Sophocles Electra 1466

mvp-comment-184-1 ὡς νῦν ¹ ὥς νυν ²

mvp-comment-184-2 ἱστόρει· τί σοι φίλον ³ τό ⁴ τά ⁵

mvp-comment-184-3 With the other punctuation, ἱστόρει τί σοι φίλον ⁶

mvp-comment-185-1 καὶ δὴ ⁷

mvp-comment-185-2 τοῦ κασιγνήτου τί φής ⁸

mvp-comment-185-3 ἥξοντος ⁹ ἢ μέλλοντος ¹⁰

mvp-comment-186-1 φησίν γε ¹¹

mvp-comment-186-2 ποεῖ ¹²

mvp-comment-187-1 καὶ μὴν ἔγωγ’ ¹³ γε ¹⁴

mvp-comment-187-2 οὐκ ὄκνῳ ¹⁵

mvp-comment-188-1 ἀρκεῖν ¹⁶

mvp-comment-189-1 ἐπεί ¹⁷

mvp-comment-189-2 μακρὰν ¹⁸

mvp-comment-189-3 324 Here, as in 316, νῦν ¹⁹ νυν ²⁰

mvp-comment-189-4 δόμων ²¹ φέρουσαν ²²

mvp-comment-190-1 ὅμαιμον ²³

mvp-comment-190-2 φύσιν ²⁴

mvp-comment-191-1 Χρυσόθεμιν ²⁵

mvp-comment-192-1 οἷα ²⁶ νομίζεται ²⁷

mvp-comment-193-1 πρὸς θυρῶνος ἐξόδοις ²⁸ φωνεῖς ²⁹ ἐλθοῦσα ³⁰ αὖ ³¹

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

mvp-comment-194-1 θυμῷ … χαρίζεσθαι ³²

mvp-comment-195-1 καίτοι τοσοῦτόν γ’ οἶδα ³³

mvp-comment-195-2 κἀμαυτήν, ὅτι ³⁴

mvp-comment-195-3 333 f. For the repeated ἄν ³⁵

mvp-comment-195-4 οἶ) αὐτοῖς φρονῶ ³⁶

mvp-comment-196-1 ὑφειμένῃ ³⁷ πλεῖν ³⁸

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

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

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

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

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

mvp-comment-197-1 καὶ μὴ δοκεῖν ³⁹

mvp-comment-198-1 τοιαῦτα δ’ ἄλλα ⁴⁰ ἀλλὰ ⁴¹ ἄλλα ⁴²

mvp-comment-199-1 καίτοι τὸ μὲν δίκαιον ⁴³

mvp-comment-199-2 κρίνεις ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-199-3 εἰ … με δεῖ ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-199-4 ἐλευθέραν ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-199-5 ζῆν ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-199-6 πάντ’ ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-199-7 ἀκουστέα ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-200-1 δεινόν γε ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-201-1 τῆς … τικτούσης ⁵¹

mvp-comment-201-2 μέλειν ⁵²

mvp-comment-202-1 τἀμὰ νουθετήματα ⁵³

mvp-comment-202-2 κείνης διδακτά ⁵⁴

mvp-comment-202-3 ἐκ σαυτῆς ⁵⁵

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

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

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

mvp-comment-203-3 ἔπειθ’ ⁵⁶

mvp-comment-203-4 ἑλοῦ γε ⁵⁷

mvp-comment-203-5 φρονεῖν κακῶς ⁵⁸

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

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

mvp-comment-204-1 τῶν φίλων ⁵⁹

mvp-comment-205-1 ἥτις ⁶⁰ φρονοῦσα ⁶¹ μῖσος ⁶²

mvp-comment-206-1 πάντα ⁶³

mvp-comment-206-2 τιμωρουμένης ⁶⁴

mvp-comment-207-1 οὔτε … τε ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-207-2 τήν τε δρῶσαν ⁶⁶

mvp-comment-208-1 πρὸς κακοῖσι ⁶⁷

mvp-comment-208-2 δειλίαν ἔχει ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-209-1 ἐπεὶ ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-209-2 ἢ μάθ’ ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-210-1 ἐπαρκούντως ⁷¹

mvp-comment-211-1 προσάπτειν ⁷²

mvp-comment-211-2 εἴ τις ἔστ’ ἐκεῖ χάρις ⁷³

mvp-comment-212-1 ἡμὶν ⁷⁴ ξύνει ⁷⁵

mvp-comment-213-1 τὰ σὰ … δῶῤ ⁷⁶

mvp-comment-213-2 ἐφ’ οἶσι ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-213-3 χλιδᾷς ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-214-1 ὑπεικάθοιμι ⁷⁹

mvp-comment-214-2 πλουσία ⁸⁰

mvp-comment-214-3 περιρρείτω ⁸¹

mvp-comment-215-1 τοὐμὲ μὴ λυπεῖν ⁸²

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

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

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

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

mvp-comment-216-1 οὐδ’ ἂν σὺ ⁸³

mvp-comment-217-1 παῖδα ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-217-2 κεκλῆσθαι ⁸⁵

mvp-comment-218-1 πλείστοις ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-219-1 μηδὲν ⁸⁷ πρὸς ὀργὴν ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-220-1 ἀμφοῖν ⁸⁹ τοῖς λόγοις ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-221-1 τῆσδε … αὕτη ⁹¹ πάλιν ⁹²

mvp-comment-222-1 ἐγὼ μὲν ⁹³

mvp-comment-222-2 πως ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-222-3 μύθων ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-223-1 οὐδ’ ⁹⁶ κοὐδ’ ⁹⁷ ποτέ ⁹⁸

mvp-comment-224-1 ἰὸν ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-224-2 σχήσει ¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-225-1 τὸ δεινὸν ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-225-2 εἰ γὰρ τῶνδέ μοι ¹⁰² εἰ ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-226-1 γὰρ ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-226-2 γόων ¹⁰⁵ λόγων ¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-227-1 ἐνταῦθα ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-227-2 ἔνθα μή ποτε … προσόψει ¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-227-3 ζῶσα ¹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-227-4 κατηρεφεῖ ¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-227-5 χθονὸς τῆσδ’ ἐκτὸς ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-227-6 ὑμνήσεις ¹¹²

mvp-comment-228-1 πρὸς ταῦτα ¹¹³

mvp-comment-228-2 Nauck reads κοὔ ¹¹⁴ καί ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-228-3

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

mvp-comment-229-1 ἦ ταῦτα δὴ ¹¹⁶ ἦ … δὴ ¹¹⁷ ἦ … γὰρ ¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-229-2 καὶ βεβούλευνται ¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-230-1 ἀλλ’ ἐξίκοιτο ¹²⁰

mvp-comment-230-2 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκ’ ¹²¹

mvp-comment-231-1 τίνα … τόνδ’ ¹²²

mvp-comment-231-2 τάλαινα ¹²³

mvp-comment-232-1 εἴ τι τῶνδε ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-233-1 ποῦ ποτ’ εἶ φρενῶν ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-234-1 ὅπως ¹²⁶ ὑμῶν ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-234-2 προσώτατ’ ¹²⁸ προσωτάτω φύγω ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-235-1 βίου … τοῦ παρόντος ¹³⁰

mvp-comment-236-1 καλὸς γὰρ ¹³¹

mvp-comment-236-2 θαυμάσαι ¹³²

mvp-comment-237-1 τοῖς φίλοις ¹³³

mvp-comment-238-1 εἰκαθεῖν ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-239-1 ταῦτα ¹³⁵ οὐκ ἐμοὺς ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-240-1 γε ¹³⁷ μέντοι ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-240-2 μὴ )ξ ¹³⁹

mvp-comment-240-3 πεσεῖν ¹⁴⁰

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

.

mvp-comment-241-1 συγγνώμην ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-242-1 τἄπη ¹⁴²

mvp-comment-242-2 πρὸς κακῶν ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-243-1 μή πω ¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-244-1 οἷπερ … ὁδοῦ ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-245-1 τῷ φέρεις ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-245-2 ἔμπυρα ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-246-1 τυμβεῦσαι χοάς ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-247-1 βροτῶν ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-248-1 ὃν ἔκταν’ αὐτή ¹⁵⁰ ὅν γ’ ¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-249-1 τῷ τοῦτ’ ἤρεσεν ¹⁵²

mvp-comment-250-1 δείματος ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-250-2 δοκεῖν ἐμοί ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-251-1 θεοὶ πατρῷοι ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-251-2 συγγένεσθέ γ’ ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-251-3 ἀλλὰ νῦν ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-252-1 εἴποιμ’ ἂν τότε ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-253-1 ἐπὶ σμικρὸν ¹⁵⁹ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν ¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-253-2 φράσαι ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-254-1 σμικροὶ λόγοι ¹⁶²

mvp-comment-255-1 πατρὸς … δευτέραν ὁμιλίαν ¹⁶³

mvp-comment-255-2 ἐφέστιον πῆξαι ¹⁶⁴

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 ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-256-1 ἔκ τε ¹⁶⁶ ἐκ δὲ ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-256-2 βρύοντα ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-256-3 ᾧ … γενέσθαι ¹⁶⁹

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 ¹⁷⁰ τοῦ ¹⁷¹ παρόντος ¹⁷² του ¹⁷³

mvp-comment-257-2 Ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὖναρ ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-258-1 οὐ κάτοιδα, πλὴν ¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-258-2 πέμπει με κείνη ¹⁷⁶

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 ¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-260-1 ἀβουλίᾳ ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-260-2 σὺν κακῷ ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-260-3 μέτει ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-261-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-261-2 ὦ φίλη ¹⁸² τούτων μὲν ¹⁸³

mvp-comment-262-1 οὐ … θέμις ¹⁸⁴ οὐδ’ ὅσιον ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-262-2 ἐχθρᾶς ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-262-3 κτερίσματ’ ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-262-4 λουτρὰ ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-263-1 ἀλλ’ ἢ πνοαῖσιν ¹⁸⁹ ῥοαῖσιν ¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-263-2 κρύψον ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-263-3 νιν ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-263-4 ἔνθα μή ποτ’ ¹⁹³ ἔνθεν ¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-263-5 εὐνὴν ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-264-1 ἀλλ’ ὅταν θάῃν ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-264-2 The conjecture ἔστ’ ἂν ¹⁹⁷ ὅταν ¹⁹⁸ σῳζέσθω ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-264-3 κειμήλἰ ²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-265-1 ἀρχὴν ²⁰¹ τλημονεστάτη ²⁰²

mvp-comment-266-1 ἔβλαστε ²⁰³

mvp-comment-267-1 ὅν γ’ … τῷδ’ ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-267-2 ἐπέστεφε ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-267-3 442 f. The position of αὐτῇ ²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-267-4 δέξεσθαι ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-267-5 It seems, then, a reasonable inference that here, where the reference is to future time, he would have written δέξεσθαι ²⁰⁸ δέξασθαι ²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-267-6 444 ff. Join θανὼν ἄτιμος ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-267-7 ἐμασχαλίσθη ²¹¹

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 ²¹²

mvp-comment-267-10 ἐξέμαξ ν ²¹³

mvp-comment-267-11 ἆρα μὴ ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-268-1 οὐκ ἔστιν ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-268-2 ταῦτα μὲν μέθες· σὺ δὲ ²¹⁶

mvp-comment-269-1 βοστρύχων ἄκρας φόβας ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-269-2 κἀμοῦ ταλαίνης ²¹⁸

mvp-comment-270-1 †ἀλιπαρῆ ²¹⁹ λιπαρῆ ²²⁰

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

may conceal some corruption: ought possibly to be τήνδε τ’ ²²¹ ἀλίπαρον ²²²

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 ²²³

mvp-comment-271-2 χλιδαῖς ²²⁴

mvp-comment-272-1 προσπίτνουσα ²²⁵ αὐτὸν ²²⁶

mvp-comment-273-1 ἐξ ὑπερτέρας χερός ²²⁷

mvp-comment-273-2 ζῶντ’ ²²⁸

mvp-comment-274-1 ἀφνεωτέραις ²²⁹

mvp-comment-274-2 στέφωμεν ²³⁰

mvp-comment-274-3 δωρούμεθα ²³¹

mvp-comment-275-1 οἶμαι μὲν οὖν ²³²

mvp-comment-275-2 If μέλον ²³³ μέλειν ²³⁴ μέλον ²³⁵

mvp-comment-276-1 σοί ²³⁶

mvp-comment-277-1 βροτῶν ²³⁷

mvp-comment-278-1 πρὸς εὐσέβειαν ²³⁸

mvp-comment-279-1 δράσω ²³⁹

mvp-comment-279-2 τὸ γὰρ δίκαιον ²⁴⁰

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 ²⁴¹

mvp-comment-280-1 παρ’ ὑμῶν ²⁴²

mvp-comment-281-1 πικρὰν ²⁴³ δοκῶ με … τολμήσειν ²⁴⁴ ἔτι ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-282-1 εἰ μὴ )γὼ ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-282-2 γνώμας λειπομένα ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-283-1 ἁ πρόμαντις Δίκα ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-283-2 δίκαια φερομένα χεροῖν κράτη ²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-284-1 μέτεισιν ²⁵⁰

mvp-comment-284-2 οὐ μακροῦ χρόνου ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-285-1 ὕπεστί μοι θράσος ²⁵² κλύουσαν ²⁵³

mvp-comment-285-2 ἁδυπνόων … ὀνειράτων ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-286-1 ἀμναστεῖ γ’ ὁ φύσας ς’ ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-287-1 χαλκόπλακτος ²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-287-2 γένυς ²⁵⁷

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 ²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-289-1 καὶ πολύπους καὶ πολύχειρ ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-290-1 λόχοις ²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-290-2 χαλκόπους ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-291-1 ἄλεκτρ’ ἄνυμφα ²⁶²

mvp-comment-291-2 γάμων ἁμιλλήμαθ’ ²⁶³

mvp-comment-291-3 ἐπέβα ²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-292-1 πρὸ τῶνδέ τοι … συνδρῶσιν ²⁶⁵

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 ²⁶⁶

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 ²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-293-1 ἀψεγές ²⁶⁸ ἀψεφές ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-293-2 πελᾶν ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-294-1 τοῖς δρῶσι ²⁷¹ τοῖς συνδρῶσιν ²⁷²

mvp-comment-295-1 μαντεῖαι βροτῶν ²⁷³

mvp-comment-296-1 εὖ κατασχήσει ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-297-1 ἱππεία ²⁷⁵

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 ²⁷⁶

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 ²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-299-2 ὁ ποντισθεὶς Μυρτίλος ²⁷⁸

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 ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-300-1 παγχρυσέων δίφρων ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-301-1 πρόρριζος ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-301-2 ἐκριφθείς ²⁸²

mvp-comment-302-1 ἔλειπεν ²⁸³ ἔλιπεν ²⁸⁴ οἴκου ²⁸⁵ οἴκους ²⁸⁶ πω ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-303-1 πολύπονος ²⁸⁸ αἰκία ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-304-1 ἀνειμένη ²⁹⁰ μέν ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-304-2 ὡς ἔοικας ²⁹²

mvp-comment-304-3 στρέφει ²⁹³

mvp-comment-304-4 Clytaemnestra begins in the same strain as Chrysothemis, who likewise emphasised her reproof by the word αὖ ²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-305-1 μή τοι θυραίαν γ’ ²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-305-2 αἰσχύνειν φίλους ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-306-1 καίτοι ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-306-2 δὴ ²⁹⁸ πολλούς ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-306-3 ἐξεῖπάς με … ὡς ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-306-4 θρασεῖα ³⁰¹ τραχεῖα ³⁰²

mvp-comment-306-5 ἄρχω ³⁰³

mvp-comment-307-1 ὕβριν … οὐκ ἔχω ³⁰⁴ κακῶς κλύουσα ³⁰⁵

mvp-comment-308-1 πατὴρ γάρ ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-308-2 πρόσχημα ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-309-1 ἡ γὰρ Δίκη ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-310-1 ᾗ χρῆν σ’ ἀρήγειν ³⁰⁹

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 ³¹⁰ Ἑλλήνων ³¹¹

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 ³¹²

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 ³¹³

mvp-comment-315-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντ’ ἀδελφοῦ δῆτα ³¹⁴ κτανὼν ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-315-2 ἀντὶ ἀδελφοῦ ³¹⁶

mvp-comment-315-3 τἄμ’ ³¹⁷

mvp-comment-316-1 παῖδες … διπλοῖ ³¹⁸

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

.

mvp-comment-317-1 ἢ ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-317-2 ἢ τῶν ἐμῶν Ἅιδης ³²⁰

mvp-comment-318-1 δαίσασθαι ³²¹

mvp-comment-318-2 The conj. λῄσασθαι ³²²

mvp-comment-319-1 πανώλει ³²³

mvp-comment-319-2 παρεῖτο ³²⁴

mvp-comment-319-3 The sense does not absolutely require us to take Μενέλεω δ’ ³²⁵

mvp-comment-320-1 ἀβούλου ³²⁶

mvp-comment-320-2 κακοῦ γνώμην ³²⁷

mvp-comment-321-1 δοκῶ μέν ³²⁸

mvp-comment-321-2 εἰ καὶ ³²⁹

mvp-comment-322-1 εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι ³³⁰

mvp-comment-323-1 τοῖς πεπραγμένοις ³³¹

mvp-comment-324-1 γνώμην δικαίαν σχοῦσα ³³²

mvp-comment-325-1 ἐρεῖς μὲν οὐχὶ ³³³ ἐρεῖς ³³⁴ ἐρεῖς … μ’ ὡς ³³⁵

mvp-comment-325-2 ἄρξασά τι λυπηρὸν ³³⁶

mvp-comment-325-3 τάδ’ ἐξήκους’ ³³⁷

mvp-comment-326-1 τοῦ τεθνηκότος θ’ ὕπερ ³³⁸

mvp-comment-327-1 καὶ μὴν ³³⁹

mvp-comment-327-2 λόγους ἐξῆρχές με ³⁴⁰

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 ³⁴¹ πατέρα ³⁴² φὴς ³⁴³

mvp-comment-329-1 εἴτ’ οὖν … εἴτε ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-329-2 λέξω ³⁴⁵ δείξω ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-330-1 ὡς οὐ δίκῃ γ’ ³⁴⁷ ἔσπασεν ³⁴⁸ πειθὼ ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-331-1 κυναγὸν ³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-331-2 ποινὰς ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-331-3 τὰ πολλὰ πνεύματ’ ἔσχ’ ³⁵² τὰ πολλὰ ³⁵³ ἔσχε ³⁵⁴

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 ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-331-8 Αὐλίδι ³⁵⁶

mvp-comment-332-1 ἢ )γὼ φράσω ³⁵⁷ κείνης ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-333-1 ὡς ἐγὼ κλύω ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-333-2 θεᾶς … κατ’ ἄλσος ³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-333-3 παίζων ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-333-4 ποδοῖν ³⁶²

mvp-comment-334-1 ἔλαφον ³⁶³

mvp-comment-334-2 στικτὸν ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-334-3 κεράστην ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-334-4 οὗ κατὰ σφαγὰς ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-335-1 ἐκκομπάσας ἔπος τι τυγχάνει ³⁶⁷ βαλών ³⁶⁸

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 ³⁶⁹ ἔπος ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-335-4 Monk, with Musgrave, took σφαγὰς ³⁷¹

mvp-comment-336-1 ἐκ τοῦδε ³⁷²

mvp-comment-336-2 μηνίσασα ³⁷³

mvp-comment-336-3 Λητῴα κόρη ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-337-1 ὡς ³⁷⁵ ἀντίσταθμον ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-337-2 ἐκθύσειε ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-338-1 ὧδ’ ἦν ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-338-2 τὰ … θύματ’ ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-338-3 λύσις ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-338-4 πρὸς οἶκον ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-339-1 πολλὰ ³⁸²

mvp-comment-339-2 ἀντιβὰς ³⁸³

mvp-comment-339-3 μόλις ³⁸⁴

mvp-comment-340-1 εἰ δ’ οὖν ³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-340-2 ἐρῶ γὰρ καὶ τὸ σόν ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-341-1 τούτου … οὕνεκ’ ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-341-2 νόμῳ ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-342-1 ὅρα ³⁸⁹ μὴ … τιθῇς ³⁹⁰ τίθης ³⁹¹

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 ³⁹²

mvp-comment-343-1 εἰ γὰρ κτενοῦμεν ³⁹³

mvp-comment-343-2 πρώτη ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-344-1 εἰσόρα ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-344-2 οὐκ οὖσαν ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-344-3 τίθης ³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-344-4 εἰ … θέλεις ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-345-1 τῷ παλαμναίῳ ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-345-2 πρόσθεν ἐξαπώλεσας ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-346-1 παιδοποιεῖς ⁴⁰¹

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 ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-346-4 κἀξ εὐσεβῶν ⁴⁰³

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 ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-346-7 ἐκβαλοῦσ’ ἔχεις ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-347-1 πῶς ταῦτ’ ἐπαινέσαιμ’ ἄν ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-347-2 ἢ ⁴⁰⁷ ἦ ⁴⁰⁸ καὶ τοῦτ’ ⁴⁰⁹ ἄποινα ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-348-1 αἰσχρῶς δ’ ⁴¹¹ δ’ ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐάν περ καὶ λέγῃς ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-348-3 ἐχθροῖς γαμεῖσθαι ⁴¹⁴

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 ⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-349-2 πᾶσαν ἵης γλῶσσαν ⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-350-1 κακοστομοῦμεν ⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-350-2 καί σ’ ἔγωγε δεσπότιν ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-350-3 εἰς ἡμᾶς ⁴¹⁹ ἣ ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-351-1 βίον μοχθηρόν ⁴²¹

mvp-comment-351-2 ἔκ τε σοῦ ⁴²² κακοῖς … ξυνοῦσα ⁴²³

mvp-comment-351-3 συννόμου ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-352-1 ὁ δ’ ἄλλος ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-352-2 χεῖρα σὴν ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-352-3 τρίβει βίον ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-352-4 603 The reason for writing δή με σοὶ ⁴²⁸ δή μέ σοι ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-352-5 μιάστορα ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-353-1 τοῦδέ γ’ οὕνεκα ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-354-1 εἰς ἅπαντας ⁴³²

mvp-comment-354-2 χρῇς ⁴³³

mvp-comment-354-3 στόμαργον ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-355-1 τῶνδε τῶν ἔ|ργων ἴδρις ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-355-2 σχεδόν τι ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-355-3 οὐ καταισχύνω ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-356-1 ὁρῶ μένος πνέουσαν ⁴³⁸ μένος πνέουσαν ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-356-2 σὺν δίκῃ ξύνεστι ⁴⁴⁰

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 ⁴⁴¹ ἐμοὶ ⁴⁴² μοι ⁴⁴³ δεῖ ⁴⁴⁴

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 ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-358-2 τηλικοῦτος ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-358-3 ἆρα ⁴⁴⁷

mvp-comment-358-4 χωρεῖν ἂν ⁴⁴⁸ εἰς πᾶν ἔργον ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-359-1 εὖ νυν ἐπίστω ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-359-2 ἔξωρα ⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-359-3 προσεικότα ⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-360-1 ἀλλὰ … γὰρ ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-360-2 ἡ … ἐκ σοῦ δυσμένεια ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-360-3 ἐξαναγκάζει ⁴⁵⁵ αἰσχροῖς ⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-360-4 622 f. The word θρέμμα ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-360-5 ἦ σ’ ἐγὼ ⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-361-1 νιν ⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-361-2 εὑρίσκεται ⁴⁶⁰

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 ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-362-2 δέσποιναν ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-362-3 Ἄρτεμιν ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-362-4 θράσους τοῦδ’ οὐκ ἀλύξεις ⁴⁶⁴ μόλῃ ⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-363-1 ὁρᾷς ⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-363-2 ἐκφέρει ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-363-3 The v. l. παρεῖσα ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-364-1 οὐδὲ ⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-364-2 ὑπ’ εὐφήμου βοῆς ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-364-3 ἐπειδὴ σοί γ’ ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-364-4 πᾶν λέγειν ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-365-1 κελεύω ⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-365-2 τοὐμὸν στόμ’ ⁴⁷⁴

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 ⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-365-4 ἡ παροῦσά μοι ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-365-5 θύματα … πάγκαρπα ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-366-1 λυτηρίους … δειμάτων ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-366-2 ἀνάσχω ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-367-1 κλύοις ἂν ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-367-2 προστατήριε ⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-368-1 κεκρυμμένην ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-368-2 οὐ γὰρ ἐν φίλοις ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-369-1 πρὸς φῶς ⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-370-1 πολυγλώσσῳ ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-370-2 σπείρῃ ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-370-3 ματαίαν ⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-371-1 ὧδ’ ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-372-1 γὰρ ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-372-2 δισσῶν ὀνείρων ⁴⁹⁰

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 ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-373-1 ἐσθλά … ἐχθρά ⁴⁹²

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 ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-374-1 εἴ τινες ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-375-1 ἀλλ’ ὧδε ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-375-2 ἀβλαβεῖ βίῳ ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-376-1 δόμους ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-376-2 ἀμφέπειν ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-376-3 φίλοισι ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-377-1 εὐημεροῦσαν ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-377-2 καὶ τέκνων ⁵⁰¹ ὅσων ⁵⁰²

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 ⁵⁰³

mvp-comment-378-1 πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-379-1 τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντα ⁵⁰⁵

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 ⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-380-1 ἦ καὶ ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-380-2 ἐπεικάζων κυρῶ ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-380-3 πρέπ<*> γὰρ ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-381-1 μάλιστα πάντων ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-381-2 ἥδε σοι κείνη πάρα ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-381-3 666 f. The ὦ ⁵¹² χαῖρε ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-382-1 ἐδεξάμην τὸ ῥηθέν ⁵¹⁴

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 ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-383-1 Φανοτεὺς ⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-383-2 πρᾶγμα πορσύνων μέγα ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-384-1 τὸ ποῖον ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-385-1 ἐν βραχεῖ ξυνθεὶς ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-386-1 τί φής, τί φής ⁵²⁰ ξεῖνε ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-386-2 ταύτης ⁵²²

mvp-comment-387-1 νῦν τε καὶ πάλαι ⁵²³

mvp-comment-388-1 οὐδέν εἰμ’ ἔτι ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-389-1 τὰ σαυτῆς πρᾶσς’ ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-389-2 διόλλυται ⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-390-1 κἀπεμπόμην ⁵²⁷ καὶ … φράσω ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-391-1 γὰρ ⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-392-1 πρόσχημ’ ἀγῶνος ⁵³⁰ Ἑλλάδος ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-392-2 πρόσχημα ⁵³²

mvp-comment-392-3 Δελφ. ἄθλων ⁵³³

mvp-comment-393-1 ὀρθίων ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-393-2 δρόμον … οὗ πρώτη κρίσις ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-394-1 εἰσῆλθε ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-395-1 ἰσώσας * τἀφέσει ⁵³⁷ τῇ φύσει ⁵³⁸

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 ⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-396-1 νίκης … γέρας ⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-397-1 χὥπως μὲν ⁵⁴¹

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 ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-398-2 εἰσεκήρυξαν ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-398-3 βραβῆς ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-399-1 δρομων διαύλων ⁵⁴⁵

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

in 692 to .

mvp-comment-400-1 ἐνεγκὼν ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-400-2 τἀπινίκια ⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-401-1 ὠλβίζετ’ ⁵⁴⁸ ἀνακαλ ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-401-2 Ἀγαμέμνονος ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-401-3 ἀγείραντος ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-402-1 καὶ ταῦτα μὲν τοιαῦθ’ ⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-402-2 βλάπτῃ ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-402-3 ἰσχύων ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-403-1 ἄλλης ἡμέρας ⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-403-2 ἱππικῶν ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-404-1 ἡλίου τέλλοντος ⁵⁵⁷

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 ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-406-1 Λίβυες ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-406-2 ζυγωτῶν ⁵⁶⁰ ἐπιστάται ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-407-1 κἀκεῖνος ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-407-2 ἐν τούτοισι ⁵⁶³ ἐπὶ ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-407-3 Θεσσαλὰς … ἵππους ⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-408-1 ξανθαῖσι ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-408-2 πώλοις ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-408-3 Μάγνης ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-409-1 λεύκιππος ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-409-2 Αἰνιὰν ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-410-1 τῶν θεοδμήτων ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-411-1 ἄλλος ⁵⁷² ἐκπληρῶν ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-412-1 στάντες ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-412-2 †ὅθ’ αὐτοὺς ⁵⁷⁵ ὅθ’ ⁵⁷⁶ ἵν’ ⁵⁷⁷ ὅτ’ ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-412-3 βραβῆς ⁵⁷⁹ οἱ τεταγμένοι ⁵⁸⁰

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 ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-413-1 χαλκῆς ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-413-2 ὑπαὶ ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-413-3 οἱ δ’ ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-414-1 ὁμοκλήσαντες ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-415-1 ἐν δὲ ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-415-2 κροτητῶν ⁵⁸⁷

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’ ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-417-1 κέντρων ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-417-2 ὡς ὑπερβάλοι ⁵⁹⁰ τις ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-417-3 χνόας ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-417-4 φρυάγμαθ’ ἱππικά ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-418-1 ὁμοῦ γὰρ ἀμφὶ νῶτα ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-418-2 τροχῶν βάσεις ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-418-3 εἰσέβαλλον ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-419-1 ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-419-2 ἐσχάτην στήλην ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-420-1 ἔχριμπτ’ ἀεὶ σύριγγα ⁵⁹⁹ ἔχριμπτ’ ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-420-2 δεξιὸν δ’ ἀνεὶς κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁰¹

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 ⁶⁰² ἔπειτα δ’ ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-421-2 ἕστασαν ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-422-1 ἄστομοι ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-422-2 βίᾳ φέρουσιν ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-422-3 ἐκ δ’ ὑποστροφῆς ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-423-1 τελοῦντες κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁰⁸

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 ⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-424-1 ἐξ ἑνὸς κακοῦ ⁶¹⁰ ἔθραυε καὶ ἐνέπιπτε ⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-424-2 ναυαγίων ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-424-3 Κρισαῖον … πέδον ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-425-1 γνοὺς δ’ ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-425-2 κἀνοκωχεύει ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-425-3 κλύδων’ ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-426-1 ἔσχατος μὲν ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-426-2 ὑστέρας ἔχων ⁶¹⁸ φέρων ⁶¹⁹ πίστιν φέρων ⁶²⁰

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 ⁶²¹

mvp-comment-428-1 ἐνσείσας. ⁶²²

mvp-comment-429-1 κἀξισώσαντε ζυγὰ ⁶²³

mvp-comment-429-2 τότ’ … ἄλλοθ’ ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-429-3 ἄλλος … ἅτερος ⁶²⁵

mvp-comment-429-4 κάρα προβάλλων ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-429-5 For προβάλλων ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-430-1 τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους πάντας ⁶²⁸

mvp-comment-430-2 ἀσφαλεῖς ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-430-3 ὠρθοῦθ’ ⁶³⁰ ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δί‐ ⁶³¹ φρων ⁶³²

mvp-comment-431-1 λύων ἡνίαν ἀριστερὰν ⁶³³

mvp-comment-432-1 χνόας ⁶³⁴ μέσας ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-433-1 ἀντύγων ⁶³⁶

mvp-comment-433-2 σὺν δ’ ἑλίσσεται ⁶³⁷ τμητοῖς ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-434-1 διεσπάρησαν εἰς μέσον δρόμον ⁶³⁹

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

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

mvp-comment-435-1 στρατὸς ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-435-2 δίφρων ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-435-3 ἀνωλόλυξε ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-435-4 οἷ’ … οἷα ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-436-1 φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας ⁶⁴⁴

mvp-comment-436-2 ἄλλοτ’ ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-436-3 οὐρανῷ σκέλη προφαίνων ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-437-1 διφρηλάται ⁶⁴⁷

mvp-comment-437-2 κατασχεθόντες ⁶⁴⁸

mvp-comment-438-1 κέαντες ⁶⁴⁹

mvp-comment-438-2 ἐν βραχεῖ χαλκῷ ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-438-3 μέγιστον ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-438-4 σῶμα … σποδοῦ ⁶⁵²

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 ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-439-2 ἐκλάχῃ ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-440-1 τοιαῦτά σοι ⁶⁵⁵ ταῦτ’ ἐστίν ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-440-2 ὡς μὲν ἐν λόγῳ ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-440-3 τοῖς δ’ ἰδ., οἵπερ εἴδομεν ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-440-4 764 f. The word δεσπόταισι ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-440-5 πρόρριζον ⁶⁶⁰

mvp-comment-441-1 ὦ Ζεῦ ⁶⁶¹

mvp-comment-441-2 λέγω ⁶⁶²

mvp-comment-442-1 τῷ νῦν λόγῳ ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-443-1 δεινὸν ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-443-2 πάσχοντι ⁶⁶⁵ ὧν τέκῃ ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-444-1 μάτην ἄρ’ ἡμεῖς κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁶⁷

mvp-comment-445-1 μάτην λέγοις ⁶⁶⁸

mvp-comment-446-1 ψυχῆς ⁶⁶⁹

mvp-comment-447-1 μαστῶν κ.τ.λ. ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-447-2 ἀποστὰς ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-447-3 ἀπεξενοῦτο ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-448-1 φόνους ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-449-1 ὥστ’ οὔτε … στεγάζειν ⁶⁷⁴

mvp-comment-449-2 ἐξ ἡμέρας ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-449-3 στεψάζειν ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-449-4 ὁ προστατῶν χρόνος ⁶⁷⁷

mvp-comment-449-5 διῆγε ⁶⁷⁸

mvp-comment-449-6 783 f. The perf. ἀπήλλαγμαι ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-449-7 μείζων ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-450-1 τοὐμὸν ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-450-2 ἐκπίνους’ ⁶⁸²

mvp-comment-450-3 ἄκρατον ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-450-4 νῦν δ’ ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-450-5 ἕκηλα ⁶⁸⁵

mvp-comment-450-6 οὕνεχ’ ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-450-7 ἡμερεύσομεν ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-451-1 οἴμοι τάλαινα ⁶⁸⁸

mvp-comment-451-2 οἰμῶξαι ⁶⁸⁹

mvp-comment-452-1 ἆρ’ ἔχει καλῶς ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-453-1 οὔτοι σὺ ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-454-1 Νέμεσι ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-454-2 τοῦ θανόντος ἀρτίως ⁶⁹³

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 ⁶⁹⁴

mvp-comment-455-2 κἀπεκύρωσεν ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-456-1 οὔκουν … τάδε ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-457-1 οὐχ ὅπως σε παύσομεν ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-458-1 πολλῶν ἂν ἥκοις ⁶⁹⁸ ἔπαυσας ⁶⁹⁹ παύσαις ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-458-2 πολλῶν ⁷⁰¹ ἄξιος ⁷⁰² τυχεῖν ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-459-1 εὖ κυρεῖ ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-459-2 800 f. With πράξειας ⁷⁰⁵

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

seem, then, superfluous. The change of καταξίως ⁷⁰⁶ πράξειας ⁷⁰⁷

mvp-comment-459-4 τοῦ πορεύς. ξένου ⁷⁰⁸

mvp-comment-460-1 τῶν φίλων ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-461-1 ἆρ’ ὑμὶν ⁷¹⁰

mvp-comment-461-2 ὧδ’ ⁷¹¹

mvp-comment-462-1 ὥς μ’ ἀπώλεσας θανών ⁷¹²

mvp-comment-463-1 ἀποσπάσας ⁷¹³ αἵ ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-464-1 μολεῖν ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-465-1 δουλεύειν ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-465-2 πάλιν ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-466-1 ἆρά μοι καλῶς ἔχει ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-467-1 τοῦ λοιποῦ χρόνου ⁷¹⁹

mvp-comment-467-2 818 *

, Hermann's correction of , is made certain by . No dative is needed to explain ξύνοικος ⁷²⁰

mvp-comment-468-1 παρεῖσ’ ἐμαυτὴν ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-468-2 αὐανῶ ⁷²²

mvp-comment-469-1 χάρις ⁷²³

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 ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-470-4 φαέθων ⁷²⁵

mvp-comment-470-5 ἐφορῶντες ⁷²⁶

mvp-comment-470-6 κρύπτουσιν ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-471-1 τί δακρύεις ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-472-1 μηδὲν μέγ’ ἀΰσῃς ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-472-2 ἀΰσῃς ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-473-1 ἀπολεῖς ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-474-1 τῶν … οἰχομένων ⁷³² φανερῶς ⁷³³ ἐλπίδα ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-475-1 κατ’ ἐμοῦ τακομένας ⁷³⁵ ἐπεμβάσει ⁷³⁶ κατ’ ἐμοὶ τακομένᾳ ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-476-1 οἶδα γὰρ ⁷³⁸

mvp-comment-476-2 Ἀμφιάρεων ⁷³⁹ ἄνακτα ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-477-1 χρυσοδέτοις ἕρκεσι ⁷⁴¹ γυναικῶν ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-477-2 κρυφθέντα ⁷⁴³

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 ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-479-1 πάμψυχος ⁷⁴⁵

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 ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-480-2 φεῦ δῆτ’ ⁷⁴⁷ ὀλοὰ γὰρ ⁷⁴⁸ ἐδάμη ⁷⁴⁹ ὀλοὰ ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-480-3 ἐδάμη ⁷⁵¹ ναί ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-481-1 μελέτωρ ⁷⁵³

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 ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-483-1 ἀναρπασθείς ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-484-1 δειλαία δειλαίων ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-485-1 ἴστωρ ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-486-1 πανσύρτῳ … αἰῶνι ⁷⁵⁸ αἰῶνι ⁷⁵⁹

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 ⁷⁶⁰

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 ⁷⁶¹ ἃ θροεῖς ⁷⁶² ἃ θρηνεῖς ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-488-1 μή μέ νυν ⁷⁶⁴

mvp-comment-488-2 παραγάγῃς ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-488-3 ἵν’ ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-489-1 τί φής ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-490-1 πάρεισιν ἐλπίδων ἔτι ⁷⁶⁸

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 ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-492-1 χαλαργοῖς ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-493-1 τμητοῖς ⁷⁷¹

mvp-comment-494-1 ἄσκοπος ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-494-2 ἁ λώβα ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-495-1 ξένος ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-496-1 ἄτερ ἐμᾶν χερῶν ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-497-1 κέκευθεν ⁷⁷⁶

mvp-comment-497-2 οὔτε του ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-497-3 ἀντιάσας ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-497-4 τάφου … γόων ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-498-1 ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς τοι ⁷⁸⁰ τοι ⁷⁸¹ σοι ⁷⁸²

mvp-comment-499-1 τὸ κόσμιον ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-499-2 873 For the place of ὦν ⁷⁸⁴

mvp-comment-500-1 σὺ ⁷⁸⁵ ἴασιν οὐκ ἔνεστ’ ἰδεῖν ⁷⁸⁶

mvp-comment-501-1 ἐναργῶς ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-502-1 ἀλλ’ ἦ ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-502-2 τοῖς ⁷⁸⁹

mvp-comment-503-1 μὰ τὴν πατρῴαν ἑστίαν ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-503-2 ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὕβρει ⁷⁹¹

mvp-comment-503-3 ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον ⁷⁹² ὡς ⁷⁹³

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

for νῷν ⁷⁹⁴

mvp-comment-504-1 ἐξ ἐμοῦ ⁷⁹⁵ τε καί ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-505-1 ἰδοῦσα πίστιν ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-505-2 εἰς τί μοι ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-505-3 ἀνηκέστῳ ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-505-4 πυρί ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-506-1 σὺ δ’ οὖν ⁸⁰¹

mvp-comment-506-2 τῷ λόγῳ ⁸⁰²

mvp-comment-507-1 καὶ δὴ ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-507-2 κατειδόμην ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-508-1 ἀρχαῖον τάφον ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-509-1 κολώνης ἐξ ἄκρας ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-509-2 γάλακτος ⁸⁰⁷

mvp-comment-509-3 περιστεφῆ … ἀνθέων ⁸⁰⁸

mvp-comment-509-4 ἔστιν ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-509-5 θήκην ⁸¹⁰

mvp-comment-510-1 ἔσχον θαῦμα ⁸¹¹

mvp-comment-510-2 ἐγχρίμπτῃ ⁸¹² ἐγχρίμπτει ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-511-1 ἐν γαλήνῃ ⁸¹⁴

mvp-comment-512-1 ἐσχάτης … πυρᾶς ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-512-2 νεώρη ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-513-1 ἐμπαίει κ.τ.λ. ⁸¹⁷ ὄμμα ⁸¹⁸

mvp-comment-513-2 σύνηθες ⁸¹⁹ ὁρᾶν ⁸²⁰

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 ⁸²¹

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 ⁸²²

mvp-comment-514-1 βαστάσασα ⁸²³

mvp-comment-514-2 δυσφηυῶ μὲν οὔ ⁸²⁴ οὔ ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-515-1 νῦν θ’ ὁμοίως καὶ τότ’ ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-515-2 μή του ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-515-3 ἀγλάϊσμα ⁸²⁸

mvp-comment-515-4 911 f. The elliptical πῶς γὰρ ⁸²⁹ ᾗ γε ⁸³⁰ μηδὲ ⁸³¹ πρὸς θεοὺς ⁸³²

mvp-comment-515-5 ἀκλαύστῳ ⁸³³

mvp-comment-516-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-517-1 οὔτε δρῶσ’ ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁸³⁵

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 ⁸³⁶ δρῶσα ⁸³⁷

mvp-comment-517-4 If ἐλάνθαν’ ἄν ⁸³⁸ ἔληθεν ἄν ⁸³⁹

mvp-comment-517-5 915 *

is Dindorf's certain correction of τἀπιτίμια ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-518-1 θάρσυνε ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-518-2 οὐχ αὑτὸς ἀεί ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-519-1 νῷν ἧν ⁸⁴³ δ’ ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-519-2 κῦρος ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-520-1 φεῦ τῆς ἀνοίας ὥς ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-521-1 ὅποι γῆς … φέρει ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-522-1 πῶς δ’ οὐκ ἐγὼ κάτοιδ’ ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-523-1 τἀκείνου … σωτήρια ⁸⁴⁹

mvp-comment-524-1 καὶ ποῦ ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-524-2 ὑπέρχεται ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-525-1 μητρὶ ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-526-1 τὰ πολλὰ ⁸⁵³ πρὸς τάφον ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-527-1 μάλιστ’ ⁸⁵⁵

mvp-comment-527-2 μνημεἶ ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-528-1 ὦ δυστυχής ⁸⁵⁷

mvp-comment-528-2 τοιούσδ’ ⁸⁵⁸

mvp-comment-529-1 ἵν’ ἦμεν ἄτης ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-530-1 λύσεις ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-531-1 οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅ γ’ εἶπον ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-532-1 φερέγγυος ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-533-1 τλῆναι … δρῶσαν ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-534-1 ὠφέλειά γ’ ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-535-1 ὅρα ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-535-2 πόνου … εὐτυχεῖ ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-536-1 ξυνοίσω ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-537-1 ποεῖν ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-538-1 παρουσίαν ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-538-2 καὶ σύ που ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-539-1 λελείμμεθον ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-540-1 θάλλοντ’ ἔτ’ ⁸⁷² βίῳ ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-541-1 πράκτοῤ ⁸⁷⁴

mvp-comment-542-1 εἰς σὲ δὴ βλέπω ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-543-1 κατοκνήσεις ⁸⁷⁶ κατοκνήσῃς ⁸⁷⁷

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 ⁸⁷⁸

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 ⁸⁷⁹

mvp-comment-545-2 βλέψας’ ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-546-1 κτῆσιν ⁸⁸¹ ἐστερημένῃ ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-547-1 ἐς τοσόνδε τοῦ χρόνου ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-548-1 ἄλεκτρα … ἀνυμέναια ⁸⁸⁴

mvp-comment-548-2 γηράσκουσαν ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-549-1 τῶνδε ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-549-2 ὅπως ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-550-1 ἢ κἀμὸν ⁸⁸⁸ πημονὴν ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-551-1 ἐπίσπῃ ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-552-1 εὐσέβειαν … οἴσει ⁸⁹¹ θανόντος ⁸⁹² κάτω ⁸⁹³

mvp-comment-552-2 970 ff. The compound ἐξέφυς ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-552-3 καλεῖ ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-552-4 τὰ χρηστὰ ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-553-1 λόγων γε μὴν εὔκλειαν ⁸⁹⁷ λόγων ⁸⁹⁸

mvp-comment-554-1 ἀστῶν ἢ ξένων ⁸⁹⁹

mvp-comment-554-2 δεξιώσεται ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-555-1 ἴδεσθε ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-556-1 εὖ βεβηκόσιν ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-556-2 ἀφειδήσαντε ⁹⁰³

mvp-comment-556-3 προὐστήτην φόνου ⁹⁰⁴ ἐχθροῖς ⁹⁰⁵ φόνου ⁹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-556-4 981 f. For τούτω … τώδε ⁹⁰⁷ ἑορταῖς ⁹⁰⁸ πανδήμῳ πόλει ⁹⁰⁹ τοι ⁹¹⁰

mvp-comment-557-1 συμπόνει ⁹¹¹ σύγκαμνε ⁹¹²

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 ⁹¹³ ἐμέ ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-557-4 παῦσον ἐκ κακῶν ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-557-5 989 In τοῖς καλῶς πεφυκόσιν ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-558-1 ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ⁹¹⁷ καὶ κλύοντι ⁹¹⁸ σύμμαχος ⁹¹⁹

mvp-comment-558-2 993 For the place of μὴ ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-558-3 ἐσῴζετ’ ⁹²¹

mvp-comment-559-1 ἐμβλέψασα ⁹²² θράσος … ὁπλίζει ⁹²³

mvp-comment-560-1 εἰσορᾷς ⁹²⁴

mvp-comment-560-2 γυνὴ μὲν ⁹²⁵

mvp-comment-560-3 σθένεις δ’ ἔλασσον … χερί ⁹²⁶

mvp-comment-561-1 ἀπορρεῖ ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-561-2 κἀπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεται ⁹²⁸

mvp-comment-562-1 τοιοῦτον ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-562-2 ἄλυπος ἄτης ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-563-1 κτησώμεθ’ ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-564-1 λύει ⁹³² ἡμᾶς ⁹³³ ἡμῖν ⁹³⁴

mvp-comment-564-2 δυσκλεῶς θανεῖν ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-565-1 οὐ γἀρ θανεῖν ⁹³⁶ γὰρ ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-566-1 κἀξερημῶσαι γένος ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-567-1 ἄρρητα … κἀτελῆ ⁹³⁹ σοι ⁹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-568-1 ἀλλὰ τῷ χρόνῳ ποτέ ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-569-1 The difference between πείθου ⁹⁴² πιθοῦ ⁹⁴³

mvp-comment-570-1 καλῶς δ’ ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-571-1 αὐτόχειρί μοι ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-571-2 μόνῃ τε ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-571-3 οὐ γὰρ δὴ ⁹⁴⁷ γε ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-571-4 κενόν ⁹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-572-1 εἴθ’ ὤφελες ⁹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-572-2 πᾶν γὰρ ἂν κατειργάσω ⁹⁵¹

mvp-comment-573-1 φύσιν γε ⁹⁵² τότε ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-574-1 ὡς οὐχὶ συνδράσουσα ⁹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-574-2 νουθετεῖς ⁹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-575-1 εἰκὸς γὰρ ⁹⁵⁶ ἐγχειροῦντα ⁹⁵⁷ πράσσειν ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-576-1 ζηλῶ ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-577-1 ἀνέξομαι ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-578-1 μὴ πάθῃς τόδε ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-579-1 τὸ κρῖναι ⁹⁶² μακρὸς ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-579-2 χὡ λοιπὸς χρόνος ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-580-1 μητρὶ … σῇ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-581-1 οὐδ’ αὖ ⁹⁶⁶ οὐδ’ ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-581-2 ἔχθος ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-582-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν … γ’ ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-582-2 οἷ … ἀτιμίας ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-583-1 ἀτιμίας μὲν οὔ ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-584-1 τῷ σῷ δικαίῳ ⁹⁷² δῆτ’ ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-585-1 ἦ δεινὸν ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-585-2 εὖ λέγουσαν ⁹⁷⁵ ἐξαμαρτάνειν ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-586-1 ᾧ σὺ πρόσκεισαι κακῷ ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-587-1 τί δ); οὐ δοκῶ σοι ⁹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-588-1 εἰ ποήσεις ⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-589-1 καὶ μὴν ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-590-1 βουλεύσει πάλιν ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-591-1 φρονεῖν ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-592-1 ταῦτα ⁹⁸³ νεωστί ⁹⁸⁴ ι ⁹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-593-1 τολμᾷς ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-594-1 οὔ σοι μὴ μεθέψομαι ⁹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-595-1 καὶ τὸ θηρᾶσθαι κενά ⁹⁸⁸ καὶ ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-595-2 κενά ⁹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-596-1 ὅταν γὰρ ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-596-2 βεβήκῃς ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-597-1 ἄνωθεν ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-597-2 οἰωνοὺς ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-598-1 ἐσορώμενοι ⁹⁹⁵ ἀφ’ ὧν ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-599-1 εὕρωσι ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-599-2 ἐπ’ ἴσας ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-600-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰν ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-601-1 τὰν οὐρανίαν Θέμιν ¹⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-602-1 ἀπόνητοι ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-603-1 χθονία ¹⁰⁰² βροτοῖσι ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-603-2 φάμα ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-603-3 Some write Φάμα ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-604-1 κατά … βόασον ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-604-2 μοι ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-605-1 Ἀτρείδαις ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-605-2 ἀχόρευτα ¹⁰⁰⁹ ὀνείδη ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-606-1 νοσεῖ ¹⁰¹¹ δή ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-607-1 τὰ δὲ πρὸς τέκνων ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-607-2 διπλῆ φύλοπις ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-607-3 οὐκέτ’ ἐξισοῦται ¹⁰¹⁵ φιλοτασίῳ διαίτᾳ ¹⁰¹⁶

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 ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-609-1 Ἠλέκτρα, †τὸν ἀεὶ πατρὸς ¹⁰¹⁸

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 ¹⁰¹⁹ πατρὸς ¹⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-609-3 Far the best conjecture is Heath's, ἁ παῖς, οἶτον ἀεὶ πατρὸς ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-610-1 πάνδυρτος ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-611-1 οὔτε … τε ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-611-2 τὸ … μὴ βλέπειν ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-612-1 διδύμαν … Ἐρινύν ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-613-1 τίς ἂν εὔπατρις ¹⁰²⁶

mvp-comment-614-1 οὐδεὶς τῶν ἀγαθῶν <γὰρ> ¹⁰²⁷ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-615-1 ζῶν κακῶς ¹⁰²⁹

mvp-comment-615-2 νώνυμος ¹⁰³⁰

mvp-comment-616-1 πάγκλαυτον αἰῶνα κοινὸν ¹⁰³¹

mvp-comment-616-2 εἵλου ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-617-1 τὸ μὴ καλὸν καθοπλίσασα ¹⁰³³ ἀπολακτίσασα ¹⁰³⁴

mvp-comment-617-2 If καθοπλίσασα ¹⁰³⁵

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 ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-618-2 ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-619-1 καθύπερθεν ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-619-2 τεῶν ¹⁰³⁹ τῶν ¹⁰⁴⁰ τοσόνδ’ ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-620-1 ὑπόχειρ ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-621-1 μοίρᾳ … οὐκ ἐν ἐσθλᾷ βεβῶσαν ¹⁰⁴³

mvp-comment-622-1 μέγιστα … νόμιμα ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-622-2 ἔβλαστε ¹⁰⁴⁵

mvp-comment-622-3 τῶνδε φερομέναν ἄριστα ¹⁰⁴⁶ τῶνδε ¹⁰⁴⁷

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 ¹⁰⁴⁸ Διὸς ¹⁰⁴⁹ Ζηνὸς ¹⁰⁵⁰

mvp-comment-624-1 εἰσηκούσαμεν ¹⁰⁵¹

mvp-comment-624-2 ὀρθῶς θ’ ¹⁰⁵² δ’ ¹⁰⁵³ θ’ ¹⁰⁵⁴ τε ¹⁰⁵⁵ δέ ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-624-3 ἔνθα ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-625-1 Αἴγισθον ¹⁰⁵⁸ ᾤκηκεν ¹⁰⁵⁹

mvp-comment-626-1 ἀλλ’ ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-626-2 χὡ φράσας ¹⁰⁶¹

mvp-comment-626-3 ἀζήμιος ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-627-1 τίς … φράσειεν ἄν ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-627-2 ποθεινὴν ¹⁰⁶⁴

mvp-comment-627-3 κοινόπουν ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-628-1 τὸν ἄγχιστον ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-629-1 ἴθ’, ὦ γύναι ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-630-1 οὐ δή ποθ’ ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-631-1 τὴν σὴν κληδόν’ ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-631-2 Στρόφιος ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-632-1 φέροντες ¹⁰⁷¹ κομίζομεν ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-633-1 τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖν’ ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-633-2 πρόχειρον ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-633-3 ἄχθος ¹⁰⁷⁵

mvp-comment-634-1 κέκευθεν ¹⁰⁷⁶

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

.

mvp-comment-635-1 δότε ¹⁰⁷⁷ ἥτις ἐστί ¹⁰⁷⁸

mvp-comment-635-2 ἐπαιτεῖται ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-635-3 πρὸς αἵματος ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-635-4 φύσιν ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-636-1 ψυχῆς Ὀρέστου λοιπόν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-636-2 ἀπ’ ἐλπίδων ¹⁰⁸³

mvp-comment-636-3 Then οὐχ ὧνπερ ¹⁰⁸⁴

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 ¹⁰⁸⁵ οὐχ ὥσπερ ¹⁰⁸⁶

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 ¹⁰⁸⁷

mvp-comment-637-2 οὐδὲν ὄντα ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-637-3 βαστάζω ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-637-4 λαμπρὸν ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-638-1 ὡς ὤφελον ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-638-2 The v.l. ὤφελες ¹⁰⁹² κλέψασα ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-638-3 τοῖνδε ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-638-4 κἀνασώσασθαι ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-638-5 φόνου ¹⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-639-1 ὅπως … ἔκεισο ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-639-2 τύμβου πατρῴου ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-640-1 φυγὰς ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-641-1 ἐν ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-641-2 φίλαισι ¹¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-642-1 λουτροῖς σ’ ἐκόσμης’ ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-643-1 ἄθλιον βάρος ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-644-1 ἐν ξέναισι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς ¹¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-644-2 σμικρὸς … ὄγκος ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-645-1 τῆς ἐμῆς … τρ. ἀνωφελήτου ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-645-2 παρέσχον ¹¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-646-1 ἢ κἀμοῦ ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-646-2 μητρὸς … φίλος ¹¹⁰⁹

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 ¹¹¹⁰ ἦσαν ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-647-2 ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τροφός ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-648-1 ἀδελφὴ σοὶ ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-648-2 προσηυδώμην ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-649-1 ἐκλέλοιπε ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-649-2 θανόντι ¹¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-649-3 συναρπάσας ¹¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-649-4 θύελλ’ ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-650-1 τέθνηκ’ ἐγὼ σοί ¹¹¹⁹ σοί ¹¹²⁰ τέθνηκ’ ἐγώ σοι ¹¹²¹

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 ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-651-1 μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-651-2 ἧς ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-651-3 1160—

mvp-comment-652-1 οἴμοι μοί ¹¹²⁵

mvp-comment-653-1 κελεύθους ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-653-2 ἀπώλεσας ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-653-3 δῆτ’ ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-654-1 τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μ’ ¹¹²⁹

mvp-comment-654-2 τὴν μηδὲν ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-654-3 τὸ μηδὲν ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-655-1 μετεῖχον τῶν ἴσων ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-655-2 μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι ¹¹³³

mvp-comment-656-1 τοὺς ¹¹³⁴ θανόντας ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-657-1 θνητοῦ ¹¹³⁶ θνητὸς ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-657-2 φρόνει ¹¹³⁸

mvp-comment-658-1 πᾶσιν γὰρ ἡμῖν ¹¹³⁹ τοῦτ’ ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-659-1 φεῦ φεῦ, τί λέξω ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-659-2 λόγων ¹¹⁴² ποῖ ¹¹⁴³ ἀμηχανῶν ¹¹⁴⁴

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 ¹¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-661-1 κλεινὸν ¹¹⁴⁶

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’ ¹¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-663-1 ταλαίνης ¹¹⁴⁸ συμφορᾶς ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-664-1 οὐ ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-665-1 ἀτίμως ¹¹⁵¹ κἀθέως ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-666-1 ἢ )μὲ ¹¹⁵³

mvp-comment-666-2 δυσφημεῖς ¹¹⁵⁴ ἄλλην ¹¹⁵⁵ ξένε ¹¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-667-1 ἀνύμφου ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-667-2 τροφῆς ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-668-1 τί δή ποτ’ ¹¹⁵⁹ μοι ¹¹⁶⁰ ἐπισκοπῶν ¹¹⁶¹ τί ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-669-1 ἐν τῷ … τῶν εἰρημένων ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-670-1 ὁρῶν σὲ ¹¹⁶⁴ σὲ ¹¹⁶⁵ σε ¹¹⁶⁶ τῶν ἐμῶν ¹¹⁶⁷ σέ ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-670-2 ἐμπρέπουσαν ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-671-1 πόθεν ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-672-1 εἶτα ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-672-2 δουλεύω ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-673-1 ἀνάγκῃ … προτρέπει ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-674-1 ἐξισοῖ ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-675-1 χερσὶν ¹¹⁷⁵ λύμη βίου ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-676-1 οὑπαρήξων ¹¹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-677-1 προὔθηκας ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-678-1 ποτέ ¹¹⁷⁹ ἐμέ ¹¹⁸⁰ νύν μ’ ¹¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-679-1 τοῖσι σοῖς ¹¹⁸² τοῖς ἴσοις ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-679-2 The word ξυγγενὴς ¹¹⁸⁴ τοῖσι σοῖς ¹¹⁸⁵ τοῖς ἴσοις ¹¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-680-1 τὸ τῶνδε ¹¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-681-1 νυν ¹¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-682-1 πιθοῦ ¹¹⁸⁹ πείθου ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-683-1 πρὸς γενείου ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-683-2 The reading of the MSS., μ<*> )ξέλη ¹¹⁹² μ’ ἐξέλῃ ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-683-3 ἐξέλῃ ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-683-4 τὰ φίλτατα ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-684-1 οὐ φήμ’ ἐάσειν ¹¹⁹⁶

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 ¹¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-685-1 εἰ στερήσομαι ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-686-1 ὦ φίλτατον φῶς ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-687-1 ὦ φθέγμ’ ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-687-2 μηκέτ’ ἄλλοθεν πύθῃ ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-688-1 ἔχω … ἔχοις ἀεί ¹²⁰²

mvp-comment-689-1 πολίτιδες ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-690-1 μηχαναῖσι ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-690-2 σεσωσμένον ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-691-1 συμφοραῖσι ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-691-2 γεγηθὸς … δάκρυον ¹²⁰⁷

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 ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-694-1 ἀρτίως ¹²⁰⁹

mvp-comment-694-2 οὓς ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-694-3 ἐχρήζετε ¹²¹¹

mvp-comment-695-1 σῖγ’ ἔχουσα ¹²¹²

mvp-comment-696-1 ἀλλ’ οὐ μὰ ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-696-2 τὴν ἄδμητον ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-696-3 Ἄρτεμιν ¹²¹⁵

mvp-comment-697-1 τόδε μὲν … ὂν ἀεί ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-697-2 περισσὸν ἄχθος ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-697-3 ἔνδον … ὂν ἀεί ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-698-1 γε μὲν δὴ ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-698-2 Ἄρης ¹²²⁰

mvp-comment-698-3 εὖ δ’ ἔξοισθα ¹²²¹

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀνέφελον … κακόν ¹²²²

mvp-comment-699-2 The author of the scholium on 1245 read ἐνέβαλες ¹²²³ ἐπέβαλες ¹²²⁴ ὑπέβαλες ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-699-3 καταλύσιμον ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-699-4 λησόμενον ¹²²⁷

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’ ¹²²⁸ καὶ ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-700-2 παρουσία ¹²³⁰ φράζῃ ¹²³¹ ἔργων τῶνδε ¹²³²

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 ¹²³³ φράζῃ ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-701-1 ὁ πᾶς … χρόνος ¹²³⁵ παρὼν ¹²³⁶ δίκᾳ ¹²³⁷ ἐννέπειν ¹²³⁸ πρέποι ¹²³⁹

mvp-comment-701-2 μόλις γὰρ ¹²⁴⁰ ἔσχον ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-702-1 σῴζου τόδε ¹²⁴²

mvp-comment-703-1 μακρὰν … λέγειν ¹²⁴³

mvp-comment-704-1 τίς οὖν ¹²⁴⁴ ἀξίαν ¹²⁴⁵ σοῦ πεφηνότος ¹²⁴⁶ λόγων ¹²⁴⁷ μεταβάλοιτ’ ¹²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-704-2 <*>δε ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-704-3 1264 After τότ’ εἶδες ¹²⁵⁰ ὅτε ¹²⁵¹ εὖτε ¹²⁵² ὅτε ¹²⁵³ θεοὶ ¹²⁵⁴ ὅτε ¹²⁵⁵ τότ’ ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-704-4 ἐπώτρυναν ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-705-1 χάριτος ¹²⁵⁸

mvp-comment-705-2 ἐπόρισεν ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-706-1 δαιμόνιον ¹²⁶⁰

mvp-comment-706-2 τίθημ’ ¹²⁶¹

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 ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-708-1 ὁδὸν … φανῆναι ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-709-1 τί μὴ ποήσω ¹²⁶⁴

mvp-comment-710-1 μή μ’ ἀποστερήσῃς … ἁδονὰν ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-710-2 μεθέσθαι ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-711-1 ξυναινεῖς ¹²⁶⁷

mvp-comment-711-2 τί μὴν οὔ ¹²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-712-1 ὦ φίλαι ¹²⁶⁹ ὦ φίλ’, ὅτ’ ¹²⁷⁰ φίλαι ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-712-2 αὐδάν ¹²⁷² οὐδ’ ἂν ἤλπις’ ¹²⁷³

mvp-comment-712-3 1283 f. There can be no doubt that something has been lost before ἔσχον ¹²⁷⁴ οὐδ’ ἂν ¹²⁷⁵ ὁρμὰν ¹²⁷⁶

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 ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-712-7 οὐδ’ ἂν ἔσχον ¹²⁷⁸ ἄναυδον ¹²⁷⁹

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

mvp-comment-713-1 τάλαινα ¹²⁸⁰

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 ¹²⁸¹

mvp-comment-715-1 καὶ μήτε μήτηρ ¹²⁸²

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 ¹²⁸³ δόμων ¹²⁸⁴ ἀντλεῖ, τὰ δ’ ἐκχεῖ ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-716-2 ἐκχεῖ ¹²⁸⁶ διασπείρει μάτην ¹²⁸⁷ ἀντλεῖ ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-717-1 χρόνου … καιρὸν ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-717-2 ἐξείργοι ¹²⁹⁰

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 ¹²⁹¹ κεκρυμμένοι ¹²⁹² γελῶντας ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-719-1 οὕτω δὲ ¹²⁹⁴ ὅπως ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-719-2 )πιγνώσεται ¹²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-719-3 νῷν ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-719-4 ἐπελθόντοιν δόμους ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-720-1 μάτην ¹²⁹⁹ μὴ ¹³⁰⁰ τῇ ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-720-2 εὐτυχησωμεν ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-721-1 καὶ σοὶ ¹³⁰³

mvp-comment-721-2 ὧδ’ … τῇδε ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-721-3 τοὐμὸν ¹³⁰⁵ φίλον ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-722-1 κοὐκ ἐμὰς ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-723-1 κοὐδ’ ¹³⁰⁸ βραχὺ ¹³⁰⁹ καὶ ¹³¹⁰ λυπήσασα ¹³¹¹ δεξαίμην ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-724-1 ὑπηρετοίην ¹³¹³ ὑπηρετοίμην ¹³¹⁴ δαίμονι ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-725-1 τἀνθένδε ¹³¹⁶

mvp-comment-726-1 στέγας ¹³¹⁷ οἴκοις ¹³¹⁸

mvp-comment-726-2 δείσῃς … ὡς … ὄψεται ¹³¹⁹

mvp-comment-727-1 ἐντέτηκε ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-728-1 χαρᾷ ¹³²¹ χαρᾶς ¹³²² δακρυρροοῦσα ¹³²³

mvp-comment-729-1 ἥτις ¹³²⁴

mvp-comment-729-2 ἐσεῖδον ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-729-3 ᾶσκοπα ¹³²⁶

mvp-comment-730-1 ὅτε ¹³²⁷

mvp-comment-730-2 τοιαύτην ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-730-3 ὥς σοι ¹³²⁹ ὡς σοὶ ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-731-1 οὐκ ἂν δυοῖν ἥμαρτον ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-732-1 σιγᾶν … χωροῦντος ¹³³²

mvp-comment-732-2 ἐπῄνες’ ¹³³³

mvp-comment-732-3 ἐπ’ ἐξόδῳ ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-732-4 τῶν ἔνδοθεν ¹³³⁵

mvp-comment-733-1 ἄλλως τε καὶ φέροντες ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-733-2 οἷ’ ἂν … ἀπώσαιτ’ ¹³³⁷

mvp-comment-734-1 τητώμενοι ¹³³⁸

mvp-comment-734-2 παρ’ οὐδὲν ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-735-1 οὐ παρ’ αὐτοῖς ¹³⁴⁰ αὐτοῖς ¹³⁴¹

mvp-comment-736-1 σταθμοῖσι ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-737-1 ὑμὶν … ὑμῶν ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-737-2 τὰ δρώμεν’ ¹³⁴⁴ τὰ σώματα ¹³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-738-1 νῦν δ’ … καὶ νῦν ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-739-1 σὺν χαρᾷ βοῆς ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-740-1 ἀπηλλάχθαι ¹³⁴⁸

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 ¹³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-742-1 ὑπάρχει ¹³⁵⁰ σε … τινά ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-743-1 ὡς ἔοικεν, ὡς τεθν ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-744-1 εἷς τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου … ἀνήρ ¹³⁵³ ἐνθάδε ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-745-1 χαίρουσιν οὖν τούτοισιν ¹³⁵⁵ ἐν ¹³⁵⁶ οὖν ¹³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-746-1 τελουμένων ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-746-2 ὡς δὲ νῦν ἔχει ¹³⁵⁹ τὰ κείνων πάντα καλῶς ¹³⁶⁰ καὶ τὰ μὴ καλῶς ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-747-1 οὐχὶ ξυνίης ¹³⁶²

mvp-comment-747-2 οὐδέ γ’ εἰς θυμὸν φέρω ¹³⁶³ οὐδέ ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-748-1 ποίῳ ¹³⁶⁵ ὅτῳ ¹³⁶⁶ οἶσθα ¹³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-748-2 οὗ … χεροῖν ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-748-3 πέδον ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-748-4 ὑπεξεπέμφθην ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-748-5 σῇ προμηθίᾳ ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-749-1 προσηῦρον πιστὸν ¹³⁷²

mvp-comment-750-1 φῶς ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-751-1 τόνδε κἄμ’ ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-751-2 ἔσωσας ¹³⁷⁵ κεῖνος ¹³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-752-1 ὦ … χεῖρες ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-753-1 οὐδ’ ἔφαινες ¹³⁷⁸ ἀλλά με ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-754-1 ἔργ’ ἔχων ¹³⁸⁰ ἐμοί ¹³⁸¹ με ¹³⁸²

mvp-comment-755-1 πατέρα ¹³⁸³ χαῖῤ, ὦ πάτερ ¹³⁸⁴ πατέρα ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-756-1 τοὺς … ἐν μέσῳ λόγους ¹³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-756-2 The acc. τοὺς … λόγους ¹³⁸⁷ ταῦτα ¹³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-756-3 κυκλοῦνται ¹³⁸⁹ κυκλοῦσι ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-757-1 σφῷν δ’ ἐννέπω γε ¹³⁹¹ γε ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-758-1 τούτοις ¹³⁹³ ἄλλοισι ¹³⁹⁴ σοφωτέροις ¹³⁹⁵ τούτων ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-758-2 Another view is that

in 1369 refers to Aegisthus and his armed followers, while τούτοις ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-759-1 οὐδὲν ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-760-1 πατρῷα ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-760-2 ἕδη ¹⁴⁰⁰ πρόπυλα ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-760-3 προσκύσαντε ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-761-1 ἀφ’ ὧν ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-761-2 ἔχοιμι ¹⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-761-3 λιπαρεῖ ¹⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-761-4 Blaydes and Wecklein read )πέστην ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-762-1 ἐξ οἵων ἔχω ¹⁴⁰⁷ αἰτῶ ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-762-2 1380 I read προπίπτω ¹⁴⁰⁹ προπίτνω ¹⁴¹⁰ ι^ ¹⁴¹¹ ι— ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-763-1 τἀπιτίμια ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-764-1 ἴδεθ’ ¹⁴¹⁴ ὅπου ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-764-2 προνέμεται ¹⁴¹⁶

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

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

mvp-comment-765-1 τὸ δυσέριστον αἷμα ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-765-2 φυσῶν ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-766-1 δωμάτων ὑπόστεγοι ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-767-1 μετάδρομοι … κύνες ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-768-1 ἀμμενεῖ ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-769-1 τοὐμὸν φρενῶν ὄνειρον ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-769-2 αἰωρούμενον ¹⁴²³

mvp-comment-770-1 ἐνέρων … ἀρωγός ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-771-1 ἀρχαιόπλουτα ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-772-1 νεακόνητον αἷμα χειροῖν ἔχων ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-772-2 The bold use of αἷμα ¹⁴²⁷ χειροῖν ἔχων ¹⁴²⁸ αἷμα ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-772-3 If νεάκονητον ¹⁴³⁰ α ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-773-1 ὁ Μαίας δὲ παῖς ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-773-2 Ἑρμῆς σφ’ ἄγει ¹⁴³³ ς ¹⁴³⁴ σφ’ ¹⁴³⁵

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

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

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

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

mvp-comment-775-1 τελοῦσι ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-776-1 τάφον ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-776-2 λέβητα ¹⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-776-3 κοσμεῖ ¹⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-777-1 αἰαῖ· ἰὼ στέγαι ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-778-1 ἀνήκουστα ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-779-1 ἰδού ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-779-2 μάλ’ αὖ ¹⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-780-1 ἐκ σέθεν ¹⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-780-2 ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-780-3 1413 f. The traditional reading φθίνει φθίνει ¹⁴⁴⁶ σε ¹⁴⁴⁷ σοι ¹⁴⁴⁸ μοῖρα καθαμερία ¹⁴⁴⁹ φθίνει ¹⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-780-4 Others explain as follows. (1) Keeping both σε ¹⁴⁵¹ φθίνει φθίνει ¹⁴⁵² σε ¹⁴⁵³ φθίνειν φθίνειν ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-780-5 Nor is the objection to these interpretations merely verbal. They represent the Chorus as deploring that doom of the race which entails yet another deed of bloodshed. But, as Whitelaw well observes, this commits Sophocles to the Aeschylean view of the vengeance ‘as a new crime in the series of crimes’ (Translation, p. 437). The Chorus are in the fullest sympathy with the avengers. They regard the slaying of Clytaemnestra not as a new calamity, but as a welcome retribution: cp. 1434

, and 1508 ff. The words express the feeling of these (1227) that the cause of the house is that of the city. They hail the approaching deliverance of Mycenae from the tyrants. The change of into (cr. n.) is equally rash and infelicitous.

mvp-comment-780-6 1415 f. Cp. Aesch. Ag. 1343

... 1345

mvp-comment-780-7 διπλῆν ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-780-8 εἰ γὰρ Αἰγίσθῳ γ’ ὁμοῦ ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-781-1 τελοῦς ἀραί ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-781-2 οἱ … κείμενοι ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-781-3 ὑπαὶ ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-782-1 παλίρρυτον ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-782-2 ὑπεξαιροῦσι ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-783-1 καὶ μὴν ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-783-2 στάζει θυηλῆς ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-783-3 ψέγειν ¹⁴⁶⁴ λέγειν ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-784-1 κυρεῖτε ¹⁴⁶⁶ κυρεῖ ¹⁴⁶⁷ κυρεῖ δὲ ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-785-1 ἐθέσπισεν ¹⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-786-1 ἐκφοβοῦ … ὡς ¹⁴⁷⁰ λῆμα ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-786-2 After v. 1427 Erfurdt and others suppose the loss of three verses answering to vv. 1404—1406 (

): see note in Appendix on 1398. The context itself, however, does not indicate any lacuna. In a calmer scene, doubtless, we might have looked for some comment from Electra on the announcement that Clytaemnestra is dead. But this is a passage full of excitement and hurrying action. The warning παύσασθε ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-787-1 ἐκ προδήλου ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-787-2 Here, again, it is supposed that we have lost a trimeter, answering to 1409. (Hermann suggests

.) But the context, at least, does not show any gap in the sense.

mvp-comment-788-1 ὦ παῖδες ¹⁴⁷⁴ οὐκ ἄψορρον ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-789-1 ἐφ’ ἡμῖν ¹⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-789-2 Some have thought that the words of Orestes in this v. should be metrically equivalent to those of Clyt. in 1411,

. Nauck, for example, proposes ; This seems, however, a groundless assumption.

mvp-comment-790-1 χωρεῖ γεγηθώς ¹⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-791-1 βᾶτε κατ’ ἀντιθύρων ¹⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-791-2 The word

is known only from the following passages. (1) Od. 16. 159 , describing a position outside of the hut: usually rendered, ‘he stood over against the doorway.’ (2) In Lucian Alex. 16 is the wall opposite to the door of a room; in this wall a second door is made, to admit of a crowd streaming through the room. In Lucian Symp. 8 the sense is the same.

mvp-comment-791-3 Here,

seems to mean, as in the Odyssey, a place close to the doors; probably just inside of them, and (from that point of view) ‘over against them’; a vestibule, or entrance-hall. Cp. 328 . As was a collateral form of ( Etym. Magn. 806. 4, etc.), may have been such a form of . If so, the desirable accus. for could be at once obtained by κατ’ ἀντιθυρῶν’ ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-791-4 βᾶτε κάταντα θυρῶν’ ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-792-1 εὖ θέμενοι ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-792-2 τάδ’ ὡς πάλιν ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-793-1 ᾗ νοεῖς ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-793-2 The ground for giving the words ᾗ νοεῖς ¹⁴⁸⁴ τελοῦμεν ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-794-1 καὶ δὴ βέβηκα ¹⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-795-1 These verses are antistrophic to 1417—1421. δἰ ὠτὸς ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-795-2 ὡς ἠπίως ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-795-3 λαθραῖον ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-796-1 ναυαγίοις ¹⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-797-1 σέ τοι ¹⁴⁹¹ κρίνω ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-798-1 συμφορᾶς ¹⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-798-2 Possibly this is the only ambiguity intended. But

might be genitive of , ‘ the most welcome fortune of my kindred,’— i.e., ‘my brother's return.’ Cp. 1273 | . To intend this as an inner meaning would certainly be quite in the manner of Sophocles; cp. O. T. 337 | .—For other views, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-799-1 φίλης γὰρ προξένου κατήνυσαν ¹⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-800-1 ἦ καὶ ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-800-2 ὡς ἐτητύμως ¹⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-801-1 οὔκ, ἀλλὰ κἀπέδειξαν ¹⁴⁹⁷ οὐ λόγῳ μόνον ¹⁴⁹⁸ οὔκ ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-802-1 πάρεστ’ ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-802-2 ὥστε ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-802-3 κἀμφανῆ μαθεῖν ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-803-1 πάρεστι δῆτα ¹⁵⁰³ δῆτα ¹⁵⁰⁴ καὶ μάλ’ ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-804-1 ἦ πολλὰ χαίρειν μ’ εἶπας ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-804-2 1457 While τυγχάνοι ¹⁵⁰⁷ τυγχάνει ¹⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-805-1 κἀναδεικνύναι πύλας ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-806-1 Μυκηναίοισιν ¹⁵¹⁰ Ἀργείοις ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-806-2 πᾶσιν ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-807-1 ἐλπίσιν … ἀνδρὸς ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-808-1 στόμια ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-808-2 φύσῃ φρένας ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-809-1 καὶ δὴ ¹⁵¹⁶ τἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-809-2 τελεῖται ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-809-3 τῷ … χρόνῳ ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-809-4 συμφέρειν τοῖς κρείσσοσιν ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-809-5 As Electra utters these words, the central doors are opened, and the eccyclema is pushed forward. This was a small and low stage. A corpse is seen upon it, the face and outlines concealed by a covering. Near it stand Orestes and Pylades—the ‘Phocians’ whom Aegisthus seeks. The eccyclema remains displayed to the end, and at v. 1507 Orestes and Pylades go out behind it. So in the Antigone the eccyclema is in view from 1293 to the close, and at 1347 Creon is led off behind it.

mvp-comment-809-6 The corpse here is an effigy, like that of Haemon in Ant. 1261 ff. The deuteragonist, who had played Clytaemnestra, is now playing Orestes.

mvp-comment-810-1 δέδορκα φάσμ’ ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-810-2 The invocation, ὦ Ζεῦ ¹⁵²² φθόνου ¹⁵²³ φάσμα ¹⁵²⁴ δέδορκα ¹⁵²⁵ πεπτωκός ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-810-3 ἔπεστι ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-810-4 νέμεσις ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-810-5 οὐ λέγω ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-810-6 Aegisthus corrects himself with hypocritical piety; it is as if he said, ‘but it is not for me to judge my fellow-mortal.’