 667 is not really similar; it means, ‘as the outcome of a fair hope.’) The prevailing usage of condemns this view.

mvp-comment-636-5 (2) Still keeping

, to change , with Schaefer, to . Cp. Eur. Hec. 351 . This is possible; though , when thus used, commonly denotes an external accompaniment ( Soph. Tr. 419 n.); as, indeed, even in Hec. l. c., the hopes are not merely Polyxena's own, but those of her friends. Further: meaning ‘contrary to’—strikes the note of despair more forcibly.

mvp-comment-636-6 (3) Keeping

as=‘contrary to,’ to alter either to οὐχ ὅνπερ ¹¹²⁹ οὐχ ὥσπερ ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-636-7 On the whole, I retain the traditional reading, though not without a suspicion that either

or is unsound.

mvp-comment-637-1 νῦν μὲν γὰρ ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-637-2 οὐδὲν ὄντα ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-637-3 βαστάζω ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-637-4 λαμπρὸν ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-638-1 ὡς ὤφελον ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-638-2 The v.l. ὤφελες ¹¹³⁶ κλέψασα ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-638-3 τοῖνδε ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-638-4 κἀνασώσασθαι ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-638-5 φόνου ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-639-1 ὅπως … ἔκεισο ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-639-2 τύμβου πατρῴου ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-640-1 φυγὰς ¹¹⁴³

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν ¹¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-641-2 φίλαισι ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-642-1 λουτροῖς σ’ ἐκόσμης’ ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-643-1 ἄθλιον βάρος ¹¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-644-1 ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-644-2 σμικρὸς … ὄγκος ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-645-1 τῆς ἐμῆς … τρ. ἀνωφελήτου ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-645-2 παρέσχον ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-646-1 ἢ κἀμοῦ ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-646-2 μητρὸς … φίλος ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-646-3 The schol. on 1146 has,

. But P. N. Papageorgius corrects to ( Scholia in Soph. Trag. Vetera, Leipsic, 1888). And this is confirmed by the first part of the same scholium: : i.e., the scholiast understood, ‘for thou didst not belong to thy mother more than to me,’ and took as=a vocative.

mvp-comment-647-1 οἱ κατ’ οἶκον ¹¹⁵⁴ ἦσαν ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-647-2 ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τροφός ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-648-1 ἀδελφὴ σοὶ ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-648-2 προσηυδώμην ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-649-1 ἐκλέλοιπε ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-649-2 θανόντι ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-649-3 συναρπάσας ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-649-4 θύελλ’ ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-650-1 τέθνηκ’ ἐγὼ σοί ¹¹⁶³ σοί ¹¹⁶⁴ τέθνηκ’ ἐγώ σοι ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-650-2 Others explain: (1) ‘I am dead because of thee’; ‘thou hast been the death of me.’ The dat. is then like that in Ai. 1128

(‘in his purpose, I am dead’). But this is less suitable to the context. (2) ‘I am dead to thee, as thou to me,’— i.e., we are now parted from each other by the barrier between earth and Hades.—The objection to τέθνηκ’ ἐγώ· σὺ ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-651-1 μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-651-2 ἧς ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-651-3 1160—

mvp-comment-652-1 οἴμοι μοί ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-653-1 κελεύθους ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-653-2 ἀπώλεσας ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-653-3 δῆτ’ ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-654-1 τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μ’ ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-654-2 τὴν μηδὲν ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-654-3 τὸ μηδὲν ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-655-1 μετεῖχον τῶν ἴσων ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-655-2 μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-656-1 τοὺς ¹¹⁷⁸ θανόντας ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-657-1 θνητοῦ ¹¹⁸⁰ θνητὸς ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-657-2 φρόνει ¹¹⁸²

mvp-comment-658-1 πᾶσιν γὰρ ἡμῖν ¹¹⁸³ τοῦτ’ ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-659-1 φεῦ φεῦ, τί λέξω ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-659-2 λόγων ¹¹⁸⁶ ποῖ ¹¹⁸⁷ ἀμηχανῶν ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-660-1 It is well to observe the delicately gradual process which leads up to the recognition.

mvp-comment-660-2 (i) 1176—1187. She is surprised that her woes should affect the stranger, and he hints that they are his own. (ii) 1188 —1198. She is thus led to speak more in detail of her sorrows, and of her despair,—caused by her brother's death. (iii) 1199—1204. He once more expresses his pity,—and this time in words which cause her to ask whether he can be a kinsman. He does not give a direct answer, but inquires whether the Chorus are friendly, and is assured that they are so.

mvp-comment-660-3 The preparation is now complete: the actual disclosure follows. (i) 1205— 1210. He asks her to give him the urn which is in her hands: she entreats that she may be allowed to keep it, and to pay it the last honours. (ii) 1211—1217. He tells her that she ought not to mourn for her brother. ‘Why,’ she asks: ‘if these are his ashes?’ ‘They are not so,’ he replies,—taking the urn from her hands. (iii) 1218—1221. ‘Where, then,’ she asks, ‘is his grave?’ ‘The living have no grave.’ ‘He lives?’ ‘Yes,—as surely as I live.’

mvp-comment-660-4 ἔσχες ἄλγος ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-661-1 κλεινὸν ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-662-1 Bergk has an ingenious (though, I think, mistaken) theory concerning this passage. Seeing that v. 1180 resembles v. 1184, he suggests that 1180 was an inferior variant for 1184: and, on similar grounds, that 1183 was a feebler substitute for 1179. That is, there were two different texts of this passage. ( a) In one of them, the better, verses 1180 and 1183 were absent, and the rest stood in this order, 1178, 1181, 1182, 1179, 1184. ( b) In the other, verses 1179 and 1184 were absent, and the rest stood in this order, 1178, 1181, 1182, 1183, 1180. The present text arose from an attempt to harmonise the other two.

mvp-comment-662-2 We have only to read the dialogue with attention to perceive that this hypothesis of variants is arbitrary. Verse 1183 expresses sympathy in a more definite and emphatic manner than v. 1179: verse 1184 expresses surprise more directly and decidedly than v. 1180. There is a gradual accentuation of the stranger's interest and of Electra's perplexity. This development is the internal proof that our text has not arisen from a dittographia.

mvp-comment-662-3 καὶ μάλ’ ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-663-1 ταλαίνης ¹¹⁹² συμφορᾶς ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-664-1 οὐ ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-665-1 ἀτίμως ¹¹⁹⁵ κἀθέως ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-666-1 ἢ )μὲ ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-666-2 δυσφημεῖς ¹¹⁹⁸ ἄλλην ¹¹⁹⁹ ξένε ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-667-1 ἀνύμφου ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-667-2 τροφῆς ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-668-1 τί δή ποτ’ ¹²⁰³ μοι ¹²⁰⁴ ἐπισκοπῶν ¹²⁰⁵ τί ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-669-1 ἐν τῷ … τῶν εἰρημένων ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-670-1 ὁρῶν σὲ ¹²⁰⁸ σὲ ¹²⁰⁹ σε ¹²¹⁰ τῶν ἐμῶν ¹²¹¹ σέ ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-670-2 ἐμπρέπουσαν ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-671-1 πόθεν ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-672-1 εἶτα ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-672-2 δουλεύω ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-673-1 ἀνάγκῃ … προτρέπει ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-674-1 ἐξισοῖ ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-675-1 χερσὶν ¹²¹⁹ λύμη βίου ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-676-1 οὑπαρήξων ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-677-1 προὔθηκας ¹²²²

mvp-comment-678-1 ποτέ ¹²²³ ἐμέ ¹²²⁴ νύν μ’ ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-679-1 τοῖσι σοῖς ¹²²⁶ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-679-2 The word ξυγγενὴς ¹²²⁸ τοῖσι σοῖς ¹²²⁹ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹²³⁰

mvp-comment-680-1 τὸ τῶνδε ¹²³¹

mvp-comment-681-1 νυν ¹²³²

mvp-comment-682-1 πιθοῦ ¹²³³ πείθου ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-683-1 πρὸς γενείου ¹²³⁵

mvp-comment-683-2 The reading of the MSS., μ<*> )ξέλη ¹²³⁶ μ’ ἐξέλῃ ¹²³⁷

mvp-comment-683-3 ἐξέλῃ ¹²³⁸

mvp-comment-683-4 τὰ φίλτατα ¹²³⁹

mvp-comment-684-1 οὐ φήμ’ ἐάσειν ¹²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-684-2 The division of the trimeter (

) marks agitation, as again in 1220—1226, 1323, etc. Cp. also O. T. 627 , O. C. 722 , Ph. 54 , etc.

mvp-comment-684-3 τάλαιν’ ἐγὼ σέθεν ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-685-1 εἰ στερήσομαι ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-686-1 ὦ φίλτατον φῶς ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-687-1 ὦ φθέγμ’ ¹²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-687-2 μηκέτ’ ἄλλοθεν πύθῃ ¹²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-688-1 ἔχω … ἔχοις ἀεί ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-689-1 πολίτιδες ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-690-1 μηχαναῖσι ¹²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-690-2 σεσωσμένον ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-691-1 συμφοραῖσι ¹²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-691-2 γεγηθὸς … δάκρυον ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-692-1 A

between Electra and Orestes. Strophe, 1232—1352,=antistr. 1253—1272 (a verse being lost after 1264). Epode, 1273— 1287. For metres see Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-693-1 γοναὶ σωμάτων ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-694-1 ἀρτίως ¹²⁵³

mvp-comment-694-2 οὓς ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-694-3 ἐχρήζετε ¹²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-695-1 σῖγ’ ἔχουσα ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-696-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ μὰ ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-696-2 τὴν ἄδμητον ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-696-3 Ἄρτεμιν ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-697-1 τόδε μὲν … ὂν ἀεί ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-697-2 περισσὸν ἄχθος ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-697-3 ἔνδον … ὂν ἀεί ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-698-1 γε μὲν δὴ ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-698-2 Ἄρης ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-698-3 εὖ δ’ ἔξοισθα ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀνέφελον … κακόν ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-699-2 The author of the scholium on 1245 read ἐνέβαλες ¹²⁶⁷ ἐπέβαλες ¹²⁶⁸ ὑπέβαλες ¹²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-699-3 καταλύσιμον ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-699-4 λησόμενον ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-699-5 The usual explanation is, ‘that cannot be forgotten’; but

is nowhere passive. There is, indeed, no classical fut. pass. of , for ( ) occurs only in later Greek (LXX. Ps. ix. 19 , etc.). Even =‘will forget,’ Eur. Alc. 198. — could mean, ‘that cannot escape notice’; for, though the act. is more usual in this sense ( Soph. Tr. 455 , Il. 23. 416 ), the midd. is so used by Hippocrates (2. 170), Arist. ( Pr. Anal. 2. 19), Lucian, etc. But here, especially after , such a sense would evidently be too weak.

mvp-comment-700-1 ἔξοιδα καὶ ταῦτ’ ¹²⁷² καὶ ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-700-2 παρουσία ¹²⁷⁴ φράζῃ ¹²⁷⁵ ἔργων τῶνδε ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-700-3 The scholia attest

as the traditional reading, and suggest two explanations. (1) : i.e., = , the circumstances of the moment. Cp. cum res ipsa feret. (2) . Here is evidently neuter, and the meaning is, ‘when these topics come before us,’—when it is the fitting time to discuss them. Neither view is satisfactory.

mvp-comment-700-4 The v.l. παρρησία ¹²⁷⁷ φράζῃ ¹²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-701-1 ὁ πᾶς … χρόνος ¹²⁷⁹ παρὼν ¹²⁸⁰ δίκᾳ ¹²⁸¹ ἐννέπειν ¹²⁸² πρέποι ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-701-2 μόλις γὰρ ¹²⁸⁴ ἔσχον ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-702-1 σῴζου τόδε ¹²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-703-1 μακρὰν … λέγειν ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-704-1 τίς οὖν ¹²⁸⁸ ἀξίαν ¹²⁸⁹ σοῦ πεφηνότος ¹²⁹⁰ λόγων ¹²⁹¹ μεταβάλοιτ’ ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-704-2 <*>δε ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-704-3 1264 After τότ’ εἶδες ¹²⁹⁴ ὅτε ¹²⁹⁵ εὖτε ¹²⁹⁶ ὅτε ¹²⁹⁷ θεοὶ ¹²⁹⁸ ὅτε ¹²⁹⁹ τότ’ ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-704-4 ἐπώτρυναν ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-705-1 χάριτος ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-705-2 ἐπόρισεν ¹³⁰³

mvp-comment-706-1 δαιμόνιον ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-706-2 τίθημ’ ¹³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-706-3 Electra remembers the warning dream (417 ff.), in which she had already surmised a supernatural agency (411: 459). It is indeed

that Orestes, sent by Apollo, should arrive at this moment.

mvp-comment-706-4 The punctuation given in the text seems best. The Aldine has only a comma after

: but then we should need a colon after .

mvp-comment-707-1 τὰ μὲν … τὰ δὲ ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-708-1 ὁδὸν … φανῆναι ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-709-1 τί μὴ ποήσω ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-710-1 μή μ’ ἀποστερήσῃς … ἁδονὰν ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-710-2 μεθέσθαι ¹³¹⁰

mvp-comment-711-1 ξυναινεῖς ¹³¹¹

mvp-comment-711-2 τί μὴν οὔ ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-712-1 ὦ φίλαι ¹³¹³ ὦ φίλ’, ὅτ’ ¹³¹⁴ φίλαι ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-712-2 αὐδάν ¹³¹⁶ οὐδ’ ἂν ἤλπις’ ¹³¹⁷

mvp-comment-712-3 1283 f. There can be no doubt that something has been lost before ἔσχον ¹³¹⁸ οὐδ’ ἂν ¹³¹⁹ ὁρμὰν ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-712-4

in Sophocles means either (1) ‘anger,’ or (2) ‘disposition’: Ant. 875 : ib. 355 : Ai. 639 . Neither sense can be fitted into any probable interpretation. Some have supposed the meaning to be that Electra ‘restrained her anger in silence,’ when Clyt. was exulting in the death of Orestes; but, in fact, her anger found a voice (see 792). Others understand that she ‘restrained her emotion’ (of grief), on hearing the sad news; but she did not do so (see 823—870): nor could mean ‘emotion’ in that sense.

mvp-comment-712-5 On the other hand

and were easily confused in MSS. Thus in Tr. 720 , where is right, has been written over in L, and is actually the reading of A, and of the Aldine. Cp. also O. T. 337.

mvp-comment-712-6 The context is the best guide to the sense which should be restored. Through out these lyrics, Orestes has been endeavouring to repress Electra's cries, lest she should be overheard (1236, 1238, 1251 f., 1257, 1259, 1271 f.). The corrupt words probably referred to this. ὁρμὰν ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-712-7 οὐδ’ ἂν ἔσχον ¹³²² ἄναυδον ¹³²³

mvp-comment-712-8 Other interpretations and conjectures will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-713-1 τάλαινα ¹³²⁴

mvp-comment-714-1 The first part of the third

began, at 1098, with the entrance of Orestes. Now, after the (1232—1287), comes the second part, going down to the point at which the avengers pass into the house, followed by Electra.

mvp-comment-714-2 τὰ … περισς. τῶν λόγων ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-715-1 καὶ μήτε μήτηρ ¹³²⁶

mvp-comment-715-2 Conington ( Journ. of Philology, I. p. 156) supposes an allusion to Eur. El. 300—338 , where Electra, speaking to the disguised Orestes, mentions her own sufferings, her mother's splendours, and the insolence of Aegisthus. But such an allusion seems improbable: that speech is not long; it comes in with dramatic fitness; nor does it refer to the wasteful profusion of Aegisthus, which is the main point here. A later speech of Electra's in the same play ( Eur. El. 907—951 ) would in some respects suit the words here better; but that is spoken over the corpse of Aegisthus, and could scarcely be regarded as delaying the action.

mvp-comment-715-3 Another theory, that Sophocles alludes to the earlier part of the Choephori, is certainly mistaken. Possibly he had no particular work in view, but was merely glancing at a tendency which he had noticed in contemporary drama.

mvp-comment-716-1 πατρῴαν ¹³²⁷ δόμων ¹³²⁸ ἀντλεῖ, τὰ δ’ ἐκχεῖ ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-716-2 ἐκχεῖ ¹³³⁰ διασπείρει μάτην ¹³³¹ ἀντλεῖ ¹³³²

mvp-comment-717-1 χρόνου … καιρὸν ¹³³³

mvp-comment-717-2 ἐξείργοι ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-717-3 Hermann took

as= , ‘the opportune moment of time.’ The meaning would then be that the might hinder them from seizing that moment. But the phrase is a strange one, scarcely to be justified by Sertor. 16, where is virtually personified,— .

mvp-comment-717-4 The schol. has:

. This only shows that he took as ‘opportunity,’ not as ‘due limit.’ It does not warrant the view that, instead of , he read or .

mvp-comment-718-1 φανέντες ¹³³⁵ κεκρυμμένοι ¹³³⁶ γελῶντας ¹³³⁷

mvp-comment-719-1 οὕτω δὲ ¹³³⁸ ὅπως ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-719-2 )πιγνώσεται ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-719-3 νῷν ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-719-4 ἐπελθόντοιν δόμους ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-720-1 μάτην ¹³⁴³ μὴ ¹³⁴⁴ τῇ ¹³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-720-2 εὐτυχησωμεν ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-721-1 καὶ σοὶ ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-721-2 ὧδ’ … τῇδε ¹³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-721-3 τοὐμὸν ¹³⁴⁹ φίλον ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-722-1 κοὐκ ἐμὰς ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-723-1 κοὐδ’ ¹³⁵² βραχὺ ¹³⁵³ καὶ ¹³⁵⁴ λυπήσασα ¹³⁵⁵ δεξαίμην ¹³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-724-1 ὑπηρετοίην ¹³⁵⁷ ὑπηρετοίμην ¹³⁵⁸ δαίμονι ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-725-1 τἀνθένδε ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-726-1 στέγας ¹³⁶¹ οἴκοις ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-726-2 δείσῃς … ὡς … ὄψεται ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-727-1 ἐντέτηκε ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-728-1 χαρᾷ ¹³⁶⁵ χαρᾶς ¹³⁶⁶ δακρυρροοῦσα ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-729-1 ἥτις ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-729-2 ἐσεῖδον ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-729-3 ᾶσκοπα ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-730-1 ὅτε ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-730-2 τοιαύτην ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-730-3 ὥς σοι ¹³⁷³ ὡς σοὶ ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-731-1 οὐκ ἂν δυοῖν ἥμαρτον ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-732-1 σιγᾶν … χωροῦντος ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-732-2 ἐπῄνες’ ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-732-3 ἐπ’ ἐξόδῳ ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-732-4 τῶν ἔνδοθεν ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-733-1 ἄλλως τε καὶ φέροντες ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-733-2 οἷ’ ἂν … ἀπώσαιτ’ ¹³⁸¹

mvp-comment-734-1 τητώμενοι ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-734-2 παρ’ οὐδὲν ¹³⁸³

mvp-comment-735-1 οὐ παρ’ αὐτοῖς ¹³⁸⁴ αὐτοῖς ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-736-1 σταθμοῖσι ¹³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-737-1 ὑμὶν … ὑμῶν ¹³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-737-2 τὰ δρώμεν’ ¹³⁸⁸ τὰ σώματα ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-738-1 νῦν δ’ … καὶ νῦν ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-739-1 σὺν χαρᾷ βοῆς ¹³⁹¹

mvp-comment-740-1 ἀπηλλάχθαι ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-741-1 It has been held that these verses, or at least 1340—1344, are spurious (cr. n.). Certainly Orestes has already heard from Electra that Clytaemnestra exults in the news of his death (1153—1156). Still, it is natural that he should make some reference (as he does in 1341) to his emissary's performance of the task. Not less natural is the question in 1343, since the old man, who entered the house at v. 803, is the only person who can tell whether the feeling described by Electra still exists.

mvp-comment-741-2 τἀντεῦθεν ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-742-1 ὑπάρχει ¹³⁹⁴ σε … τινά ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-743-1 ὡς ἔοικεν, ὡς τεθν ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-744-1 εἷς τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου … ἀνήρ ¹³⁹⁷ ἐνθάδε ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-745-1 χαίρουσιν οὖν τούτοισιν ¹³⁹⁹ ἐν ¹⁴⁰⁰ οὖν ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-746-1 τελουμένων ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-746-2 ὡς δὲ νῦν ἔχει ¹⁴⁰³ τὰ κείνων πάντα καλῶς ¹⁴⁰⁴ καὶ τὰ μὴ καλῶς ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-747-1 οὐχὶ ξυνίης ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-747-2 οὐδέ γ’ εἰς θυμὸν φέρω ¹⁴⁰⁷ οὐδέ ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-748-1 ποίῳ ¹⁴⁰⁹ ὅτῳ ¹⁴¹⁰ οἶσθα ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-748-2 οὗ … χεροῖν ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-748-3 πέδον ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-748-4 ὑπεξεπέμφθην ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-748-5 σῇ προμηθίᾳ ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-749-1 προσηῦρον πιστὸν ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-750-1 φῶς ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-751-1 τόνδε κἄμ’ ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-751-2 ἔσωσας ¹⁴¹⁹ κεῖνος ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-752-1 ὦ … χεῖρες ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-753-1 οὐδ’ ἔφαινες ¹⁴²² ἀλλά με ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-754-1 ἔργ’ ἔχων ¹⁴²⁴ ἐμοί ¹⁴²⁵ με ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-755-1 πατέρα ¹⁴²⁷ χαῖῤ, ὦ πάτερ ¹⁴²⁸ πατέρα ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-756-1 τοὺς … ἐν μέσῳ λόγους ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-756-2 The acc. τοὺς … λόγους ¹⁴³¹ ταῦτα ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-756-3 κυκλοῦνται ¹⁴³³ κυκλοῦσι ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-757-1 σφῷν δ’ ἐννέπω γε ¹⁴³⁵ γε ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-758-1 τούτοις ¹⁴³⁷ ἄλλοισι ¹⁴³⁸ σοφωτέροις ¹⁴³⁹ τούτων ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-758-2 Another view is that

in 1369 refers to Aegisthus and his armed followers, while τούτοις ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-759-1 οὐδὲν ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-760-1 πατρῷα ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-760-2 ἕδη ¹⁴⁴⁴ πρόπυλα ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-760-3 προσκύσαντε ¹⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-761-1 ἀφ’ ὧν ¹⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-761-2 ἔχοιμι ¹⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-761-3 λιπαρεῖ ¹⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-761-4 Blaydes and Wecklein read )πέστην ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-762-1 ἐξ οἵων ἔχω ¹⁴⁵¹ αἰτῶ ¹⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-762-2 1380 I read προπίπτω ¹⁴⁵³ προπίτνω ¹⁴⁵⁴ ι^ ¹⁴⁵⁵ ι— ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-763-1 τἀπιτίμια ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-764-1 ἴδεθ’ ¹⁴⁵⁸ ὅπου ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-764-2 προνέμεται ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-764-3 Campbell suggests that the image in

is from fire ‘eating its way’ forward, and compares Her. 5. 101 . This hardly agrees so well with the idea of a stealthy advance.

mvp-comment-765-1 τὸ δυσέριστον αἷμα ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-765-2 φυσῶν ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-766-1 δωμάτων ὑπόστεγοι ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-767-1 μετάδρομοι … κύνες ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-768-1 ἀμμενεῖ ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-769-1 τοὐμὸν φρενῶν ὄνειρον ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-769-2 αἰωρούμενον ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-770-1 ἐνέρων … ἀρωγός ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-771-1 ἀρχαιόπλουτα ¹⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-772-1 νεακόνητον αἷμα χειροῖν ἔχων ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-772-2 The bold use of αἷμα ¹⁴⁷¹ χειροῖν ἔχων ¹⁴⁷² αἷμα ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-772-3 If νεάκονητον ¹⁴⁷⁴ α ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-773-1 ὁ Μαίας δὲ παῖς ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-773-2 Ἑρμῆς σφ’ ἄγει ¹⁴⁷⁷ ς ¹⁴⁷⁸ σφ’ ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-774-1 A kommos. It falls into two principal parts. (1) 1398—1421; the death of Clytaemnestra. (2) 1422— 1441; Orestes and Pylades re-enter; Aegisthus approaches; and they prepare to receive him.

mvp-comment-774-2 The general structure of this kommos is clearly strophic; but critics differ on details. The simplest view is that of Dindorf and others, that vv. 1398—1421 form a single strophe,=antistr. 1422— 1441. The lyric verses 1407, 1413—4, and 1419—1421, correspond respectively with 1428, 1433—4, and 1439—1441: for these, see Metrical Analysis. It is usually held, with Hermann, that the correspondence of the iambic trimeters also must be exact. This makes it necessary to assume a gap in our text after v. 1427 (n.), and a second after 1429 (n.), besides the defect in 1432. See Appendix.

mvp-comment-774-3 Electra hastens out of the house. She performs the part of an

, so far as to describe the situation at this moment in the house: then Clytaemnestra's cry is heard, like that of the dying king in Aesch. Ag. 1343 ff. In the Orestes (408 B.C.) Electra has a similar part, perhaps suggested by this. Helen's cry is heard within, and Electra says to the Chorus (1297), .

mvp-comment-775-1 τελοῦσι ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-776-1 τάφον ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-776-2 λέβητα ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-776-3 κοσμεῖ ¹⁴⁸³