Chorus
Thou hast already 'scaped
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-1189-1 ἀλλ’ 1
mvp-comment-1189-2 ἀποπαύετε 2
mvp-comment-1189-3 Though the neut. pl. πλείω alone is sometimes adverbial, there seems to be no instance of ἐπὶ πλείω as= ἐπὶ πλέον : indeed, such a phrase is hardly conceivable. ἐπὶ must therefore belong to ἐγείρετε : for the tmesis cp. on 1689 .
mvp-comment-1190-1 ἔχει … κῦρος 3
mvp-comment-1190-2 Fr. Ritter rejects the last three verses, as he rejects the choral clausulae of all the other six plays ( Philol. XVII. 422-436 ): cp. O. T. 1524 cr. n. Here, at least, there is not a shadow of ground for the suspicion. It did not require a Sophocles to write vv. 1777-1779 , but the burden of proof rests with those who deny that he wrote them.