Sophocles Electra 265

mvp-comment-241-1 συγγνώμην ¹

mvp-comment-242-1 τἄπη ²

mvp-comment-242-2 πρὸς κακῶν ³

mvp-comment-243-1 μή πω ⁴

mvp-comment-244-1 οἷπερ … ὁδοῦ ⁵

mvp-comment-245-1 τῷ φέρεις ⁶

mvp-comment-245-2 ἔμπυρα ⁷

mvp-comment-246-1 τυμβεῦσαι χοάς ⁸

mvp-comment-247-1 βροτῶν ⁹

mvp-comment-248-1 ὃν ἔκταν’ αὐτή ¹⁰ ὅν γ’ ¹¹

mvp-comment-249-1 τῷ τοῦτ’ ἤρεσεν ¹²

mvp-comment-250-1 δείματος ¹³

mvp-comment-250-2 δοκεῖν ἐμοί ¹⁴

mvp-comment-251-1 θεοὶ πατρῷοι ¹⁵

mvp-comment-251-2 συγγένεσθέ γ’ ¹⁶

mvp-comment-251-3 ἀλλὰ νῦν ¹⁷

mvp-comment-252-1 εἴποιμ’ ἂν τότε ¹⁸

mvp-comment-253-1 ἐπὶ σμικρὸν ¹⁹ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν ²⁰

mvp-comment-253-2 φράσαι ²¹

mvp-comment-254-1 σμικροὶ λόγοι ²²

mvp-comment-255-1 πατρὸς … δευτέραν ὁμιλίαν ²³

mvp-comment-255-2 ἐφέστιον πῆξαι ²⁴

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 ²⁵

mvp-comment-256-1 ἔκ τε ²⁶ ἐκ δὲ ²⁷

mvp-comment-256-2 βρύοντα ²⁸

mvp-comment-256-3 ᾧ … γενέσθαι ²⁹

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 ³⁰ τοῦ ³¹ παρόντος ³² του ³³

mvp-comment-257-2 Ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὖναρ ³⁴

mvp-comment-258-1 οὐ κάτοιδα, πλὴν ³⁵

mvp-comment-258-2 πέμπει με κείνη ³⁶

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 ³⁷

mvp-comment-260-1 ἀβουλίᾳ ³⁸

mvp-comment-260-2 σὺν κακῷ ³⁹

mvp-comment-260-3 μέτει ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-261-1 ἀλλ’ ⁴¹

mvp-comment-261-2 ὦ φίλη ⁴² τούτων μὲν ⁴³

mvp-comment-262-1 οὐ … θέμις ⁴⁴ οὐδ’ ὅσιον ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-262-2 ἐχθρᾶς ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-262-3 κτερίσματ’ ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-262-4 λουτρὰ ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-263-1 ἀλλ’ ἢ πνοαῖσιν ⁴⁹ ῥοαῖσιν ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-263-2 κρύψον ⁵¹

mvp-comment-263-3 νιν ⁵²

mvp-comment-263-4 ἔνθα μή ποτ’ ⁵³ ἔνθεν ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-263-5 εὐνὴν ⁵⁵

mvp-comment-264-1 ἀλλ’ ὅταν θάῃν ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-264-2 The conjecture ἔστ’ ἂν ⁵⁷ ὅταν ⁵⁸ σῳζέσθω ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-264-3 κειμήλἰ ⁶⁰

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀρχὴν ⁶¹ τλημονεστάτη ⁶²

mvp-comment-266-1 ἔβλαστε ⁶³

mvp-comment-267-1 ὅν γ’ … τῷδ’ ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-267-2 ἐπέστεφε ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-267-3 442 f. The position of αὐτῇ ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-267-4 δέξεσθαι ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-267-5 It seems, then, a reasonable inference that here, where the reference is to future time, he would have written δέξεσθαι ⁶⁸ δέξασθαι ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-267-6 444 ff. Join θανὼν ἄτιμος ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-267-7 ἐμασχαλίσθη ⁷¹

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 ⁷²

mvp-comment-267-10 ἐξέμαξ ν ⁷³

mvp-comment-267-11 ἆρα μὴ ⁷⁴

mvp-comment-268-1 οὐκ ἔστιν ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-268-2 ταῦτα μὲν μέθες· σὺ δὲ ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-269-1 βοστρύχων ἄκρας φόβας ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-269-2 κἀμοῦ ταλαίνης ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-270-1 †ἀλιπαρῆ ⁷⁹ λιπαρῆ ⁸⁰

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

may conceal some corruption: ought possibly to be τήνδε τ’ ⁸¹ ἀλίπαρον ⁸²

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 ⁸³

mvp-comment-271-2 χλιδαῖς ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-272-1 προσπίτνουσα ⁸⁵ αὐτὸν ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-273-1 ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χερός ⁸⁷

mvp-comment-273-2 ζῶντ’ ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-274-1 ἀφνεωτέραις ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-274-2 στέφωμεν ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-274-3 δωρούμεθα ⁹¹

mvp-comment-275-1 οἶμαι μὲν οὖν ⁹²

mvp-comment-275-2 If μέλον ⁹³ μέλειν ⁹⁴ μέλον ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-276-1 σοί ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-277-1 βροτῶν ⁹⁷

mvp-comment-278-1 πρὸς εὐσέβειαν ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-279-1 δράσω ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-279-2 τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον ¹⁰⁰

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 ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-280-1 παρ’ ὑμῶν ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-281-1 πικρὰν ¹⁰³ δοκῶ με … τολμήσειν ¹⁰⁴ ἔτι ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-282-1 εἰ μὴ )γὼ ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-282-2 γνώμας λειπομένα ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-283-1 ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-283-2 δίκαια φερομένα χεροῖν κράτη ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-284-1 μέτεισιν ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-284-2 οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-285-1 ὕπεστί μοι θράσος ¹¹² κλύουσαν ¹¹³

mvp-comment-285-2 ἁδυπνόων … ὀνειράτων ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-286-1 ἀμναστεῖ γ’ ὁ φύσας ς’ ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-287-1 χαλκόπλακτος ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-287-2 γένυς ¹¹⁷

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 ¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-289-1 καὶ πολύπους καὶ πολύχειρ ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-290-1 λόχοις ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-290-2 χαλκόπους ¹²¹

mvp-comment-291-1 ἄλεκτρ’ ἄνυμφα ¹²²

mvp-comment-291-2 γάμων ἁμιλλήμαθ’ ¹²³

mvp-comment-291-3 ἐπέβα ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-292-1 πρὸ τῶνδέ τοι … συνδρῶσιν ¹²⁵

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 ¹²⁶

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 ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-293-1 ἀψεγές ¹²⁸ ἀψεφές ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-293-2 πελᾶν ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-294-1 τοῖς δρῶσι ¹³¹ τοῖς συνδρῶσιν ¹³²

mvp-comment-295-1 μαντεῖαι βροτῶν ¹³³

mvp-comment-296-1 εὖ κατασχήσει ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-297-1 ἱππεία ¹³⁵

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 ¹³⁶

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 ¹³⁷

mvp-comment-299-2 ὁ ποντισθεὶς Μυρτίλος ¹³⁸

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 ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-300-1 παγχρυσέων δίφρων ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-301-1 πρόρριζος ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-301-2 ἐκριφθείς ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-302-1 ἔλειπεν ¹⁴³ ἔλιπεν ¹⁴⁴ οἴκου ¹⁴⁵ οἴκους ¹⁴⁶ πω ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-303-1 πολύπονος ¹⁴⁸ αἰκία ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-304-1 ἀνειμένη ¹⁵⁰ μέν ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-304-2 ὡς ἔοικας ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-304-3 στρέφει ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-304-4 Clytaemnestra begins in the same strain as Chrysothemis, who likewise emphasised her reproof by the word αὖ ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-305-1 μή τοι θυραίαν γ’ ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-305-2 αἰσχύνειν φίλους ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-306-1 καίτοι ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-306-2 δὴ ¹⁵⁸ πολλούς ¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-306-3 ἐξεῖπάς με … ὡς ¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-306-4 θρασεῖα ¹⁶¹ τραχεῖα ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-306-5 ἄρχω ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-307-1 ὕβριν … οὐκ ἔχω ¹⁶⁴ κακῶς κλύουσα ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-308-1 πατὴρ γάρ ¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-308-2 πρόσχημα ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-309-1 ἡ γὰρ Δίκη ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-310-1 ᾗ χρῆν σ’ ἀρήγειν ¹⁶⁹

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 ¹⁷⁰ Ἑλλήνων ¹⁷¹

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 ¹⁷²

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 ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-315-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντ’ ἀδελφοῦ δῆτα ¹⁷⁴ κτανὼν ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-315-2 ἀντὶ ἀδελφοῦ ¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-315-3 τἄμ’ ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-316-1 παῖδες … διπλοῖ ¹⁷⁸

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

.

mvp-comment-317-1 ἢ ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-317-2 ἢ τῶν ἐμῶν Ἅιδης ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-318-1 δαίσασθαι ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-318-2 The conj. λῄσασθαι ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-319-1 πανώλει ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-319-2 παρεῖτο ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-319-3 The sense does not absolutely require us to take Μενέλεω δ’ ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-320-1 ἀβούλου ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-320-2 κακοῦ γνώμην ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-321-1 δοκῶ μέν ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-321-2 εἰ καὶ ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-322-1 εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-323-1 τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-324-1 γνώμην δικαίαν σχοῦσα ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-325-1 ἐρεῖς μὲν οὐχὶ ¹⁹³ ἐρεῖς ¹⁹⁴ ἐρεῖς … μ’ ὡς ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-325-2 ἄρξασά τι λυπηρὸν ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-325-3 τάδ’ ἐξήκους’ ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-326-1 τοῦ τεθνηκότος θ’ ὕπερ ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-327-1 καὶ μὴν ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-327-2 λόγους ἐξῆρχές με ²⁰⁰

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 ²⁰¹ πατέρα ²⁰² φὴς ²⁰³

mvp-comment-329-1 εἴτ’ οὖν … εἴτε ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-329-2 λέξω ²⁰⁵ δείξω ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-330-1 ὡς οὐ δίκῃ γ’ ²⁰⁷ ἔσπασεν ²⁰⁸ πειθὼ ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-331-1 κυναγὸν ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-331-2 ποινὰς ²¹¹

mvp-comment-331-3 τὰ πολλὰ πνεύματ’ ἔσχ’ ²¹² τὰ πολλὰ ²¹³ ἔσχε ²¹⁴

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 ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-331-8 Αὐλίδι ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-332-1 ἢ )γὼ φράσω ²¹⁷ κείνης ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-333-1 ὡς ἐγὼ κλύω ²¹⁹

mvp-comment-333-2 θεᾶς … κατ’ ἄλσος ²²⁰

mvp-comment-333-3 παίζων ²²¹

mvp-comment-333-4 ποδοῖν ²²²

mvp-comment-334-1 ἔλαφον ²²³

mvp-comment-334-2 στικτὸν ²²⁴

mvp-comment-334-3 κεράστην ²²⁵

mvp-comment-334-4 οὗ κατὰ σφαγὰς ²²⁶

mvp-comment-335-1 ἐκκομπάσας ἔπος τι τυγχάνει ²²⁷ βαλών ²²⁸

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 ²²⁹ ἔπος ²³⁰

mvp-comment-335-4 Monk, with Musgrave, took σφαγὰς ²³¹

mvp-comment-336-1 ἐκ τοῦδε ²³²

mvp-comment-336-2 μηνίσασα ²³³

mvp-comment-336-3 Λητῴα κόρη ²³⁴

mvp-comment-337-1 ὡς ²³⁵ ἀντίσταθμον ²³⁶

mvp-comment-337-2 ἐκθύσειε ²³⁷

mvp-comment-338-1 ὧδ’ ἦν ²³⁸

mvp-comment-338-2 τὰ … θύματ’ ²³⁹

mvp-comment-338-3 λύσις ²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-338-4 πρὸς οἶκον ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-339-1 πολλὰ ²⁴²

mvp-comment-339-2 ἀντιβὰς ²⁴³

mvp-comment-339-3 μόλις ²⁴⁴

mvp-comment-340-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-340-2 ἐρῶ γὰρ καὶ τὸ σόν ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-341-1 τούτου … οὕνεκ’ ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-341-2 νόμῳ ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-342-1 ὅρα ²⁴⁹ μὴ … τιθῇς ²⁵⁰ τίθης ²⁵¹

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 ²⁵²

mvp-comment-343-1 εἰ γὰρ κτενοῦμεν ²⁵³

mvp-comment-343-2 πρώτη ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-344-1 εἰσόρα ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-344-2 οὐκ οὖσαν ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-344-3 τίθης ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-344-4 εἰ … θέλεις ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-345-1 τῷ παλαμναίῳ ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-345-2 πρόσθεν ἐξαπώλεσας ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-346-1 παιδοποιεῖς ²⁶¹

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 ²⁶²

mvp-comment-346-4 κἀξ εὐσεβῶν ²⁶³

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 ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-346-7 ἐκβαλοῦσ’ ἔχεις ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-347-1 πῶς ταῦτ’ ἐπαινέσαιμ’ ἄν ²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-347-2 ἢ ²⁶⁷ ἦ ²⁶⁸ καὶ τοῦτ’ ²⁶⁹ ἄποινα ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-348-1 αἰσχρῶς δ’ ²⁷¹ δ’ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐάν περ καὶ λέγῃς ²⁷³

mvp-comment-348-3 ἐχθροῖς γαμεῖσθαι ²⁷⁴

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 ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-349-2 πᾶσαν ἵης γλῶσσαν ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-350-1 κακοστομοῦμεν ²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-350-2 καί σ’ ἔγωγε δεσπότιν ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-350-3 εἰς ἡμᾶς ²⁷⁹ ἣ ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-351-1 βίον μοχθηρόν ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-351-2 ἔκ τε σοῦ ²⁸² κακοῖς … ξυνοῦσα ²⁸³

mvp-comment-351-3 συννόμου ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-352-1 ὁ δ’ ἄλλος ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-352-2 χεῖρα σὴν ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-352-3 τρίβει βίον ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-352-4 603 The reason for writing δή με σοὶ ²⁸⁸ δή μέ σοι ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-352-5 μιάστορα ²⁹⁰

mvp-comment-353-1 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκα ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-354-1 εἰς ἅπαντας ²⁹²

mvp-comment-354-2 χρῇς ²⁹³

mvp-comment-354-3 στόμαργον ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-355-1 τῶνδε τῶν ἔ|ργων ἴδρις ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-355-2 σχεδόν τι ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-355-3 οὐ καταισχύνω ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-356-1 ὁρῶ μένος πνέουσαν ²⁹⁸ μένος πνέουσαν ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-356-2 σὺν δίκῃ ξύνεστι ³⁰⁰

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 ³⁰¹ ἐμοὶ ³⁰² μοι ³⁰³ δεῖ ³⁰⁴

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 ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-358-2 τηλικοῦτος ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-358-3 ἆρα ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-358-4 χωρεῖν ἂν ³⁰⁸ εἰς πᾶν ἔργον ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-359-1 εὖ νυν ἐπίστω ³¹⁰

mvp-comment-359-2 ἔξωρα ³¹¹

mvp-comment-359-3 προσεικότα ³¹²

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀλλὰ … γὰρ ³¹³

mvp-comment-360-2 ἡ … ἐκ σοῦ δυσμένεια ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-360-3 ἐξαναγκάζει ³¹⁵ αἰσχροῖς ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-360-4 622 f. The word θρέμμα ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-360-5 ἦ σ’ ἐγὼ ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-361-1 νιν ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-361-2 εὑρίσκεται ³²⁰

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 ³²¹

mvp-comment-362-2 δέσποιναν ³²²

mvp-comment-362-3 Ἄρτεμιν ³²³

mvp-comment-362-4 θράσους τοῦδ’ οὐκ ἀλύξεις ³²⁴ μόλῃ ³²⁵

mvp-comment-363-1 ὁρᾷς ³²⁶

mvp-comment-363-2 ἐκφέρει ³²⁷

mvp-comment-363-3 The v. l. παρεῖσα ³²⁸

mvp-comment-364-1 οὐδὲ ³²⁹

mvp-comment-364-2 ὑπ’ εὐφήμου βοῆς ³³⁰

mvp-comment-364-3 ἐπειδὴ σοί γ’ ³³¹

mvp-comment-364-4 πᾶν λέγειν ³³²

mvp-comment-365-1 κελεύω ³³³

mvp-comment-365-2 τοὐμὸν στόμ’ ³³⁴

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 ³³⁵

mvp-comment-365-4 ἡ παροῦσά μοι ³³⁶

mvp-comment-365-5 θύματα … πάγκαρπα ³³⁷

mvp-comment-366-1 λυτηρίους … δειμάτων ³³⁸

mvp-comment-366-2 ἀνάσχω ³³⁹

mvp-comment-367-1 κλύοις ἂν ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-367-2 προστατήριε ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-368-1 κεκρυμμένην ³⁴²

mvp-comment-368-2 οὐ γὰρ ἐν φίλοις ³⁴³

mvp-comment-369-1 πρὸς φῶς ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-370-1 πολυγλώσσῳ ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-370-2 σπείρῃ ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-370-3 ματαίαν ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-371-1 ὧδ’ ³⁴⁸

mvp-comment-372-1 γὰρ ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-372-2 δισσῶν ὀνείρων ³⁵⁰

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 ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-373-1 ἐσθλά … ἐχθρά ³⁵²

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 ³⁵³

mvp-comment-374-1 εἴ τινες ³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-375-1 ἀλλ’ ὧδε ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-375-2 ἀβλαβεῖ βίῳ ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-376-1 δόμους ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-376-2 ἀμφέπειν ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-376-3 φίλοισι ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-377-1 εὐημεροῦσαν ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-377-2 καὶ τέκνων ³⁶¹ ὅσων ³⁶²

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 ³⁶³

mvp-comment-378-1 πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντα ³⁶⁵

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 ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-380-1 ἦ καὶ ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-380-2 ἐπεικάζων κυρῶ ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-380-3 πρέπ<*> γὰρ ³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-381-1 μάλιστα πάντων ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-381-2 ἥδε σοι κείνη πάρα ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-381-3 666 f. The ὦ ³⁷² χαῖρε ³⁷³

mvp-comment-382-1 ἐδεξάμην τὸ ῥηθέν ³⁷⁴

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 ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-383-1 Φανοτεὺς ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-383-2 πρᾶγμα πορσύνων μέγα ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-384-1 τὸ ποῖον ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-385-1 ἐν βραχεῖ ξυνθεὶς ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-386-1 τί φής, τί φής ³⁸⁰ ξεῖνε ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-386-2 ταύτης ³⁸²

mvp-comment-387-1 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ³⁸³

mvp-comment-388-1 οὐδέν εἰμ’ ἔτι ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-389-1 τὰ σαυτῆς πρᾶσς’ ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-389-2 διόλλυται ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-390-1 κἀπεμπόμην ³⁸⁷ καὶ … φράσω ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-391-1 γὰρ ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-392-1 πρόσχημ’ ἀγῶνος ³⁹⁰ Ἑλλάδος ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-392-2 πρόσχημα ³⁹²

mvp-comment-392-3 Δελφ. ἄθλων ³⁹³

mvp-comment-393-1 ὀρθίων ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-393-2 δρόμον … οὗ πρώτη κρίσις ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-394-1 εἰσῆλθε ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-395-1 ἰσώσας * τἀφέσει ³⁹⁷ τῇ φύσει ³⁹⁸

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 ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-396-1 νίκης … γέρας ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-397-1 χὥπως μὲν ⁴⁰¹

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 ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-398-2 εἰσεκήρυξαν ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-398-3 βραβῆς ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-399-1 δρομων διαύλων ⁴⁰⁵

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

in 692 to .

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐνεγκὼν ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-400-2 τἀπινίκια ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-401-1 ὠλβίζετ’ ⁴⁰⁸ ἀνακαλ ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-401-2 Ἀγαμέμνονος ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-401-3 ἀγείραντος ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-402-1 καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τοιαῦθ’ ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-402-2 βλάπτῃ ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-402-3 ἰσχύων ⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-403-1 ἄλλης ἡμέρας ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-403-2 ἱππικῶν ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-404-1 ἡλίου τέλλοντος ⁴¹⁷

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 ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-406-1 Λίβυες ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-406-2 ζυγωτῶν ⁴²⁰ ἐπιστάται ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-407-1 κἀκεῖνος ⁴²²

mvp-comment-407-2 ἐν τούτοισι ⁴²³ ἐπὶ ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-407-3 Θεσσαλὰς … ἵππους ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-408-1 ξανθαῖσι ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-408-2 πώλοις ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-408-3 Μάγνης ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-409-1 λεύκιππος ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-409-2 Αἰνιὰν ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-410-1 τῶν θεοδμήτων ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-411-1 ἄλλος ⁴³² ἐκπληρῶν ⁴³³

mvp-comment-412-1 στάντες ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-412-2 †ὅθ’ αὐτοὺς ⁴³⁵ ὅθ’ ⁴³⁶ ἵν’ ⁴³⁷ ὅτ’ ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-412-3 βραβῆς ⁴³⁹ οἱ τεταγμένοι ⁴⁴⁰

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 ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-413-1 χαλκῆς ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-413-2 ὑπαὶ ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-413-3 οἱ δ’ ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-414-1 ὁμοκλήσαντες ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-415-1 ἐν δὲ ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-415-2 κροτητῶν ⁴⁴⁷

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’ ⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-417-1 κέντρων ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-417-2 ὡς ὑπερβάλοι ⁴⁵⁰ τις ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-417-3 χνόας ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-417-4 φρυάγμαθ’ ἱππικά ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-418-1 ὁμοῦ γὰρ ἀμφὶ νῶτα ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-418-2 τροχῶν βάσεις ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-418-3 εἰσέβαλλον ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-419-1 ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-419-2 ἐσχάτην στήλην ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-420-1 ἔχριμπτ’ ἀεὶ σύριγγα ⁴⁵⁹ ἔχριμπτ’ ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-420-2 δεξιὸν δ’ ἀνεὶς κ.τ.λ. ⁴⁶¹

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 ⁴⁶² ἔπειτα δ’ ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-421-2 ἕστασαν ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-422-1 ἄστομοι ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-422-2 βίᾳ φέρουσιν ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-422-3 ἐκ δ’ ὑποστροφῆς ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-423-1 τελοῦντες κ.τ.λ. ⁴⁶⁸

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 ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-424-1 ἐξ ἑνὸς κακοῦ ⁴⁷⁰ ἔθραυε καὶ ἐνέπιπτε ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-424-2 ναυαγίων ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-424-3 Κρισαῖον … πέδον ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-425-1 γνοὺς δ’ ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-425-2 κἀνοκωχεύει ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-425-3 κλύδων’ ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔσχατος μὲν ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-426-2 ὑστέρας ἔχων ⁴⁷⁸ φέρων ⁴⁷⁹ πίστιν φέρων ⁴⁸⁰

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 ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-428-1 ἐνσείσας. ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-429-1 κἀξισώσαντε ζυγὰ ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-429-2 τότ’ … ἄλλοθ’ ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-429-3 ἄλλος … ἅτερος ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-429-4 κάρα προβάλλων ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-429-5 For προβάλλων ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-430-1 τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους πάντας ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-430-2 ἀσφαλεῖς ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-430-3 ὠρθοῦθ’ ⁴⁹⁰ ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δί‐ ⁴⁹¹ φρων ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-431-1 λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-432-1 χνόας ⁴⁹⁴ μέσας ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-433-1 ἀντύγων ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-433-2 σὺν δ’ ἑλίσσεται ⁴⁹⁷ τμητοῖς ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-434-1 διεσπάρησαν εἰς μέσον δρόμον ⁴⁹⁹

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

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

mvp-comment-435-1 στρατὸς ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-435-2 δίφρων ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-435-3 ἀνωλόλυξε ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-435-4 οἷ’ … οἷα ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-436-1 φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-436-2 ἄλλοτ’ ⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-436-3 οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-437-1 διφρηλάται ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-437-2 κατασχεθόντες ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-438-1 κέαντες ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-438-2 ἐν βραχεῖ χαλκῷ ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-438-3 μέγιστον ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-438-4 σῶμα … σποδοῦ ⁵¹²

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 ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-439-2 ἐκλάχῃ ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-440-1 τοιαῦτά σοι ⁵¹⁵ ταῦτ’ ἐστίν ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-440-2 ὡς μὲν ἐν λόγῳ ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-440-3 τοῖς δ’ ἰδ., οἵπερ εἴδομεν ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-440-4 764 f. The word δεσπόταισι ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-440-5 πρόρριζον ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ Ζεῦ ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-441-2 λέγω ⁵²²

mvp-comment-442-1 τῷ νῦν λόγῳ ⁵²³

mvp-comment-443-1 δεινὸν ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-443-2 πάσχοντι ⁵²⁵ ὧν τέκῃ ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-444-1 μάτην ἄρ’ ἡμεῖς κ.τ.λ. ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-445-1 μάτην λέγοις ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-446-1 ψυχῆς ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-447-1 μαστῶν κ.τ.λ. ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-447-2 ἀποστὰς ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-447-3 ἀπεξενοῦτο ⁵³²

mvp-comment-448-1 φόνους ⁵³³

mvp-comment-449-1 ὥστ’ οὔτε … στεγάζειν ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-449-2 ἐξ ἡμέρας ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-449-3 στεψάζειν ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-449-4 ὁ προστατῶν χρόνος ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-449-5 διῆγε ⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-449-6 783 f. The perf. ἀπήλλαγμαι ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-449-7 μείζων ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-450-1 τοὐμὸν ⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-450-2 ἐκπίνους’ ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-450-3 ἄκρατον ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-450-4 νῦν δ’ ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-450-5 ἕκηλα ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-450-6 οὕνεχ’ ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-450-7 ἡμερεύσομεν ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-451-1 οἴμοι τάλαινα ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-451-2 οἰμῶξαι ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-452-1 ἆρ’ ἔχει καλῶς ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-453-1 οὔτοι σὺ ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-454-1 Νέμεσι ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-454-2 τοῦ θανόντος ἀρτίως ⁵⁵³

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 ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-455-2 κἀπεκύρωσεν ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-456-1 οὔκουν … τάδε ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-457-1 οὐχ ὅπως σε παύσομεν ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-458-1 πολλῶν ἂν ἥκοις ⁵⁵⁸ ἔπαυσας ⁵⁵⁹ παύσαις ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-458-2 πολλῶν ⁵⁶¹ ἄξιος ⁵⁶² τυχεῖν ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-459-1 εὖ κυρεῖ ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-459-2 800 f. With πράξειας ⁵⁶⁵

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

seem, then, superfluous. The change of καταξίως ⁵⁶⁶ πράξειας ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-459-4 τοῦ πορεύς. ξένου ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-460-1 τῶν φίλων ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-461-1 ἆρ’ ὑμὶν ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-461-2 ὧδ’ ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-462-1 ὥς μ’ ἀπώλεσας θανών ⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-463-1 ἀποσπάσας ⁵⁷³ αἵ ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-464-1 μολεῖν ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-465-1 δουλεύειν ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-465-2 πάλιν ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-466-1 ἆρά μοι καλῶς ἔχει ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-467-1 τοῦ λοιποῦ χρόνου ⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-467-2 818 *

, Hermann's correction of , is made certain by . No dative is needed to explain ξύνοικος ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-468-1 παρεῖσ’ ἐμαυτὴν ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-468-2 αὐανῶ ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-469-1 χάρις ⁵⁸³

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 ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-470-4 φαέθων ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-470-5 ἐφορῶντες ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-470-6 κρύπτουσιν ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-471-1 τί δακρύεις ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-472-1 μηδὲν μέγ’ ἀΰσῃς ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-472-2 ἀΰσῃς ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-473-1 ἀπολεῖς ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-474-1 τῶν … οἰχομένων ⁵⁹² φανερῶς ⁵⁹³ ἐλπίδα ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-475-1 κατ’ ἐμοῦ τακομένας ⁵⁹⁵ ἐπεμβάσει ⁵⁹⁶ κατ’ ἐμοὶ τακομένᾳ ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-476-1 οἶδα γὰρ ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-476-2 Ἀμφιάρεων ⁵⁹⁹ ἄνακτα ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-477-1 χρυσοδέτοις ἕρκεσι ⁶⁰¹ γυναικῶν ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-477-2 κρυφθέντα ⁶⁰³

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 ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-479-1 πάμψυχος ⁶⁰⁵

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 ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-480-2 φεῦ δῆτ’ ⁶⁰⁷ ὀλοὰ γὰρ ⁶⁰⁸ ἐδάμη ⁶⁰⁹ ὀλοὰ ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-480-3 ἐδάμη ⁶¹¹ ναί ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-481-1 μελέτωρ ⁶¹³

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 ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-483-1 ἀναρπασθείς ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-484-1 δειλαία δειλαίων ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-485-1 ἴστωρ ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-486-1 πανσύρτῳ … αἰῶνι ⁶¹⁸ αἰῶνι ⁶¹⁹

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 ⁶²⁰

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 ⁶²¹ ἃ θροεῖς ⁶²² ἃ θρηνεῖς ⁶²³

mvp-comment-488-1 μή μέ νυν ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-488-2 παραγάγῃς ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-488-3 ἵν’ ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-489-1 τί φής ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-490-1 πάρεισιν ἐλπίδων ἔτι ⁶²⁸

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 ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-492-1 χαλαργοῖς ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-493-1 τμητοῖς ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-494-1 ἄσκοπος ⁶³²

mvp-comment-494-2 ἁ λώβα ⁶³³

mvp-comment-495-1 ξένος ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-496-1 ἄτερ ἐμᾶν χερῶν ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-497-1 κέκευθεν ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-497-2 οὔτε του ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-497-3 ἀντιάσας ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-497-4 τάφου … γόων ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-498-1 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς τοι ⁶⁴⁰ τοι ⁶⁴¹ σοι ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-499-1 τὸ κόσμιον ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-499-2 873 For the place of ὦν ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-500-1 σὺ ⁶⁴⁵ ἴασιν οὐκ ἔνεστ’ ἰδεῖν ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-501-1 ἐναργῶς ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-502-1 ἀλλ’ ἦ ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-502-2 τοῖς ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-503-1 μὰ τὴν πατρῴαν ἑστίαν ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-503-2 ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὕβρει ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-503-3 ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον ⁶⁵² ὡς ⁶⁵³

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

for νῷν ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-504-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁶⁵⁵ τε καί ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-505-1 ἰδοῦσα πίστιν ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-505-2 εἰς τί μοι ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-505-3 ἀνηκέστῳ ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-505-4 πυρί ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-506-1 σὺ δ’ οὖν ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-506-2 τῷ λόγῳ ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-507-1 καὶ δὴ ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-507-2 κατειδόμην ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-508-1 ἀρχαῖον τάφον ⁶⁶⁵

mvp-comment-509-1 κολώνης ἐξ ἄκρας ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-509-2 γάλακτος ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-509-3 περιστεφῆ … ἀνθέων ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-509-4 ἔστιν ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-509-5 θήκην ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-510-1 ἔσχον θαῦμα ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-510-2 ἐγχρίμπτῃ ⁶⁷² ἐγχρίμπτει ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-511-1 ἐν γαλήνῃ ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-512-1 ἐσχάτης … πυρᾶς ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-512-2 νεώρη ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-513-1 ἐμπαίει κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁷⁷ ὄμμα ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-513-2 σύνηθες ⁶⁷⁹ ὁρᾶν ⁶⁸⁰

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 ⁶⁸¹

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 ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-514-1 βαστάσασα ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-514-2 δυσφηυῶ μὲν οὔ ⁶⁸⁴ οὔ ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-515-1 νῦν θ’ ὁμοίως καὶ τότ’ ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-515-2 μή του ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-515-3 ἀγλάϊσμα ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-515-4 911 f. The elliptical πῶς γὰρ ⁶⁸⁹ ᾗ γε ⁶⁹⁰ μηδὲ ⁶⁹¹ πρὸς θεοὺς ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-515-5 ἀκλαύστῳ ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-516-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-517-1 οὔτε δρῶσ’ ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁶⁹⁵

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 ⁶⁹⁶ δρῶσα ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-517-4 If ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁶⁹⁸ ἔληθεν ἄν ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-517-5 915 *

is Dindorf's certain correction of τἀπιτίμια ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-518-1 θάρσυνε ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-518-2 οὐχ αὑτὸς ἀεί ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-519-1 νῷν ἧν ⁷⁰³ δ’ ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-519-2 κῦρος ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-520-1 φεῦ τῆς ἀνοίας ὥς ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-521-1 ὅποι γῆς … φέρει ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-522-1 πῶς δ’ οὐκ ἐγὼ κάτοιδ’ ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-523-1 τἀκείνου … σωτήρια ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-524-1 καὶ ποῦ ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-524-2 ὑπέρχεται ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-525-1 μητρὶ ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-526-1 τὰ πολλὰ ⁷¹³ πρὸς τάφον ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-527-1 μάλιστ’ ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-527-2 μνημεἶ ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-528-1 ὦ δυστυχής ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-528-2 τοιούσδ’ ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-529-1 ἵν’ ἦμεν ἄτης ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-530-1 λύσεις ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-531-1 οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅ γ’ εἶπον ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-532-1 φερέγγυος ⁷²²

mvp-comment-533-1 τλῆναι … δρῶσαν ⁷²³

mvp-comment-534-1 ὠφέλειά γ’ ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-535-1 ὅρα ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-535-2 πόνου … εὐτυχεῖ ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-536-1 ξυνοίσω ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-537-1 ποεῖν ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-538-1 παρουσίαν ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-538-2 καὶ σύ που ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-539-1 λελείμμεθον ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-540-1 θάλλοντ’ ἔτ’ ⁷³² βίῳ ⁷³³

mvp-comment-541-1 πράκτοῤ ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-542-1 εἰς σὲ δὴ βλέπω ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-543-1 κατοκνήσεις ⁷³⁶ κατοκνήσῃς ⁷³⁷

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 ⁷³⁸

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 ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-545-2 βλέψας’ ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-546-1 κτῆσιν ⁷⁴¹ ἐστερημένῃ ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-547-1 ἐς τοσόνδε τοῦ χρόνου ⁷⁴³

mvp-comment-548-1 ἄλεκτρα … ἀνυμέναια ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-548-2 γηράσκουσαν ⁷⁴⁵

mvp-comment-549-1 τῶνδε ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-549-2 ὅπως ⁷⁴⁷

mvp-comment-550-1 ἢ κἀμὸν ⁷⁴⁸ πημονὴν ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-551-1 ἐπίσπῃ ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-552-1 εὐσέβειαν … οἴσει ⁷⁵¹ θανόντος ⁷⁵² κάτω ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-552-2 970 ff. The compound ἐξέφυς ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-552-3 καλεῖ ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-552-4 τὰ χρηστὰ ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-553-1 λόγων γε μὴν εὔκλειαν ⁷⁵⁷ λόγων ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-554-1 ἀστῶν ἢ ξένων ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-554-2 δεξιώσεται ⁷⁶⁰

mvp-comment-555-1 ἴδεσθε ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-556-1 εὖ βεβηκόσιν ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-556-2 ἀφειδήσαντε ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-556-3 προὐστήτην φόνου ⁷⁶⁴ ἐχθροῖς ⁷⁶⁵ φόνου ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-556-4 981 f. For τούτω … τώδε ⁷⁶⁷ ἑορταῖς ⁷⁶⁸ πανδήμῳ πόλει ⁷⁶⁹ τοι ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-557-1 συμπόνει ⁷⁷¹ σύγκαμνε ⁷⁷²

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 ⁷⁷³ ἐμέ ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-557-4 παῦσον ἐκ κακῶν ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-557-5 989 In τοῖς καλῶς πεφυκόσιν ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-558-1 ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ⁷⁷⁷ καὶ κλύοντι ⁷⁷⁸ σύμμαχος ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-558-2 993 For the place of μὴ ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-558-3 ἐσῴζετ’ ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-559-1 ἐμβλέψασα ⁷⁸² θράσος … ὁπλίζει ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-560-1 εἰσορᾷς ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-560-2 γυνὴ μὲν ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-560-3 σθένεις δ’ ἔλασσον … χερί ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-561-1 ἀπορρεῖ ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-561-2 κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-562-1 τοιοῦτον ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-562-2 ἄλυπος ἄτης ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-563-1 κτησώμεθ’ ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-564-1 λύει ⁷⁹² ἡμᾶς ⁷⁹³ ἡμῖν ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-564-2 δυσκλεῶς θανεῖν ⁷⁹⁵

mvp-comment-565-1 οὐ γἀρ θανεῖν ⁷⁹⁶ γὰρ ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-566-1 κἀξερημῶσαι γένος ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-567-1 ἄρρητα … κἀτελῆ ⁷⁹⁹ σοι ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-568-1 ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-569-1 The difference between πείθου ⁸⁰² πιθοῦ ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-570-1 καλῶς δ’ ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-571-1 αὐτόχειρί μοι ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-571-2 μόνῃ τε ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-571-3 οὐ γὰρ δὴ ⁸⁰⁷ γε ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-571-4 κενόν ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-572-1 εἴθ’ ὤφελες ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-572-2 πᾶν γὰρ ἂν κατειργάσω ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-573-1 φύσιν γε ⁸¹² τότε ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-574-1 ὡς οὐχὶ συνδράσουσα ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-574-2 νουθετεῖς ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-575-1 εἰκὸς γὰρ ⁸¹⁶ ἐγχειροῦντα ⁸¹⁷ πράσσειν ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-576-1 ζηλῶ ⁸¹⁹

mvp-comment-577-1 ἀνέξομαι ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-578-1 μὴ πάθῃς τόδε ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-579-1 τὸ κρῖναι ⁸²² μακρὸς ⁸²³

mvp-comment-579-2 χὡ λοιπὸς χρόνος ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-580-1 μητρὶ … σῇ ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-581-1 οὐδ’ αὖ ⁸²⁶ οὐδ’ ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-581-2 ἔχθος ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-582-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν … γ’ ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-582-2 οἷ … ἀτιμίας ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-583-1 ἀτιμίας μὲν οὔ ⁸³¹

mvp-comment-584-1 τῷ σῷ δικαίῳ ⁸³² δῆτ’ ⁸³³

mvp-comment-585-1 ἦ δεινὸν ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-585-2 εὖ λέγουσαν ⁸³⁵ ἐξαμαρτάνειν ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-586-1 ᾧ σὺ πρόσκεισαι κακῷ ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-587-1 τί δ); οὐ δοκῶ σοι ⁸³⁸

mvp-comment-588-1 εἰ ποήσεις ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-589-1 καὶ μὴν ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-590-1 βουλεύσει πάλιν ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-591-1 φρονεῖν ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-592-1 ταῦτα ⁸⁴³ νεωστί ⁸⁴⁴ ι ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-593-1 τολμᾷς ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-594-1 οὔ σοι μὴ μεθέψομαι ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-595-1 καὶ τὸ θηρᾶσθαι κενά ⁸⁴⁸ καὶ ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-595-2 κενά ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-596-1 ὅταν γὰρ ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-596-2 βεβήκῃς ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-597-1 ἄνωθεν ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-597-2 οἰωνοὺς ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-598-1 ἐσορώμενοι ⁸⁵⁵ ἀφ’ ὧν ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-599-1 εὕρωσι ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-599-2 ἐπ’ ἴσας ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-600-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰν ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-601-1 τὰν οὐρανίαν Θέμιν ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-602-1 ἀπόνητοι ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-603-1 χθονία ⁸⁶² βροτοῖσι ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-603-2 φάμα ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-603-3 Some write Φάμα ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-604-1 κατά … βόασον ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-604-2 μοι ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-605-1 Ἀτρείδαις ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-605-2 ἀχόρευτα ⁸⁶⁹ ὀνείδη ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-606-1 νοσεῖ ⁸⁷¹ δή ⁸⁷²

mvp-comment-607-1 τὰ δὲ πρὸς τέκνων ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-607-2 διπλῆ φύλοπις ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-607-3 οὐκέτ’ ἐξισοῦται ⁸⁷⁵ φιλοτασίῳ διαίτᾳ ⁸⁷⁶

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 ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-609-1 Ἠλέκτρα, †τὸν ἀεὶ πατρὸς ⁸⁷⁸

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 ⁸⁷⁹ πατρὸς ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-609-3 Far the best conjecture is Heath's, ἁ παῖς, οἶτον ἀεὶ πατρὸς ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-610-1 πάνδυρτος ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-611-1 οὔτε … τε ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-611-2 τὸ … μὴ βλέπειν ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-612-1 διδύμαν … Ἐρινύν ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-613-1 τίς ἂν εὔπατρις ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-614-1 οὐδεὶς τῶν ἀγαθῶν <γὰρ> ⁸⁸⁷ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ⁸⁸⁸

mvp-comment-615-1 ζῶν κακῶς ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-615-2 νώνυμος ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-616-1 πάγκλαυτον αἰῶνα κοινὸν ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-616-2 εἵλου ⁸⁹²

mvp-comment-617-1 τὸ μὴ καλὸν καθοπλίσασα ⁸⁹³ ἀπολακτίσασα ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-617-2 If καθοπλίσασα ⁸⁹⁵

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 ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-618-2 ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-619-1 καθύπερθεν ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-619-2 τεῶν ⁸⁹⁹ τῶν ⁹⁰⁰ τοσόνδ’ ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-620-1 ὑπόχειρ ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-621-1 μοίρᾳ … οὐκ ἐν ἐσθλᾷ βεβῶσαν ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-622-1 μέγιστα … νόμιμα ⁹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-622-2 ἔβλαστε ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-622-3 τῶνδε φερομέναν ἄριστα ⁹⁰⁶ τῶνδε ⁹⁰⁷

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 ⁹⁰⁸ Διὸς ⁹⁰⁹ Ζηνὸς ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-624-1 εἰσηκούσαμεν ⁹¹¹

mvp-comment-624-2 ὀρθῶς θ’ ⁹¹² δ’ ⁹¹³ θ’ ⁹¹⁴ τε ⁹¹⁵ δέ ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-624-3 ἔνθα ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-625-1 Αἴγισθον ⁹¹⁸ ᾤκηκεν ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-626-1 ἀλλ’ ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-626-2 χὡ φράσας ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-626-3 ἀζήμιος ⁹²²

mvp-comment-627-1 τίς … φράσειεν ἄν ⁹²³

mvp-comment-627-2 ποθεινὴν ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-627-3 κοινόπουν ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-628-1 τὸν ἄγχιστον ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-629-1 ἴθ’, ὦ γύναι ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-630-1 οὐ δή ποθ’ ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-631-1 τὴν σὴν κληδόν’ ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-631-2 Στρόφιος ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-632-1 φέροντες ⁹³¹ κομίζομεν ⁹³²

mvp-comment-633-1 τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖν’ ⁹³³

mvp-comment-633-2 πρόχειρον ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-633-3 ἄχθος ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-634-1 κέκευθεν ⁹³⁶

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

.

mvp-comment-635-1 δότε ⁹³⁷ ἥτις ἐστί ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-635-2 ἐπαιτεῖται ⁹³⁹

mvp-comment-635-3 πρὸς αἵματος ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-635-4 φύσιν ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-636-1 ψυχῆς Ὀρέστου λοιπόν ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-636-2 ἀπ’ ἐλπίδων ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-636-3 Then οὐχ ὧνπερ ⁹⁴⁴

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 ⁹⁴⁵ οὐχ ὥσπερ ⁹⁴⁶

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 ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-637-2 οὐδὲν ὄντα ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-637-3 βαστάζω ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-637-4 λαμπρὸν ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-638-1 ὡς ὤφελον ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-638-2 The v.l. ὤφελες ⁹⁵² κλέψασα ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-638-3 τοῖνδε ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-638-4 κἀνασώσασθαι ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-638-5 φόνου ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-639-1 ὅπως … ἔκεισο ⁹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-639-2 τύμβου πατρῴου ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-640-1 φυγὰς ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-641-2 φίλαισι ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-642-1 λουτροῖς σ’ ἐκόσμης’ ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-643-1 ἄθλιον βάρος ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-644-1 ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-644-2 σμικρὸς … ὄγκος ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-645-1 τῆς ἐμῆς … τρ. ἀνωφελήτου ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-645-2 παρέσχον ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-646-1 ἢ κἀμοῦ ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-646-2 μητρὸς … φίλος ⁹⁶⁹

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 ⁹⁷⁰ ἦσαν ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-647-2 ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τροφός ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-648-1 ἀδελφὴ σοὶ ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-648-2 προσηυδώμην ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-649-1 ἐκλέλοιπε ⁹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-649-2 θανόντι ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-649-3 συναρπάσας ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-649-4 θύελλ’ ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-650-1 τέθνηκ’ ἐγὼ σοί ⁹⁷⁹ σοί ⁹⁸⁰ τέθνηκ’ ἐγώ σοι ⁹⁸¹

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 ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-651-1 μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-651-2 ἧς ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-651-3 1160—

mvp-comment-652-1 οἴμοι μοί ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-653-1 κελεύθους ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-653-2 ἀπώλεσας ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-653-3 δῆτ’ ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-654-1 τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μ’ ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-654-2 τὴν μηδὲν ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-654-3 τὸ μηδὲν ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-655-1 μετεῖχον τῶν ἴσων ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-655-2 μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-656-1 τοὺς ⁹⁹⁴ θανόντας ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-657-1 θνητοῦ ⁹⁹⁶ θνητὸς ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-657-2 φρόνει ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-658-1 πᾶσιν γὰρ ἡμῖν ⁹⁹⁹ τοῦτ’ ¹⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-659-1 φεῦ φεῦ, τί λέξω ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-659-2 λόγων ¹⁰⁰² ποῖ ¹⁰⁰³ ἀμηχανῶν ¹⁰⁰⁴

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 ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-661-1 κλεινὸν ¹⁰⁰⁶

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’ ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-663-1 ταλαίνης ¹⁰⁰⁸ συμφορᾶς ¹⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-664-1 οὐ ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-665-1 ἀτίμως ¹⁰¹¹ κἀθέως ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-666-1 ἢ )μὲ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-666-2 δυσφημεῖς ¹⁰¹⁴ ἄλλην ¹⁰¹⁵ ξένε ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-667-1 ἀνύμφου ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-667-2 τροφῆς ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-668-1 τί δή ποτ’ ¹⁰¹⁹ μοι ¹⁰²⁰ ἐπισκοπῶν ¹⁰²¹ τί ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-669-1 ἐν τῷ … τῶν εἰρημένων ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-670-1 ὁρῶν σὲ ¹⁰²⁴ σὲ ¹⁰²⁵ σε ¹⁰²⁶ τῶν ἐμῶν ¹⁰²⁷ σέ ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-670-2 ἐμπρέπουσαν ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-671-1 πόθεν ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-672-1 εἶτα ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-672-2 δουλεύω ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-673-1 ἀνάγκῃ … προτρέπει ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-674-1 ἐξισοῖ ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-675-1 χερσὶν ¹⁰³⁵ λύμη βίου ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-676-1 οὑπαρήξων ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-677-1 προὔθηκας ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-678-1 ποτέ ¹⁰³⁹ ἐμέ ¹⁰⁴⁰ νύν μ’ ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-679-1 τοῖσι σοῖς ¹⁰⁴² τοῖς ἴσοις ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-679-2 The word ξυγγενὴς ¹⁰⁴⁴ τοῖσι σοῖς ¹⁰⁴⁵ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-680-1 τὸ τῶνδε ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-681-1 νυν ¹⁰⁴⁸

mvp-comment-682-1 πιθοῦ ¹⁰⁴⁹ πείθου ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-683-1 πρὸς γενείου ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-683-2 The reading of the MSS., μ<*> )ξέλη ¹⁰⁵² μ’ ἐξέλῃ ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-683-3 ἐξέλῃ ¹⁰⁵⁴

mvp-comment-683-4 τὰ φίλτατα ¹⁰⁵⁵

mvp-comment-684-1 οὐ φήμ’ ἐάσειν ¹⁰⁵⁶

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 ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-685-1 εἰ στερήσομαι ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-686-1 ὦ φίλτατον φῶς ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-687-1 ὦ φθέγμ’ ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-687-2 μηκέτ’ ἄλλοθεν πύθῃ ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-688-1 ἔχω … ἔχοις ἀεί ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-689-1 πολίτιδες ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-690-1 μηχαναῖσι ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-690-2 σεσωσμένον ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-691-1 συμφοραῖσι ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-691-2 γεγηθὸς … δάκρυον ¹⁰⁶⁷

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 ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-694-1 ἀρτίως ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-694-2 οὓς ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-694-3 ἐχρήζετε ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-695-1 σῖγ’ ἔχουσα ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-696-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ μὰ ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-696-2 τὴν ἄδμητον ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-696-3 Ἄρτεμιν ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-697-1 τόδε μὲν … ὂν ἀεί ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-697-2 περισσὸν ἄχθος ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-697-3 ἔνδον … ὂν ἀεί ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-698-1 γε μὲν δὴ ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-698-2 Ἄρης ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-698-3 εὖ δ’ ἔξοισθα ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀνέφελον … κακόν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-699-2 The author of the scholium on 1245 read ἐνέβαλες ¹⁰⁸³ ἐπέβαλες ¹⁰⁸⁴ ὑπέβαλες ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-699-3 καταλύσιμον ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-699-4 λησόμενον ¹⁰⁸⁷

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’ ¹⁰⁸⁸ καὶ ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-700-2 παρουσία ¹⁰⁹⁰ φράζῃ ¹⁰⁹¹ ἔργων τῶνδε ¹⁰⁹²

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 ¹⁰⁹³ φράζῃ ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-701-1 ὁ πᾶς … χρόνος ¹⁰⁹⁵ παρὼν ¹⁰⁹⁶ δίκᾳ ¹⁰⁹⁷ ἐννέπειν ¹⁰⁹⁸ πρέποι ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-701-2 μόλις γὰρ ¹¹⁰⁰ ἔσχον ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-702-1 σῴζου τόδε ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-703-1 μακρὰν … λέγειν ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-704-1 τίς οὖν ¹¹⁰⁴ ἀξίαν ¹¹⁰⁵ σοῦ πεφηνότος ¹¹⁰⁶ λόγων ¹¹⁰⁷ μεταβάλοιτ’ ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-704-2 <*>δε ¹¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-704-3 1264 After τότ’ εἶδες ¹¹¹⁰ ὅτε ¹¹¹¹ εὖτε ¹¹¹² ὅτε ¹¹¹³ θεοὶ ¹¹¹⁴ ὅτε ¹¹¹⁵ τότ’ ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-704-4 ἐπώτρυναν ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-705-1 χάριτος ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-705-2 ἐπόρισεν ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-706-1 δαιμόνιον ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-706-2 τίθημ’ ¹¹²¹

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 ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-708-1 ὁδὸν … φανῆναι ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-709-1 τί μὴ ποήσω ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-710-1 μή μ’ ἀποστερήσῃς … ἁδονὰν ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-710-2 μεθέσθαι ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-711-1 ξυναινεῖς ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-711-2 τί μὴν οὔ ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-712-1 ὦ φίλαι ¹¹²⁹ ὦ φίλ’, ὅτ’ ¹¹³⁰ φίλαι ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-712-2 αὐδάν ¹¹³² οὐδ’ ἂν ἤλπις’ ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-712-3 1283 f. There can be no doubt that something has been lost before ἔσχον ¹¹³⁴ οὐδ’ ἂν ¹¹³⁵ ὁρμὰν ¹¹³⁶

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 ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-712-7 οὐδ’ ἂν ἔσχον ¹¹³⁸ ἄναυδον ¹¹³⁹

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

mvp-comment-713-1 τάλαινα ¹¹⁴⁰

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 ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-715-1 καὶ μήτε μήτηρ ¹¹⁴²

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 ¹¹⁴³ δόμων ¹¹⁴⁴ ἀντλεῖ, τὰ δ’ ἐκχεῖ ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-716-2 ἐκχεῖ ¹¹⁴⁶ διασπείρει μάτην ¹¹⁴⁷ ἀντλεῖ ¹¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-717-1 χρόνου … καιρὸν ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-717-2 ἐξείργοι ¹¹⁵⁰

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 ¹¹⁵¹ κεκρυμμένοι ¹¹⁵² γελῶντας ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-719-1 οὕτω δὲ ¹¹⁵⁴ ὅπως ¹¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-719-2 )πιγνώσεται ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-719-3 νῷν ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-719-4 ἐπελθόντοιν δόμους ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-720-1 μάτην ¹¹⁵⁹ μὴ ¹¹⁶⁰ τῇ ¹¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-720-2 εὐτυχησωμεν ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-721-1 καὶ σοὶ ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-721-2 ὧδ’ … τῇδε ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-721-3 τοὐμὸν ¹¹⁶⁵ φίλον ¹¹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-722-1 κοὐκ ἐμὰς ¹¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-723-1 κοὐδ’ ¹¹⁶⁸ βραχὺ ¹¹⁶⁹ καὶ ¹¹⁷⁰ λυπήσασα ¹¹⁷¹ δεξαίμην ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-724-1 ὑπηρετοίην ¹¹⁷³ ὑπηρετοίμην ¹¹⁷⁴ δαίμονι ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-725-1 τἀνθένδε ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-726-1 στέγας ¹¹⁷⁷ οἴκοις ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-726-2 δείσῃς … ὡς … ὄψεται ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-727-1 ἐντέτηκε ¹¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-728-1 χαρᾷ ¹¹⁸¹ χαρᾶς ¹¹⁸² δακρυρροοῦσα ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-729-1 ἥτις ¹¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-729-2 ἐσεῖδον ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-729-3 ᾶσκοπα ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-730-1 ὅτε ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-730-2 τοιαύτην ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-730-3 ὥς σοι ¹¹⁸⁹ ὡς σοὶ ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-731-1 οὐκ ἂν δυοῖν ἥμαρτον ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-732-1 σιγᾶν … χωροῦντος ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-732-2 ἐπῄνες’ ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-732-3 ἐπ’ ἐξόδῳ ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-732-4 τῶν ἔνδοθεν ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-733-1 ἄλλως τε καὶ φέροντες ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-733-2 οἷ’ ἂν … ἀπώσαιτ’ ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-734-1 τητώμενοι ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-734-2 παρ’ οὐδὲν ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-735-1 οὐ παρ’ αὐτοῖς ¹²⁰⁰ αὐτοῖς ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-736-1 σταθμοῖσι ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-737-1 ὑμὶν … ὑμῶν ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-737-2 τὰ δρώμεν’ ¹²⁰⁴ τὰ σώματα ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-738-1 νῦν δ’ … καὶ νῦν ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-739-1 σὺν χαρᾷ βοῆς ¹²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-740-1 ἀπηλλάχθαι ¹²⁰⁸

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 ¹²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-742-1 ὑπάρχει ¹²¹⁰ σε … τινά ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-743-1 ὡς ἔοικεν, ὡς τεθν ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-744-1 εἷς τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου … ἀνήρ ¹²¹³ ἐνθάδε ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-745-1 χαίρουσιν οὖν τούτοισιν ¹²¹⁵ ἐν ¹²¹⁶ οὖν ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-746-1 τελουμένων ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-746-2 ὡς δὲ νῦν ἔχει ¹²¹⁹ τὰ κείνων πάντα καλῶς ¹²²⁰ καὶ τὰ μὴ καλῶς ¹²²¹