Theseus
Your father, virgins, gave me solemn charge
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))
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mvp-comment-1178-1 ἀπεῖπεν 1
mvp-comment-1179-1 μήτ’ ἐπιφωνεῖν … θήκην 2
mvp-comment-1179-2
If
μηδενὶ were substituted for
μηδένα , this would give a much easier sense; but then Theseus must be the subject to
both infinitives:—
mvp-comment-1179-3 θήκην ἱεράν 3
mvp-comment-1180-1 καλῶς 4
mvp-comment-1180-2 ἄλυπον 5
mvp-comment-1181-1 ταῦτ’ οὖν 6
mvp-comment-1181-2 δαίμων 7
mvp-comment-1182-1 πάντ’ ἀΐων 8
mvp-comment-1182-2 Διὸς Ὅρκος 9
1760. mvp-comment-936-1 ἀπεῖπεν ἐμοί i. e. not merely He forbade me to approach, but In what he said to me he forbade all approach.
1762. mvp-comment-937-1 μήτ᾽ ἐπιφωνεῖν.. ἔχει And that no mortal voice should violate the place of holy rest where he is laid. Cp. ἐπιφημίζω.-But qy. μηδενί?
1764. mvp-comment-938-1 καλῶς is to be joined with πράσσοντα, = performing this. Cp. Τr. 579, δόμοις γὰρ ἦν | κείνου θανόντος ἐγκεκλημένον καλῶς: Εl. 793, κἀπεκύρωσεν καλῶς : ib. 1305, οὐ γὰρ ἂν καλῶς | ὑπηρετοίην τῷ παρόντι δαίμονι: Fr. 736, ἐπεὶ πέπρακται πᾶν τὸ τοῦ θεοῦ καλῶς, | χωρῶμεν ἤδη, κ.τ.λ.