Sophocles Electra 246

mvp-comment-239-1 ταῦτα ¹ οὐκ ἐμοὺς ²

mvp-comment-240-1 γε ³ μέντοι ⁴

mvp-comment-240-2 μὴ )ξ ⁵

mvp-comment-240-3 πεσεῖν ⁶

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

.

mvp-comment-241-1 συγγνώμην ⁷

mvp-comment-242-1 τἄπη ⁸

mvp-comment-242-2 πρὸς κακῶν ⁹

mvp-comment-243-1 μή πω ¹⁰

mvp-comment-244-1 οἷπερ … ὁδοῦ ¹¹

mvp-comment-245-1 τῷ φέρεις ¹²

mvp-comment-245-2 ἔμπυρα ¹³

mvp-comment-246-1 τυμβεῦσαι χοάς ¹⁴

mvp-comment-247-1 βροτῶν ¹⁵

mvp-comment-248-1 ὃν ἔκταν’ αὐτή ¹⁶ ὅν γ’ ¹⁷

mvp-comment-249-1 τῷ τοῦτ’ ἤρεσεν ¹⁸

mvp-comment-250-1 δείματος ¹⁹

mvp-comment-250-2 δοκεῖν ἐμοί ²⁰

mvp-comment-251-1 θεοὶ πατρῷοι ²¹

mvp-comment-251-2 συγγένεσθέ γ’ ²²

mvp-comment-251-3 ἀλλὰ νῦν ²³

mvp-comment-252-1 εἴποιμ’ ἂν τότε ²⁴

mvp-comment-253-1 ἐπὶ σμικρὸν ²⁵ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν ²⁶

mvp-comment-253-2 φράσαι ²⁷

mvp-comment-254-1 σμικροὶ λόγοι ²⁸

mvp-comment-255-1 πατρὸς … δευτέραν ὁμιλίαν ²⁹

mvp-comment-255-2 ἐφέστιον πῆξαι ³⁰

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 ³¹

mvp-comment-256-1 ἔκ τε ³² ἐκ δὲ ³³

mvp-comment-256-2 βρύοντα ³⁴

mvp-comment-256-3 ᾧ … γενέσθαι ³⁵

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 ³⁶ τοῦ ³⁷ παρόντος ³⁸ του ³⁹

mvp-comment-257-2 Ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὖναρ ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-258-1 οὐ κάτοιδα, πλὴν ⁴¹

mvp-comment-258-2 πέμπει με κείνη ⁴²

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 ⁴³

mvp-comment-260-1 ἀβουλίᾳ ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-260-2 σὺν κακῷ ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-260-3 μέτει ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-261-1 ἀλλ’ ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-261-2 ὦ φίλη ⁴⁸ τούτων μὲν ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-262-1 οὐ … θέμις ⁵⁰ οὐδ’ ὅσιον ⁵¹

mvp-comment-262-2 ἐχθρᾶς ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ⁵²

mvp-comment-262-3 κτερίσματ’ ⁵³

mvp-comment-262-4 λουτρὰ ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-263-1 ἀλλ’ ἢ πνοαῖσιν ⁵⁵ ῥοαῖσιν ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-263-2 κρύψον ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-263-3 νιν ⁵⁸

mvp-comment-263-4 ἔνθα μή ποτ’ ⁵⁹ ἔνθεν ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-263-5 εὐνὴν ⁶¹

mvp-comment-264-1 ἀλλ’ ὅταν θάῃν ⁶²

mvp-comment-264-2 The conjecture ἔστ’ ἂν ⁶³ ὅταν ⁶⁴ σῳζέσθω ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-264-3 κειμήλἰ ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀρχὴν ⁶⁷ τλημονεστάτη ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-266-1 ἔβλαστε ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-267-1 ὅν γ’ … τῷδ’ ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-267-2 ἐπέστεφε ⁷¹

mvp-comment-267-3 442 f. The position of αὐτῇ ⁷²

mvp-comment-267-4 δέξεσθαι ⁷³

mvp-comment-267-5 It seems, then, a reasonable inference that here, where the reference is to future time, he would have written δέξεσθαι ⁷⁴ δέξασθαι ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-267-6 444 ff. Join θανὼν ἄτιμος ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-267-7 ἐμασχαλίσθη ⁷⁷

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 ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-267-10 ἐξέμαξ ν ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-267-11 ἆρα μὴ ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-268-1 οὐκ ἔστιν ⁸¹

mvp-comment-268-2 ταῦτα μὲν μέθες· σὺ δὲ ⁸²

mvp-comment-269-1 βοστρύχων ἄκρας φόβας ⁸³

mvp-comment-269-2 κἀμοῦ ταλαίνης ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-270-1 †ἀλιπαρῆ ⁸⁵ λιπαρῆ ⁸⁶

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

may conceal some corruption: ought possibly to be τήνδε τ’ ⁸⁷ ἀλίπαρον ⁸⁸

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 ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-271-2 χλιδαῖς ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-272-1 προσπίτνουσα ⁹¹ αὐτὸν ⁹²

mvp-comment-273-1 ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χερός ⁹³

mvp-comment-273-2 ζῶντ’ ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-274-1 ἀφνεωτέραις ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-274-2 στέφωμεν ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-274-3 δωρούμεθα ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-275-1 οἶμαι μὲν οὖν ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-275-2 If μέλον ⁹⁹ μέλειν ¹⁰⁰ μέλον ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-276-1 σοί ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-277-1 βροτῶν ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-278-1 πρὸς εὐσέβειαν ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-279-1 δράσω ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-279-2 τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον ¹⁰⁶

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 ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-280-1 παρ’ ὑμῶν ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-281-1 πικρὰν ¹⁰⁹ δοκῶ με … τολμήσειν ¹¹⁰ ἔτι ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-282-1 εἰ μὴ )γὼ ¹¹²

mvp-comment-282-2 γνώμας λειπομένα ¹¹³

mvp-comment-283-1 ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-283-2 δίκαια φερομένα χεροῖν κράτη ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-284-1 μέτεισιν ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-284-2 οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-285-1 ὕπεστί μοι θράσος ¹¹⁸ κλύουσαν ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-285-2 ἁδυπνόων … ὀνειράτων ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-286-1 ἀμναστεῖ γ’ ὁ φύσας ς’ ¹²¹

mvp-comment-287-1 χαλκόπλακτος ¹²²

mvp-comment-287-2 γένυς ¹²³

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 ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-289-1 καὶ πολύπους καὶ πολύχειρ ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-290-1 λόχοις ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-290-2 χαλκόπους ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-291-1 ἄλεκτρ’ ἄνυμφα ¹²⁸

mvp-comment-291-2 γάμων ἁμιλλήμαθ’ ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-291-3 ἐπέβα ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-292-1 πρὸ τῶνδέ τοι … συνδρῶσιν ¹³¹

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 ¹³²

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 ¹³³

mvp-comment-293-1 ἀψεγές ¹³⁴ ἀψεφές ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-293-2 πελᾶν ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-294-1 τοῖς δρῶσι ¹³⁷ τοῖς συνδρῶσιν ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-295-1 μαντεῖαι βροτῶν ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-296-1 εὖ κατασχήσει ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-297-1 ἱππεία ¹⁴¹

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 ¹⁴²

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 ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-299-2 ὁ ποντισθεὶς Μυρτίλος ¹⁴⁴

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 ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-300-1 παγχρυσέων δίφρων ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-301-1 πρόρριζος ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-301-2 ἐκριφθείς ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-302-1 ἔλειπεν ¹⁴⁹ ἔλιπεν ¹⁵⁰ οἴκου ¹⁵¹ οἴκους ¹⁵² πω ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-303-1 πολύπονος ¹⁵⁴ αἰκία ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-304-1 ἀνειμένη ¹⁵⁶ μέν ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-304-2 ὡς ἔοικας ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-304-3 στρέφει ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-304-4 Clytaemnestra begins in the same strain as Chrysothemis, who likewise emphasised her reproof by the word αὖ ¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-305-1 μή τοι θυραίαν γ’ ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-305-2 αἰσχύνειν φίλους ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-306-1 καίτοι ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-306-2 δὴ ¹⁶⁴ πολλούς ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-306-3 ἐξεῖπάς με … ὡς ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-306-4 θρασεῖα ¹⁶⁷ τραχεῖα ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-306-5 ἄρχω ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-307-1 ὕβριν … οὐκ ἔχω ¹⁷⁰ κακῶς κλύουσα ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-308-1 πατὴρ γάρ ¹⁷²

mvp-comment-308-2 πρόσχημα ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-309-1 ἡ γὰρ Δίκη ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-310-1 ᾗ χρῆν σ’ ἀρήγειν ¹⁷⁵

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 ¹⁷⁶ Ἑλλήνων ¹⁷⁷

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 ¹⁷⁸

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 ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-315-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντ’ ἀδελφοῦ δῆτα ¹⁸⁰ κτανὼν ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-315-2 ἀντὶ ἀδελφοῦ ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-315-3 τἄμ’ ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-316-1 παῖδες … διπλοῖ ¹⁸⁴

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

.

mvp-comment-317-1 ἢ ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-317-2 ἢ τῶν ἐμῶν Ἅιδης ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-318-1 δαίσασθαι ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-318-2 The conj. λῄσασθαι ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-319-1 πανώλει ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-319-2 παρεῖτο ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-319-3 The sense does not absolutely require us to take Μενέλεω δ’ ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-320-1 ἀβούλου ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-320-2 κακοῦ γνώμην ¹⁹³

mvp-comment-321-1 δοκῶ μέν ¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-321-2 εἰ καὶ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-322-1 εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-323-1 τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-324-1 γνώμην δικαίαν σχοῦσα ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-325-1 ἐρεῖς μὲν οὐχὶ ¹⁹⁹ ἐρεῖς ²⁰⁰ ἐρεῖς … μ’ ὡς ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-325-2 ἄρξασά τι λυπηρὸν ²⁰²

mvp-comment-325-3 τάδ’ ἐξήκους’ ²⁰³

mvp-comment-326-1 τοῦ τεθνηκότος θ’ ὕπερ ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-327-1 καὶ μὴν ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-327-2 λόγους ἐξῆρχές με ²⁰⁶

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 ²⁰⁷ πατέρα ²⁰⁸ φὴς ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-329-1 εἴτ’ οὖν … εἴτε ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-329-2 λέξω ²¹¹ δείξω ²¹²

mvp-comment-330-1 ὡς οὐ δίκῃ γ’ ²¹³ ἔσπασεν ²¹⁴ πειθὼ ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-331-1 κυναγὸν ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-331-2 ποινὰς ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-331-3 τὰ πολλὰ πνεύματ’ ἔσχ’ ²¹⁸ τὰ πολλὰ ²¹⁹ ἔσχε ²²⁰

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 ²²¹

mvp-comment-331-8 Αὐλίδι ²²²

mvp-comment-332-1 ἢ )γὼ φράσω ²²³ κείνης ²²⁴

mvp-comment-333-1 ὡς ἐγὼ κλύω ²²⁵

mvp-comment-333-2 θεᾶς … κατ’ ἄλσος ²²⁶

mvp-comment-333-3 παίζων ²²⁷

mvp-comment-333-4 ποδοῖν ²²⁸

mvp-comment-334-1 ἔλαφον ²²⁹

mvp-comment-334-2 στικτὸν ²³⁰

mvp-comment-334-3 κεράστην ²³¹

mvp-comment-334-4 οὗ κατὰ σφαγὰς ²³²

mvp-comment-335-1 ἐκκομπάσας ἔπος τι τυγχάνει ²³³ βαλών ²³⁴

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 ²³⁵ ἔπος ²³⁶

mvp-comment-335-4 Monk, with Musgrave, took σφαγὰς ²³⁷

mvp-comment-336-1 ἐκ τοῦδε ²³⁸

mvp-comment-336-2 μηνίσασα ²³⁹

mvp-comment-336-3 Λητῴα κόρη ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-337-1 ὡς ²⁴¹ ἀντίσταθμον ²⁴²

mvp-comment-337-2 ἐκθύσειε ²⁴³

mvp-comment-338-1 ὧδ’ ἦν ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-338-2 τὰ … θύματ’ ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-338-3 λύσις ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-338-4 πρὸς οἶκον ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-339-1 πολλὰ ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-339-2 ἀντιβὰς ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-339-3 μόλις ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-340-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-340-2 ἐρῶ γὰρ καὶ τὸ σόν ²⁵²

mvp-comment-341-1 τούτου … οὕνεκ’ ²⁵³

mvp-comment-341-2 νόμῳ ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-342-1 ὅρα ²⁵⁵ μὴ … τιθῇς ²⁵⁶ τίθης ²⁵⁷

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 ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-343-1 εἰ γὰρ κτενοῦμεν ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-343-2 πρώτη ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-344-1 εἰσόρα ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-344-2 οὐκ οὖσαν ²⁶²

mvp-comment-344-3 τίθης ²⁶³

mvp-comment-344-4 εἰ … θέλεις ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-345-1 τῷ παλαμναίῳ ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-345-2 πρόσθεν ἐξαπώλεσας ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-346-1 παιδοποιεῖς ²⁶⁷

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 ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-346-4 κἀξ εὐσεβῶν ²⁶⁹

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 ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-346-7 ἐκβαλοῦσ’ ἔχεις ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-347-1 πῶς ταῦτ’ ἐπαινέσαιμ’ ἄν ²⁷²

mvp-comment-347-2 ἢ ²⁷³ ἦ ²⁷⁴ καὶ τοῦτ’ ²⁷⁵ ἄποινα ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-348-1 αἰσχρῶς δ’ ²⁷⁷ δ’ ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐάν περ καὶ λέγῃς ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-348-3 ἐχθροῖς γαμεῖσθαι ²⁸⁰

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 ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-349-2 πᾶσαν ἵης γλῶσσαν ²⁸²

mvp-comment-350-1 κακοστομοῦμεν ²⁸³

mvp-comment-350-2 καί σ’ ἔγωγε δεσπότιν ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-350-3 εἰς ἡμᾶς ²⁸⁵ ἣ ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-351-1 βίον μοχθηρόν ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-351-2 ἔκ τε σοῦ ²⁸⁸ κακοῖς … ξυνοῦσα ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-351-3 συννόμου ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-352-1 ὁ δ’ ἄλλος ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-352-2 χεῖρα σὴν ²⁹²

mvp-comment-352-3 τρίβει βίον ²⁹³

mvp-comment-352-4 603 The reason for writing δή με σοὶ ²⁹⁴ δή μέ σοι ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-352-5 μιάστορα ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-353-1 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκα ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-354-1 εἰς ἅπαντας ²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-354-2 χρῇς ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-354-3 στόμαργον ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-355-1 τῶνδε τῶν ἔ|ργων ἴδρις ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-355-2 σχεδόν τι ³⁰²

mvp-comment-355-3 οὐ καταισχύνω ³⁰³

mvp-comment-356-1 ὁρῶ μένος πνέουσαν ³⁰⁴ μένος πνέουσαν ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-356-2 σὺν δίκῃ ξύνεστι ³⁰⁶

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 ³⁰⁷ ἐμοὶ ³⁰⁸ μοι ³⁰⁹ δεῖ ³¹⁰

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 ³¹¹

mvp-comment-358-2 τηλικοῦτος ³¹²

mvp-comment-358-3 ἆρα ³¹³

mvp-comment-358-4 χωρεῖν ἂν ³¹⁴ εἰς πᾶν ἔργον ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-359-1 εὖ νυν ἐπίστω ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-359-2 ἔξωρα ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-359-3 προσεικότα ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀλλὰ … γὰρ ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-360-2 ἡ … ἐκ σοῦ δυσμένεια ³²⁰

mvp-comment-360-3 ἐξαναγκάζει ³²¹ αἰσχροῖς ³²²

mvp-comment-360-4 622 f. The word θρέμμα ³²³

mvp-comment-360-5 ἦ σ’ ἐγὼ ³²⁴

mvp-comment-361-1 νιν ³²⁵

mvp-comment-361-2 εὑρίσκεται ³²⁶

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 ³²⁷

mvp-comment-362-2 δέσποιναν ³²⁸

mvp-comment-362-3 Ἄρτεμιν ³²⁹

mvp-comment-362-4 θράσους τοῦδ’ οὐκ ἀλύξεις ³³⁰ μόλῃ ³³¹

mvp-comment-363-1 ὁρᾷς ³³²

mvp-comment-363-2 ἐκφέρει ³³³

mvp-comment-363-3 The v. l. παρεῖσα ³³⁴

mvp-comment-364-1 οὐδὲ ³³⁵

mvp-comment-364-2 ὑπ’ εὐφήμου βοῆς ³³⁶

mvp-comment-364-3 ἐπειδὴ σοί γ’ ³³⁷

mvp-comment-364-4 πᾶν λέγειν ³³⁸

mvp-comment-365-1 κελεύω ³³⁹

mvp-comment-365-2 τοὐμὸν στόμ’ ³⁴⁰

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 ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-365-4 ἡ παροῦσά μοι ³⁴²

mvp-comment-365-5 θύματα … πάγκαρπα ³⁴³

mvp-comment-366-1 λυτηρίους … δειμάτων ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-366-2 ἀνάσχω ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-367-1 κλύοις ἂν ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-367-2 προστατήριε ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-368-1 κεκρυμμένην ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-368-2 οὐ γὰρ ἐν φίλοις ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-369-1 πρὸς φῶς ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-370-1 πολυγλώσσῳ ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-370-2 σπείρῃ ³⁵²

mvp-comment-370-3 ματαίαν ³⁵³

mvp-comment-371-1 ὧδ’ ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-372-1 γὰρ ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-372-2 δισσῶν ὀνείρων ³⁵⁶

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 ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-373-1 ἐσθλά … ἐχθρά ³⁵⁸

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 ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-374-1 εἴ τινες ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-375-1 ἀλλ’ ὧδε ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-375-2 ἀβλαβεῖ βίῳ ³⁶²

mvp-comment-376-1 δόμους ³⁶³

mvp-comment-376-2 ἀμφέπειν ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-376-3 φίλοισι ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-377-1 εὐημεροῦσαν ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-377-2 καὶ τέκνων ³⁶⁷ ὅσων ³⁶⁸

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 ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-378-1 πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντα ³⁷¹

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 ³⁷²

mvp-comment-380-1 ἦ καὶ ³⁷³

mvp-comment-380-2 ἐπεικάζων κυρῶ ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-380-3 πρέπ<*> γὰρ ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-381-1 μάλιστα πάντων ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-381-2 ἥδε σοι κείνη πάρα ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-381-3 666 f. The ὦ ³⁷⁸ χαῖρε ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-382-1 ἐδεξάμην τὸ ῥηθέν ³⁸⁰

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 ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-383-1 Φανοτεὺς ³⁸²

mvp-comment-383-2 πρᾶγμα πορσύνων μέγα ³⁸³

mvp-comment-384-1 τὸ ποῖον ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-385-1 ἐν βραχεῖ ξυνθεὶς ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-386-1 τί φής, τί φής ³⁸⁶ ξεῖνε ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-386-2 ταύτης ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-387-1 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-388-1 οὐδέν εἰμ’ ἔτι ³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-389-1 τὰ σαυτῆς πρᾶσς’ ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-389-2 διόλλυται ³⁹²

mvp-comment-390-1 κἀπεμπόμην ³⁹³ καὶ … φράσω ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-391-1 γὰρ ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-392-1 πρόσχημ’ ἀγῶνος ³⁹⁶ Ἑλλάδος ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-392-2 πρόσχημα ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-392-3 Δελφ. ἄθλων ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-393-1 ὀρθίων ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-393-2 δρόμον … οὗ πρώτη κρίσις ⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-394-1 εἰσῆλθε ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-395-1 ἰσώσας * τἀφέσει ⁴⁰³ τῇ φύσει ⁴⁰⁴

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 ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-396-1 νίκης … γέρας ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-397-1 χὥπως μὲν ⁴⁰⁷

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 ⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-398-2 εἰσεκήρυξαν ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-398-3 βραβῆς ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-399-1 δρομων διαύλων ⁴¹¹

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

in 692 to .

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐνεγκὼν ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-400-2 τἀπινίκια ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-401-1 ὠλβίζετ’ ⁴¹⁴ ἀνακαλ ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-401-2 Ἀγαμέμνονος ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-401-3 ἀγείραντος ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-402-1 καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τοιαῦθ’ ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-402-2 βλάπτῃ ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-402-3 ἰσχύων ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-403-1 ἄλλης ἡμέρας ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-403-2 ἱππικῶν ⁴²²

mvp-comment-404-1 ἡλίου τέλλοντος ⁴²³

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 ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-406-1 Λίβυες ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-406-2 ζυγωτῶν ⁴²⁶ ἐπιστάται ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-407-1 κἀκεῖνος ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-407-2 ἐν τούτοισι ⁴²⁹ ἐπὶ ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-407-3 Θεσσαλὰς … ἵππους ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-408-1 ξανθαῖσι ⁴³²

mvp-comment-408-2 πώλοις ⁴³³

mvp-comment-408-3 Μάγνης ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-409-1 λεύκιππος ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-409-2 Αἰνιὰν ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-410-1 τῶν θεοδμήτων ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-411-1 ἄλλος ⁴³⁸ ἐκπληρῶν ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-412-1 στάντες ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-412-2 †ὅθ’ αὐτοὺς ⁴⁴¹ ὅθ’ ⁴⁴² ἵν’ ⁴⁴³ ὅτ’ ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-412-3 βραβῆς ⁴⁴⁵ οἱ τεταγμένοι ⁴⁴⁶

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 ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-413-1 χαλκῆς ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-413-2 ὑπαὶ ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-413-3 οἱ δ’ ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-414-1 ὁμοκλήσαντες ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-415-1 ἐν δὲ ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-415-2 κροτητῶν ⁴⁵³

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’ ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-417-1 κέντρων ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-417-2 ὡς ὑπερβάλοι ⁴⁵⁶ τις ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-417-3 χνόας ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-417-4 φρυάγμαθ’ ἱππικά ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-418-1 ὁμοῦ γὰρ ἀμφὶ νῶτα ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-418-2 τροχῶν βάσεις ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-418-3 εἰσέβαλλον ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-419-1 ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-419-2 ἐσχάτην στήλην ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-420-1 ἔχριμπτ’ ἀεὶ σύριγγα ⁴⁶⁵ ἔχριμπτ’ ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-420-2 δεξιὸν δ’ ἀνεὶς κ.τ.λ. ⁴⁶⁷

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 ⁴⁶⁸ ἔπειτα δ’ ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-421-2 ἕστασαν ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-422-1 ἄστομοι ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-422-2 βίᾳ φέρουσιν ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-422-3 ἐκ δ’ ὑποστροφῆς ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-423-1 τελοῦντες κ.τ.λ. ⁴⁷⁴

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 ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-424-1 ἐξ ἑνὸς κακοῦ ⁴⁷⁶ ἔθραυε καὶ ἐνέπιπτε ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-424-2 ναυαγίων ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-424-3 Κρισαῖον … πέδον ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-425-1 γνοὺς δ’ ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-425-2 κἀνοκωχεύει ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-425-3 κλύδων’ ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔσχατος μὲν ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-426-2 ὑστέρας ἔχων ⁴⁸⁴ φέρων ⁴⁸⁵ πίστιν φέρων ⁴⁸⁶

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 ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-428-1 ἐνσείσας. ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-429-1 κἀξισώσαντε ζυγὰ ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-429-2 τότ’ … ἄλλοθ’ ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-429-3 ἄλλος … ἅτερος ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-429-4 κάρα προβάλλων ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-429-5 For προβάλλων ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-430-1 τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους πάντας ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-430-2 ἀσφαλεῖς ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-430-3 ὠρθοῦθ’ ⁴⁹⁶ ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δί‐ ⁴⁹⁷ φρων ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-431-1 λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-432-1 χνόας ⁵⁰⁰ μέσας ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-433-1 ἀντύγων ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-433-2 σὺν δ’ ἑλίσσεται ⁵⁰³ τμητοῖς ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-434-1 διεσπάρησαν εἰς μέσον δρόμον ⁵⁰⁵

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

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

mvp-comment-435-1 στρατὸς ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-435-2 δίφρων ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-435-3 ἀνωλόλυξε ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-435-4 οἷ’ … οἷα ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-436-1 φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-436-2 ἄλλοτ’ ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-436-3 οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων ⁵¹²

mvp-comment-437-1 διφρηλάται ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-437-2 κατασχεθόντες ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-438-1 κέαντες ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-438-2 ἐν βραχεῖ χαλκῷ ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-438-3 μέγιστον ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-438-4 σῶμα … σποδοῦ ⁵¹⁸

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 ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-439-2 ἐκλάχῃ ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-440-1 τοιαῦτά σοι ⁵²¹ ταῦτ’ ἐστίν ⁵²²

mvp-comment-440-2 ὡς μὲν ἐν λόγῳ ⁵²³

mvp-comment-440-3 τοῖς δ’ ἰδ., οἵπερ εἴδομεν ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-440-4 764 f. The word δεσπόταισι ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-440-5 πρόρριζον ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ Ζεῦ ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-441-2 λέγω ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-442-1 τῷ νῦν λόγῳ ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-443-1 δεινὸν ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-443-2 πάσχοντι ⁵³¹ ὧν τέκῃ ⁵³²

mvp-comment-444-1 μάτην ἄρ’ ἡμεῖς κ.τ.λ. ⁵³³

mvp-comment-445-1 μάτην λέγοις ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-446-1 ψυχῆς ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-447-1 μαστῶν κ.τ.λ. ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-447-2 ἀποστὰς ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-447-3 ἀπεξενοῦτο ⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-448-1 φόνους ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-449-1 ὥστ’ οὔτε … στεγάζειν ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-449-2 ἐξ ἡμέρας ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-449-3 στεψάζειν ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-449-4 ὁ προστατῶν χρόνος ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-449-5 διῆγε ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-449-6 783 f. The perf. ἀπήλλαγμαι ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-449-7 μείζων ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-450-1 τοὐμὸν ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-450-2 ἐκπίνους’ ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-450-3 ἄκρατον ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-450-4 νῦν δ’ ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-450-5 ἕκηλα ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-450-6 οὕνεχ’ ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-450-7 ἡμερεύσομεν ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-451-1 οἴμοι τάλαινα ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-451-2 οἰμῶξαι ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-452-1 ἆρ’ ἔχει καλῶς ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-453-1 οὔτοι σὺ ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-454-1 Νέμεσι ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-454-2 τοῦ θανόντος ἀρτίως ⁵⁵⁹

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 ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-455-2 κἀπεκύρωσεν ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-456-1 οὔκουν … τάδε ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-457-1 οὐχ ὅπως σε παύσομεν ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-458-1 πολλῶν ἂν ἥκοις ⁵⁶⁴ ἔπαυσας ⁵⁶⁵ παύσαις ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-458-2 πολλῶν ⁵⁶⁷ ἄξιος ⁵⁶⁸ τυχεῖν ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-459-1 εὖ κυρεῖ ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-459-2 800 f. With πράξειας ⁵⁷¹

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

seem, then, superfluous. The change of καταξίως ⁵⁷² πράξειας ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-459-4 τοῦ πορεύς. ξένου ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-460-1 τῶν φίλων ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-461-1 ἆρ’ ὑμὶν ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-461-2 ὧδ’ ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-462-1 ὥς μ’ ἀπώλεσας θανών ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-463-1 ἀποσπάσας ⁵⁷⁹ αἵ ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-464-1 μολεῖν ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-465-1 δουλεύειν ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-465-2 πάλιν ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-466-1 ἆρά μοι καλῶς ἔχει ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-467-1 τοῦ λοιποῦ χρόνου ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-467-2 818 *

, Hermann's correction of , is made certain by . No dative is needed to explain ξύνοικος ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-468-1 παρεῖσ’ ἐμαυτὴν ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-468-2 αὐανῶ ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-469-1 χάρις ⁵⁸⁹

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 ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-470-4 φαέθων ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-470-5 ἐφορῶντες ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-470-6 κρύπτουσιν ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-471-1 τί δακρύεις ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-472-1 μηδὲν μέγ’ ἀΰσῃς ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-472-2 ἀΰσῃς ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-473-1 ἀπολεῖς ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-474-1 τῶν … οἰχομένων ⁵⁹⁸ φανερῶς ⁵⁹⁹ ἐλπίδα ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-475-1 κατ’ ἐμοῦ τακομένας ⁶⁰¹ ἐπεμβάσει ⁶⁰² κατ’ ἐμοὶ τακομένᾳ ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-476-1 οἶδα γὰρ ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-476-2 Ἀμφιάρεων ⁶⁰⁵ ἄνακτα ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-477-1 χρυσοδέτοις ἕρκεσι ⁶⁰⁷ γυναικῶν ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-477-2 κρυφθέντα ⁶⁰⁹

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 ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-479-1 πάμψυχος ⁶¹¹

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 ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-480-2 φεῦ δῆτ’ ⁶¹³ ὀλοὰ γὰρ ⁶¹⁴ ἐδάμη ⁶¹⁵ ὀλοὰ ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-480-3 ἐδάμη ⁶¹⁷ ναί ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-481-1 μελέτωρ ⁶¹⁹

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 ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-483-1 ἀναρπασθείς ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-484-1 δειλαία δειλαίων ⁶²²

mvp-comment-485-1 ἴστωρ ⁶²³

mvp-comment-486-1 πανσύρτῳ … αἰῶνι ⁶²⁴ αἰῶνι ⁶²⁵

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 ⁶²⁶

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 ⁶²⁷ ἃ θροεῖς ⁶²⁸ ἃ θρηνεῖς ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-488-1 μή μέ νυν ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-488-2 παραγάγῃς ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-488-3 ἵν’ ⁶³²

mvp-comment-489-1 τί φής ⁶³³

mvp-comment-490-1 πάρεισιν ἐλπίδων ἔτι ⁶³⁴

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 ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-492-1 χαλαργοῖς ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-493-1 τμητοῖς ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-494-1 ἄσκοπος ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-494-2 ἁ λώβα ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-495-1 ξένος ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-496-1 ἄτερ ἐμᾶν χερῶν ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-497-1 κέκευθεν ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-497-2 οὔτε του ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-497-3 ἀντιάσας ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-497-4 τάφου … γόων ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-498-1 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς τοι ⁶⁴⁶ τοι ⁶⁴⁷ σοι ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-499-1 τὸ κόσμιον ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-499-2 873 For the place of ὦν ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-500-1 σὺ ⁶⁵¹ ἴασιν οὐκ ἔνεστ’ ἰδεῖν ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-501-1 ἐναργῶς ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-502-1 ἀλλ’ ἦ ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-502-2 τοῖς ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-503-1 μὰ τὴν πατρῴαν ἑστίαν ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-503-2 ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὕβρει ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-503-3 ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον ⁶⁵⁸ ὡς ⁶⁵⁹

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

for νῷν ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-504-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁶⁶¹ τε καί ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-505-1 ἰδοῦσα πίστιν ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-505-2 εἰς τί μοι ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-505-3 ἀνηκέστῳ ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-505-4 πυρί ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-506-1 σὺ δ’ οὖν ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-506-2 τῷ λόγῳ ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-507-1 καὶ δὴ ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-507-2 κατειδόμην ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-508-1 ἀρχαῖον τάφον ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-509-1 κολώνης ἐξ ἄκρας ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-509-2 γάλακτος ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-509-3 περιστεφῆ … ἀνθέων ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-509-4 ἔστιν ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-509-5 θήκην ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-510-1 ἔσχον θαῦμα ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-510-2 ἐγχρίμπτῃ ⁶⁷⁸ ἐγχρίμπτει ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-511-1 ἐν γαλήνῃ ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-512-1 ἐσχάτης … πυρᾶς ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-512-2 νεώρη ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-513-1 ἐμπαίει κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁸³ ὄμμα ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-513-2 σύνηθες ⁶⁸⁵ ὁρᾶν ⁶⁸⁶

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 ⁶⁸⁷

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 ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-514-1 βαστάσασα ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-514-2 δυσφηυῶ μὲν οὔ ⁶⁹⁰ οὔ ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-515-1 νῦν θ’ ὁμοίως καὶ τότ’ ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-515-2 μή του ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-515-3 ἀγλάϊσμα ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-515-4 911 f. The elliptical πῶς γὰρ ⁶⁹⁵ ᾗ γε ⁶⁹⁶ μηδὲ ⁶⁹⁷ πρὸς θεοὺς ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-515-5 ἀκλαύστῳ ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-516-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-517-1 οὔτε δρῶσ’ ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁷⁰¹

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 ⁷⁰² δρῶσα ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-517-4 If ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁷⁰⁴ ἔληθεν ἄν ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-517-5 915 *

is Dindorf's certain correction of τἀπιτίμια ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-518-1 θάρσυνε ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-518-2 οὐχ αὑτὸς ἀεί ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-519-1 νῷν ἧν ⁷⁰⁹ δ’ ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-519-2 κῦρος ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-520-1 φεῦ τῆς ἀνοίας ὥς ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-521-1 ὅποι γῆς … φέρει ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-522-1 πῶς δ’ οὐκ ἐγὼ κάτοιδ’ ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-523-1 τἀκείνου … σωτήρια ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-524-1 καὶ ποῦ ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-524-2 ὑπέρχεται ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-525-1 μητρὶ ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-526-1 τὰ πολλὰ ⁷¹⁹ πρὸς τάφον ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-527-1 μάλιστ’ ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-527-2 μνημεἶ ⁷²²

mvp-comment-528-1 ὦ δυστυχής ⁷²³

mvp-comment-528-2 τοιούσδ’ ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-529-1 ἵν’ ἦμεν ἄτης ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-530-1 λύσεις ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-531-1 οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅ γ’ εἶπον ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-532-1 φερέγγυος ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-533-1 τλῆναι … δρῶσαν ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-534-1 ὠφέλειά γ’ ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-535-1 ὅρα ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-535-2 πόνου … εὐτυχεῖ ⁷³²

mvp-comment-536-1 ξυνοίσω ⁷³³

mvp-comment-537-1 ποεῖν ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-538-1 παρουσίαν ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-538-2 καὶ σύ που ⁷³⁶

mvp-comment-539-1 λελείμμεθον ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-540-1 θάλλοντ’ ἔτ’ ⁷³⁸ βίῳ ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-541-1 πράκτοῤ ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-542-1 εἰς σὲ δὴ βλέπω ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-543-1 κατοκνήσεις ⁷⁴² κατοκνήσῃς ⁷⁴³

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 ⁷⁴⁴

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 ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-545-2 βλέψας’ ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-546-1 κτῆσιν ⁷⁴⁷ ἐστερημένῃ ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-547-1 ἐς τοσόνδε τοῦ χρόνου ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-548-1 ἄλεκτρα … ἀνυμέναια ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-548-2 γηράσκουσαν ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-549-1 τῶνδε ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-549-2 ὅπως ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-550-1 ἢ κἀμὸν ⁷⁵⁴ πημονὴν ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-551-1 ἐπίσπῃ ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-552-1 εὐσέβειαν … οἴσει ⁷⁵⁷ θανόντος ⁷⁵⁸ κάτω ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-552-2 970 ff. The compound ἐξέφυς ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-552-3 καλεῖ ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-552-4 τὰ χρηστὰ ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-553-1 λόγων γε μὴν εὔκλειαν ⁷⁶³ λόγων ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-554-1 ἀστῶν ἢ ξένων ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-554-2 δεξιώσεται ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-555-1 ἴδεσθε ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-556-1 εὖ βεβηκόσιν ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-556-2 ἀφειδήσαντε ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-556-3 προὐστήτην φόνου ⁷⁷⁰ ἐχθροῖς ⁷⁷¹ φόνου ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-556-4 981 f. For τούτω … τώδε ⁷⁷³ ἑορταῖς ⁷⁷⁴ πανδήμῳ πόλει ⁷⁷⁵ τοι ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-557-1 συμπόνει ⁷⁷⁷ σύγκαμνε ⁷⁷⁸

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 ⁷⁷⁹ ἐμέ ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-557-4 παῦσον ἐκ κακῶν ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-557-5 989 In τοῖς καλῶς πεφυκόσιν ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-558-1 ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ⁷⁸³ καὶ κλύοντι ⁷⁸⁴ σύμμαχος ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-558-2 993 For the place of μὴ ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-558-3 ἐσῴζετ’ ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-559-1 ἐμβλέψασα ⁷⁸⁸ θράσος … ὁπλίζει ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-560-1 εἰσορᾷς ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-560-2 γυνὴ μὲν ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-560-3 σθένεις δ’ ἔλασσον … χερί ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-561-1 ἀπορρεῖ ⁷⁹³

mvp-comment-561-2 κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-562-1 τοιοῦτον ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-562-2 ἄλυπος ἄτης ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-563-1 κτησώμεθ’ ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-564-1 λύει ⁷⁹⁸ ἡμᾶς ⁷⁹⁹ ἡμῖν ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-564-2 δυσκλεῶς θανεῖν ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-565-1 οὐ γἀρ θανεῖν ⁸⁰² γὰρ ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-566-1 κἀξερημῶσαι γένος ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-567-1 ἄρρητα … κἀτελῆ ⁸⁰⁵ σοι ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-568-1 ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-569-1 The difference between πείθου ⁸⁰⁸ πιθοῦ ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-570-1 καλῶς δ’ ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-571-1 αὐτόχειρί μοι ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-571-2 μόνῃ τε ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-571-3 οὐ γὰρ δὴ ⁸¹³ γε ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-571-4 κενόν ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-572-1 εἴθ’ ὤφελες ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-572-2 πᾶν γὰρ ἂν κατειργάσω ⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-573-1 φύσιν γε ⁸¹⁸ τότε ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-574-1 ὡς οὐχὶ συνδράσουσα ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-574-2 νουθετεῖς ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-575-1 εἰκὸς γὰρ ⁸²² ἐγχειροῦντα ⁸²³ πράσσειν ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-576-1 ζηλῶ ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-577-1 ἀνέξομαι ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-578-1 μὴ πάθῃς τόδε ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-579-1 τὸ κρῖναι ⁸²⁸ μακρὸς ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-579-2 χὡ λοιπὸς χρόνος ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-580-1 μητρὶ … σῇ ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-581-1 οὐδ’ αὖ ⁸³² οὐδ’ ⁸³³

mvp-comment-581-2 ἔχθος ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-582-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν … γ’ ⁸³⁵

mvp-comment-582-2 οἷ … ἀτιμίας ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-583-1 ἀτιμίας μὲν οὔ ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-584-1 τῷ σῷ δικαίῳ ⁸³⁸ δῆτ’ ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-585-1 ἦ δεινὸν ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-585-2 εὖ λέγουσαν ⁸⁴¹ ἐξαμαρτάνειν ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-586-1 ᾧ σὺ πρόσκεισαι κακῷ ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-587-1 τί δ); οὐ δοκῶ σοι ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-588-1 εἰ ποήσεις ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-589-1 καὶ μὴν ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-590-1 βουλεύσει πάλιν ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-591-1 φρονεῖν ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-592-1 ταῦτα ⁸⁴⁹ νεωστί ⁸⁵⁰ ι ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-593-1 τολμᾷς ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-594-1 οὔ σοι μὴ μεθέψομαι ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-595-1 καὶ τὸ θηρᾶσθαι κενά ⁸⁵⁴ καὶ ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-595-2 κενά ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-596-1 ὅταν γὰρ ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-596-2 βεβήκῃς ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-597-1 ἄνωθεν ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-597-2 οἰωνοὺς ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-598-1 ἐσορώμενοι ⁸⁶¹ ἀφ’ ὧν ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-599-1 εὕρωσι ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-599-2 ἐπ’ ἴσας ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-600-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰν ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-601-1 τὰν οὐρανίαν Θέμιν ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-602-1 ἀπόνητοι ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-603-1 χθονία ⁸⁶⁸ βροτοῖσι ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-603-2 φάμα ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-603-3 Some write Φάμα ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-604-1 κατά … βόασον ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-604-2 μοι ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-605-1 Ἀτρείδαις ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-605-2 ἀχόρευτα ⁸⁷⁵ ὀνείδη ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-606-1 νοσεῖ ⁸⁷⁷ δή ⁸⁷⁸

mvp-comment-607-1 τὰ δὲ πρὸς τέκνων ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-607-2 διπλῆ φύλοπις ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-607-3 οὐκέτ’ ἐξισοῦται ⁸⁸¹ φιλοτασίῳ διαίτᾳ ⁸⁸²

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 ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-609-1 Ἠλέκτρα, †τὸν ἀεὶ πατρὸς ⁸⁸⁴

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 ⁸⁸⁵ πατρὸς ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-609-3 Far the best conjecture is Heath's, ἁ παῖς, οἶτον ἀεὶ πατρὸς ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-610-1 πάνδυρτος ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-611-1 οὔτε … τε ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-611-2 τὸ … μὴ βλέπειν ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-612-1 διδύμαν … Ἐρινύν ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-613-1 τίς ἂν εὔπατρις ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-614-1 οὐδεὶς τῶν ἀγαθῶν <γὰρ> ⁸⁹³ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-615-1 ζῶν κακῶς ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-615-2 νώνυμος ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-616-1 πάγκλαυτον αἰῶνα κοινὸν ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-616-2 εἵλου ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-617-1 τὸ μὴ καλὸν καθοπλίσασα ⁸⁹⁹ ἀπολακτίσασα ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-617-2 If καθοπλίσασα ⁹⁰¹

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 ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-618-2 ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-619-1 καθύπερθεν ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-619-2 τεῶν ⁹⁰⁵ τῶν ⁹⁰⁶ τοσόνδ’ ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-620-1 ὑπόχειρ ⁹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-621-1 μοίρᾳ … οὐκ ἐν ἐσθλᾷ βεβῶσαν ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-622-1 μέγιστα … νόμιμα ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-622-2 ἔβλαστε ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-622-3 τῶνδε φερομέναν ἄριστα ⁹¹² τῶνδε ⁹¹³

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 ⁹¹⁴ Διὸς ⁹¹⁵ Ζηνὸς ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-624-1 εἰσηκούσαμεν ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-624-2 ὀρθῶς θ’ ⁹¹⁸ δ’ ⁹¹⁹ θ’ ⁹²⁰ τε ⁹²¹ δέ ⁹²²

mvp-comment-624-3 ἔνθα ⁹²³

mvp-comment-625-1 Αἴγισθον ⁹²⁴ ᾤκηκεν ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-626-1 ἀλλ’ ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-626-2 χὡ φράσας ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-626-3 ἀζήμιος ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-627-1 τίς … φράσειεν ἄν ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-627-2 ποθεινὴν ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-627-3 κοινόπουν ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-628-1 τὸν ἄγχιστον ⁹³²

mvp-comment-629-1 ἴθ’, ὦ γύναι ⁹³³

mvp-comment-630-1 οὐ δή ποθ’ ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-631-1 τὴν σὴν κληδόν’ ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-631-2 Στρόφιος ⁹³⁶

mvp-comment-632-1 φέροντες ⁹³⁷ κομίζομεν ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-633-1 τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-633-2 πρόχειρον ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-633-3 ἄχθος ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-634-1 κέκευθεν ⁹⁴²

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

.

mvp-comment-635-1 δότε ⁹⁴³ ἥτις ἐστί ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-635-2 ἐπαιτεῖται ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-635-3 πρὸς αἵματος ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-635-4 φύσιν ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-636-1 ψυχῆς Ὀρέστου λοιπόν ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-636-2 ἀπ’ ἐλπίδων ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-636-3 Then οὐχ ὧνπερ ⁹⁵⁰

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 ⁹⁵¹ οὐχ ὥσπερ ⁹⁵²

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 ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-637-2 οὐδὲν ὄντα ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-637-3 βαστάζω ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-637-4 λαμπρὸν ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-638-1 ὡς ὤφελον ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-638-2 The v.l. ὤφελες ⁹⁵⁸ κλέψασα ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-638-3 τοῖνδε ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-638-4 κἀνασώσασθαι ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-638-5 φόνου ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-639-1 ὅπως … ἔκεισο ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-639-2 τύμβου πατρῴου ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-640-1 φυγὰς ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-641-2 φίλαισι ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-642-1 λουτροῖς σ’ ἐκόσμης’ ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-643-1 ἄθλιον βάρος ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-644-1 ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-644-2 σμικρὸς … ὄγκος ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-645-1 τῆς ἐμῆς … τρ. ἀνωφελήτου ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-645-2 παρέσχον ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-646-1 ἢ κἀμοῦ ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-646-2 μητρὸς … φίλος ⁹⁷⁵

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 ⁹⁷⁶ ἦσαν ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-647-2 ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τροφός ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-648-1 ἀδελφὴ σοὶ ⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-648-2 προσηυδώμην ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-649-1 ἐκλέλοιπε ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-649-2 θανόντι ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-649-3 συναρπάσας ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-649-4 θύελλ’ ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-650-1 τέθνηκ’ ἐγὼ σοί ⁹⁸⁵ σοί ⁹⁸⁶ τέθνηκ’ ἐγώ σοι ⁹⁸⁷

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 ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-651-1 μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-651-2 ἧς ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-651-3 1160—

mvp-comment-652-1 οἴμοι μοί ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-653-1 κελεύθους ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-653-2 ἀπώλεσας ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-653-3 δῆτ’ ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-654-1 τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μ’ ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-654-2 τὴν μηδὲν ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-654-3 τὸ μηδὲν ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-655-1 μετεῖχον τῶν ἴσων ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-655-2 μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-656-1 τοὺς ¹⁰⁰⁰ θανόντας ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-657-1 θνητοῦ ¹⁰⁰² θνητὸς ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-657-2 φρόνει ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-658-1 πᾶσιν γὰρ ἡμῖν ¹⁰⁰⁵ τοῦτ’ ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-659-1 φεῦ φεῦ, τί λέξω ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-659-2 λόγων ¹⁰⁰⁸ ποῖ ¹⁰⁰⁹ ἀμηχανῶν ¹⁰¹⁰

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 ¹⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-661-1 κλεινὸν ¹⁰¹²

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’ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-663-1 ταλαίνης ¹⁰¹⁴ συμφορᾶς ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-664-1 οὐ ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-665-1 ἀτίμως ¹⁰¹⁷ κἀθέως ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-666-1 ἢ )μὲ ¹⁰¹⁹

mvp-comment-666-2 δυσφημεῖς ¹⁰²⁰ ἄλλην ¹⁰²¹ ξένε ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-667-1 ἀνύμφου ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-667-2 τροφῆς ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-668-1 τί δή ποτ’ ¹⁰²⁵ μοι ¹⁰²⁶ ἐπισκοπῶν ¹⁰²⁷ τί ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-669-1 ἐν τῷ … τῶν εἰρημένων ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-670-1 ὁρῶν σὲ ¹⁰³⁰ σὲ ¹⁰³¹ σε ¹⁰³² τῶν ἐμῶν ¹⁰³³ σέ ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-670-2 ἐμπρέπουσαν ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-671-1 πόθεν ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-672-1 εἶτα ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-672-2 δουλεύω ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-673-1 ἀνάγκῃ … προτρέπει ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-674-1 ἐξισοῖ ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-675-1 χερσὶν ¹⁰⁴¹ λύμη βίου ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-676-1 οὑπαρήξων ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-677-1 προὔθηκας ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-678-1 ποτέ ¹⁰⁴⁵ ἐμέ ¹⁰⁴⁶ νύν μ’ ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-679-1 τοῖσι σοῖς ¹⁰⁴⁸ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-679-2 The word ξυγγενὴς ¹⁰⁵⁰ τοῖσι σοῖς ¹⁰⁵¹ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-680-1 τὸ τῶνδε ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-681-1 νυν ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-682-1 πιθοῦ ¹⁰⁵⁵ πείθου ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-683-1 πρὸς γενείου ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-683-2 The reading of the MSS., μ<*> )ξέλη ¹⁰⁵⁸ μ’ ἐξέλῃ ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-683-3 ἐξέλῃ ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-683-4 τὰ φίλτατα ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-684-1 οὐ φήμ’ ἐάσειν ¹⁰⁶²

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 ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-685-1 εἰ στερήσομαι ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-686-1 ὦ φίλτατον φῶς ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-687-1 ὦ φθέγμ’ ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-687-2 μηκέτ’ ἄλλοθεν πύθῃ ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-688-1 ἔχω … ἔχοις ἀεί ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-689-1 πολίτιδες ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-690-1 μηχαναῖσι ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-690-2 σεσωσμένον ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-691-1 συμφοραῖσι ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-691-2 γεγηθὸς … δάκρυον ¹⁰⁷³

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 ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-694-1 ἀρτίως ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-694-2 οὓς ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-694-3 ἐχρήζετε ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-695-1 σῖγ’ ἔχουσα ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-696-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ μὰ ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-696-2 τὴν ἄδμητον ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-696-3 Ἄρτεμιν ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-697-1 τόδε μὲν … ὂν ἀεί ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-697-2 περισσὸν ἄχθος ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-697-3 ἔνδον … ὂν ἀεί ¹⁰⁸⁴

mvp-comment-698-1 γε μὲν δὴ ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-698-2 Ἄρης ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-698-3 εὖ δ’ ἔξοισθα ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀνέφελον … κακόν ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-699-2 The author of the scholium on 1245 read ἐνέβαλες ¹⁰⁸⁹ ἐπέβαλες ¹⁰⁹⁰ ὑπέβαλες ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-699-3 καταλύσιμον ¹⁰⁹²

mvp-comment-699-4 λησόμενον ¹⁰⁹³

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’ ¹⁰⁹⁴ καὶ ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-700-2 παρουσία ¹⁰⁹⁶ φράζῃ ¹⁰⁹⁷ ἔργων τῶνδε ¹⁰⁹⁸

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 ¹⁰⁹⁹ φράζῃ ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-701-1 ὁ πᾶς … χρόνος ¹¹⁰¹ παρὼν ¹¹⁰² δίκᾳ ¹¹⁰³ ἐννέπειν ¹¹⁰⁴ πρέποι ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-701-2 μόλις γὰρ ¹¹⁰⁶ ἔσχον ¹¹⁰⁷