Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 1405

ed. Lewis Campbell

ὦ τοῦδʼ ὅμαιμοι παῖδες, ἀλλʼ ὑμεῖς, ἐπεὶ
1405

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

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Editions (1)
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1447-1496 focus
Translations (2)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1397 focus
Wir können deines Ganges uns nicht freu'n mit dir,
Polyneikes; eilig wende dich nunmehr zurück!
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1448-1495 focus

Commentary

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mvp-comment-977-1 τοῦδ’ 1

mvp-comment-977-2 ἀλλ’ 2

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

1405. mvp-comment-743-1 ὦ τοῦδ᾽ ὅμαιμοι παῖδες O my own sisters, daughters of this my father. Against explaining τοῦδε as = ἐμοῦ, it is enough to urge that there is no other instance in Sophocles in which this pronoun stands alone for the first person. In the only two places where it is so used substantively (Tr. 305, τῆσδε, 1012, τῷδε) it is immediately followed by a participle in agreement with it. In ὅμαιμοι there is no reference (as in ὦ σπέρμ᾽ ὅμαιμον, 331) to the incestuous birth, an allusion which, though in character with Oedipus, supr. 328, would not be in character with Polynices here. Cp. infr. 1772: Ant. 512-513.