Sophocles Philoctetes 1432

ed. Lewis Campbell

τόξων ἐμῶν μνημεῖα πρὸς πυρὰν ἐμὴν

Philoctetes. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1445 focus
Du, der willkommenen Ruf mir gesandt
Und endlich erscheint,
1405
Wie freudig gehorch' ich deinem Gebot!

Commentary

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

1432. mvp-comment-944-1 μνημεῖα] Accusative in apposition to κόμιζε: “An act commemorative of my bow.' πυρὰν ἐμήν] It is evident that the high-place on Mount Oeta, where Heracles was supposed to have been glorified, after having been laid upon the pyre, was kept sacred in the time of Sophocles; and, like the place of Oedipus' disappearance, it is imagined to have been a place of worship in heroic times. Hyllus had often stood there sacrificing, Trach. 1192. Perhaps some well-known image of the hero there, with a brazen shield, may have occasioned the expression in supr. 727.