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THE 
 
 E L E C T R A 
 
 01" 
 
 SOPHOCLES, 
 
 NOTES, 
 
 THE USB OJ? COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 Bx THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, 
 '7' 
 
 PRESIDENT OF TALE COLLEGE. 
 
 NEW EDITION, EE7ISED. 
 
 BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: 
 JAMES MtfNROE AND COlilPANY. 
 
 1854. 
 

 Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1854, by 
 
 James Munbob akd Company, 
 Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 
 
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 OAUUBIBQE 
 
 BIETCALF AND COMPANr, STBBBOXYPEIIS AND PEIHTEBS. 
 
PEEFACE. 
 
 Three of the Greek tragedies now extant are occupied 
 with the display of divine justice which was made when 
 Orestes slew his father's murderers. These are the Choe- 
 phori of jEschylus, and the Electras of Sophocles and' 
 Euripides. The latter poet has failed in his Electra, and 
 almost burlesqued the subject. He derives some excuse, 
 perhaps, from coming last, and from being obliged, for the 
 sake of novelty, to depart from the poetical form of the 
 <able. But Sophocles was so situated when he wrote his 
 Philoctetes, and yet succeeded to admiration. 
 
 Sophocles was aided in his Electra by the work of his 
 predecessor, as is shown by a number of parallel words and 
 expressions, and by resemblances in the plots. In both 
 plays, Orestes places a lock of hair upon his father's grave : 
 in both, Clytemnestra has a foreboding dream, and sends a 
 libation to the grave of Agamemnon : in both, ^gisthus is 
 away from home until near the catastrophe : in both, Ores- 
 tes brings news of his own death, and, having entered the 
 palace, slays the murderers by guile. But the action of the 
 Choephori is short and simple. No sooner is the libation, 
 already spoken of, poured forth, than Orestes appears and 
 makes known the mission upon which Apollo had sent 
 him ; long and earnest prayers are then oiTered up for his 
 success ; he is encouraged by hearing of his mother's 
 dream, and declares his intention to deceive her by bring- 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 ing news of his own death. This intention he executes ; 
 Clytemnestra receives him as a guest, and sends for her 
 husband that he may confer with and entertain the stran- 
 ger. jEgisthus is slain at the moment of his return ; his 
 wife, hearing the cries, runs from the- women's apartment, 
 and pleads with Orestes in vain for life. After the mur- 
 der, Orestes appears on the stage with the shirt in which 
 Agamemnon had been entangled, excuses the matricide, 
 and feels the first attack of madness caused by the aveng- 
 ing Furies. 
 
 The essential diiference between these two plays lies in 
 the point from which the poets looked at divine justice, and 
 in the views which they entertained of it. ^schylus looks 
 at it, as it is in itself, as an irresistible decree going forth 
 upon its work. Hence the action moves forward without 
 complication or delay. Scarcely has the minister of wrath 
 drank confidence in heaven from prayer, than the death-cry 
 is heard, and all is over. There is no opposition from ene- 
 mies to be overcome, no diversity of feeling among the 
 actors, no alternation of hope and fear. But Sophocles 
 exhibits divine justice as it affects the human mind by its 
 delay, its approach, and its infliction. He calls it down 
 into the sphere of Electra's mind. She represents the im- 
 potence and ignorance of man, when he waits long in vain 
 for the punishment of wickedness, and, in despair of aid/ 
 from heaven, loses faith in divine justice. Meanwhile, 
 though he knows it not, divine justice, at the right moment, 
 deceives the wicked, and malces them sure of impunity. 
 They believe that their success has reached its highest 
 point, and begin to boast; when„in a moment, to use the 
 noble words of jEschylus in the Furies, " Their prow 
 strikes on the rock of justice, and they sink, unwept, un- 
 known." 
 
 The light in which the two poets view divine justice is 
 not the same. In Eschylus, wisdom and vengeance are 
 
PREFACE. V 
 
 discordant powers ; and when Apollo, the agent of Provi- 
 dence, has commanded the punishment of Clytemnestra, 
 the Furies attack Orestes with madness for obeying the 
 god. This strife no longer appears in the Electra, where 
 justice is represented as vengeance guided by wisdom, and 
 Orestes, after the close of his work, is calm and sane, 
 ^schylus makes the Furies, so to speak, personifications of 
 an impulse which wreaks itself upon the violator of natural 
 order, whether he is engaged on the side of justice or not, 
 — of a blind power, which, like the fiery furnace in Scrip- 
 ture, burns the ministers of the highest authority ; Sopho- 
 cles places the whole plot in the hands of Divine Intelli- 
 gence, leaves the Furies but a very subordinate part, and 
 does not imagine that any atonement is demanded from 
 Orestes for a deed which the god has justified. 
 
 It accords with the distinctive character of this tragedy, 
 that Electra plays the principal part. Her lonely attitude 
 at first, as the sole friend of the right cause, her hatred of 
 her father's murderers, her complete despair whenjhe death 
 of Orestes is announced, her resolution to become herself 
 the minister of divine wrath, her joy when Orestes at length 
 appears, her cooperation at last, are situations or states of 
 mind into which she naturally falls, as in her human igno- 
 rance she beholds the movements of divine justice. Her 
 peculiar traits of character are much like those of Antig- 
 one, only that from the nature of her situation the passive 
 predominates over the active, and her feelings, finding no 
 vent in deeds, have acquired an unusual degree of bitter- 
 ness. Her sister Chrysothemis contrasts with her, as Is- 
 mene with Antigone. 
 
 The action of divine justice i^tself is seen only at inter- 
 vals until the close. In the Prologue, it reveals its plan foi 
 the murder. Afterwards it gives a premonition of its ap- 
 proach by the dream sent to Clytemnestra. It then de- 
 s^eives her by a feigned narrative of the death of Orestes. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Having thus produced a fatal security in the wicked, it 
 reveals its purpose to the oppressed, first, by the lock of 
 hair found at the grave of Agamemnon, and then by the 
 presence of Orestes, and the disclosure of the plot. After 
 still further lulling its enemies asleep by the arrival of the 
 urn which purports to hold the ashes of Orestes, it executes 
 its purpose in the same covert manner in which it had 
 moved on before, and the last victim, jEgisthus, falls into 
 the snare amid his very threats and boasts of triumph. 
 
 The range of incidents in this drama is quite narrow. 
 Orestes, coming to Mycense as a minister of divine wrath, 
 forms a plot to ensnare the murderers of his father, based 
 on the news of his own death. Thus vengeance does its 
 work by seeming to have given it up. Amid the despair 
 of Electra and the security of Clytemnestra, the bolt of 
 retribution is hurled. The plot consists of preparations for 
 the triumph of justice, and the execution passes onward 
 rapidly at the end. 
 
 In this last point the drama wears somewhat of a modem 
 character. Many Greek plays continue, after the action 
 is closed, to unfold the feelings of the characters. Here, 
 however, the feeling precedes, being called forth, as we 
 have said, by the delay of justice, and the crowning action 
 is compressed into the last hundred lines. We may com- 
 pare it to a thunder-cloud, which, slowly and silently rising 
 in the sky, seems to have scattered its electric power, when 
 suddenly the lightning bursts from it the more awful for the 
 delay, and the storm sweeps over the earth. 
 
 It will not be thought an objection to this drama, that the 
 spectator knows beforehand what is hidden from the char- 
 acters. If it wants the effect of surprise, if the denouement 
 is in a degree anticipated, the spectator gains, on the other 
 hand, by being admitted to the secrets of divine justice ; he 
 sympathizes with the hopeless Electra without being hope- 
 less, and enjoys the delusion of her mother and jEgisthus 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Vll 
 
 without being deceived. From a higher level he looks 
 down on ignorant mortals, as they despair and complain, or 
 as they feel secure in sin ; and he walks in the train of 
 justice at the last to honor its triumph. 
 
 This drama, as we have said, not being rich in incident, 
 has chiefly a subjective interest, and is properly called 
 Electra, not Orestes, from the correct tact of the poet in 
 making hers the principal part. In carrying out his plan, 
 the poet puts a depth of feeling into the principal character, 
 and presents to us a succession of contrasts in a way which 
 indicates the highest skill. We cannot help feeling that 
 this plot could not have been managed better, and that the 
 wonderful art of Sophocles appears nowhere to more ad 
 vantage. What can be finer than the scene where Electra 
 gives up all for lost, and, holding the supposed ashes of hei 
 last hope in her hands, indulges her passionate despair. 
 But the whole of the close, — the recognition, the exulting 
 joy, which almost forgets the work of death, the dreadful 
 voices of the slain queen from within, the double meanings 
 with which jEgisthus is mocked, and his sudden discovery 
 of the snare set for him, — all this is among the most 
 masterly passages of ancient tragedy. Indeed, the whole 
 play is a series of contrasts. At first we see Electra's 
 grief contrasted with the soberer tone of the affectionate 
 Chorus ; then the two sisters widely differing in courage, 
 judgment, and hope ; then Electra and her mother in their 
 marked opposition ; then the alarm of the queen inspired 
 by the night-vision, succeeded by her joy at the news of 
 Orestes's death ; then the feelings of the mother and the 
 murderess contending for a moment ; * then the hopes of 
 
 * It appears to us that Schneidewin, in his excellent recent edition, 
 takes an inadequate view of the poet's art, when he explains vv. 766 - 
 768 as the utterance of hypocrisy, desirous to make the beat appearance 
 possible before the other characters upon the stage. K this view were 
 not set aside by the obvious consideration, that a great poet like Sopho- 
 cles must have been aware that crime of high degree and dread of 
 
Vlll PKEFACE. 
 
 the amiable Chrysothemis, suddenly cast down ; then Elec- 
 tra's heroic resolve to slay jEgisthus, opposed by her timid 
 and prudent sister, and the consequent strife mounting into 
 bitterness of feeling on Electra's part ; then the contrast 
 between Electra's prostrate despair and her feelings after 
 the recognition ; — these, with the sudden death of Clytem- 
 nestra at the moment of her entire security, and the haughty 
 command of ^gisthus to open thq gates and show the 
 corpse of Orestes to the ill-affected, succeeded by his cry, 
 o"/iot TL Xeicrcra), are SO many waves of feeling that rise and 
 fall in succession through the drama, and render it, with 
 all its poverty of outward incidents, one of the most stirring 
 of all ancient plots. Over all these contrasts, occasioned 
 by difference of judgments or temperaments or interests, as 
 well as by human ignorance, a divine plan moves onward 
 calm and slow, until it leaps of a sudden upon its victims. 
 
 A word respecting the text and the notes of this edition. 
 The text given by the editor in 1837 followed Hermann's 
 second edition more nearly than any other. In the revision 
 made in 1841, a few changes were introduced into the text, 
 and in the present revised edition, others still. The most 
 important of these are mentioned in the notes. But we 
 must refer the critical scholar to Dindorf's Oxford edition, 
 and other helps, if he would pass judgment on our readings. 
 The notes and the exhibition of the metres are thoroughly 
 revised, and it is hoped improved, in this edition. In this 
 revision we have been much aided by Schneidewin's Elec- 
 tra, published the present year. 
 
 Yale College, New Haven, 
 November 18, 1853. 
 
 vengeance could not prevent a momentary gush of maternal love, how- 
 ever selfisli cafculation might after a little regain its sway over the 
 soul ; it certainly is set aside by this, that in the verses referred to 
 there is too much intermixture of satisfaction at the news of Orestes's 
 death, and too little parade of grief, to make out a case of hypocrisy. 
 
2 000 KAEOTi: HAEKTPA. 
 
TA TOT JPAMAT02 nPOSSinA. 
 
 nAJJAFJirO^. XPT200EMIS. 
 
 0PE2TH2. KATTAIMNIISrPA. 
 
 ILAEKTPA. AinseOS. 
 X0P02. 
 
 rno@E2i2. 
 
 Tioxiijai (ads' jQOcpsvs dsixvvg Ogiaz^ id iv Aqyti. fiixQo* 
 yoLQ avzbv ovja xXsipnaa ij HXtxrga, ^vlxa o nartjg laqxi^STO, 
 didmxe t(b Tgoq>st, delaaaa fiij xal avzov xTSiraiair. 6 di vniii- 
 &ETO ttvrov slg 9a>xlSa ngog tbv Stgotpiov ' rvv di ficTa. li'xnaiv -I -( 4 
 FT)) inavimv avv avia ngog to "Agyog Sdxvvaiv avxia t« it 
 "Agysi. 
 
 'H axrjvij rov SgafiaToq vnoxuxai ir "Agyii. 6 de x^Qo? 
 avvsaTtjxiv e| imx<i>gia>v nag&evoiv. TtgoXoyi^si Si o naiSaybyyo^ 
 Ogiazov. 
 
HAEKTPA. 
 
 nAi/tATSiros. 
 
 a 
 
 'Ji TOW ar§aTr(yq6avxo? iv Tgoici nozi 
 
 ' Ayafj.i[.ivov.os Ttat, vvv ixeiv' s^sdti dot 
 
 nagovTi XsvaOBiv, av ug66vf.ios ^tf^' dsL 
 
 TO ydg TtaXaiov "Agyog ovnodsi? toSs, 
 
 xrj? oidTgonXijj'os aXao? 'Ivd^ov xogtfs ' » 
 
 ai»Tjy 5', 'Ogidja, tov Xvxoxtovov&sov 
 
 dyogd Avxetos • ov^ dgiaregas 5' ods 
 
 "Hga? 6 xXeivos vaos • oT S' ixdvofisv, 
 
 (pddxsiv Mvxrfva? xds noXv^^gveov? ogdv, 
 
 TtoXvipdogov xs Safid UsXojtiScov xods^' 10 
 
 odsv OS Ttaxgoe ix <p6vcov iyd noxE, ^'^ 
 
 Ttgos oris ofiaifiov xal xaaiyvrixi^s ,Xa6tov, 
 
 rjveyxa. xd^iamaa xd^s6geyjd[itfv 
 
 xoffovS' is rjSrjs, Ttaxgl xifiagov cpovov, 
 
 vvv ovv, ^Ogiaxa xal av qjiXxaxs ^ivov 15 
 
 UvXdSij, xi xgifj Sgdv iv xd^si ^ovXsvxiov ' 
 
 as rfijuy ijSrf Xafxngov -^Xiov aiXa.s 
 
 iaa xivst (pOeyfidx^ ogvidav oa<pii, '"'''l'^»- 
 
 (liXaivd x' daxgcav ixXiXomav evtpgovij. 
 
4 HO^OKAEOrS 
 
 Ttglv ovv Tiv' dvSgav i^oSomogsiv mtyns, 20 
 
 ^vvaitieTOv Xoyoiaiv • as ivravd', iva, "^h' 
 ^^oim sat'' h' oxvsip xaigos, aAA' egycav dxurf. fr"<-;- 
 
 OPESTTIS. 
 
 a cpilrax' dvSgcov rcgonwoXav, Ssfioi aaq>ri 
 (Sijfista (paivsis iadkog sis ■^(ids ysyas.' 
 Sajtig ydg 'irtnos svysv^s, x&v ^ ykgav, 25 
 
 Iv xoiOL SeivoLS d'Vfiov ovx djtaXsasv, 
 «AA' ogOov oi? latffatv, aaavrcos 8s av ^°- 
 ^[ids t' oTgTiJvii? xdihos iv Ttgdto't^ sitsi. 
 rniydg toc p,ii^ SSfeCvrO, SrfXeicia • (Sv 8s 
 o^sidv dxoi^v TOfs ifiois X6yoie 8i8oi/s, 30 
 
 SI uri Tt xacgav tvy^dva, (isdagfiottav. ^y-r 
 sya ydg ■^vl}^' ixop.l^i' td JIv&txof' 
 fiavrsiov, as fiddoifjc' ota tgoita nargdi '"' 
 8Lxas dgoCinft^ taV ^OPsUodindv ndga, 
 Xgjf [Aoi TotadB' ai 0oi6oe, av itsvasi rdx<x • 35 
 daxsvSv avrSv dff7ti8toi> ti xal &tgutov, 
 Sokoiai xXiipai %stg6s ivBixovs atpayds. ^yi.t^ 
 s or' ovv Toi6v8s xgrfafi^v siarfxa^aafisv, 
 av fisv fiokav, oxav as icaigos siady^, 
 Sofxav s<Sa xav8^, tadi ndv to Sg^sVWf^ 40 
 
 OTtas dv sl8coe ^(itv dyysi?.ifs (Sacprj. ^ 
 av ydg <is fiVj yijga xs xal %g6vm (JtaxoS 
 yvtSg\ovd* VTtOTtxsvaovffiv ^8^ ■^digfiivov.htht-it,,^^ 
 Xoya 8s xga xoia8', oxi ^iv&s fiiv sT 
 0c3X£ve, Ttag' dt'tgds ^avoxias ■^xav a /dgi 4& 
 (isyihxos uvtati xvy^^dvsi Sogv^ivciv. sh 
 
HAEKTPA. 5 
 
 S.yytWt 8' Sq>i^, Ttgoaxidsts, odovvsxa 
 
 Tsavrfx Ugsarrjs s§ avayxaias Tv^^ifs, 
 
 adXoKSi Hvdixoiatv ix rgo^tf^dTCOv 
 
 SicpQtav xvXiadsis ' SS' 6 (ivOo? stixdxa. 50 
 
 rfiisLS Si Ttaxgos r-^fiSov, m Iqct'ero/^" 
 
 koiSats T£ ngaxov xa.1 xagaxofiois %XiSais" 
 
 Gxiyjavxss, sTr'arpoggov ■^^ofisv ndXiv, 
 
 xvjtcofia ^aXxoTtksvgov ^gfisvoi^sgoiv, 
 
 S xal Civ dd^voi? oiodd rtov xsxgvfifiivov,^ 55 
 
 OTtcos, koya xXijtxovxss, ffSsZavwdxiv 
 
 (psgofiEv avrotff, xovfiov cos s'ggsi Siftas 
 
 (pkoyusxov ^Srf xal xaxrjvdgaxafiivov. 
 
 xi ydg (is Xvnsi xovd ', oxav Xdya davcov 
 
 sgyoiat (Jada, xd^ivsyxtofiai xXeos ; 60 
 
 8oxa fiiv ovSsv gri^a avv xsgSsi xaxov.'""' 
 
 ^Sff ydg stSov noXXdxL? xal xovs docpovs 
 
 Xdya (idxrfv dvtjtixavxas • sTd ', oxav dofiovs 
 
 tXdcaaiv avOis, ixxsxifinvxai nXiov. 
 
 COS xafi sjtav^a xrjaos xrfs tprffirfs anp 65 
 
 Ss8ogx6x^, i^&gois, dotxgov as, Xd(i\f)siv txi. 
 
 dXX^, S Ttaxgda yij dsoi z' iy^agioi^ '' 
 
 Si^aodi fi ' svxvxovvxa xaioSe xaTs 68oisi 
 
 Gv x', S TtaxgSov Safjia, • gov ydg eg^Ofiai 
 
 8cxif xadagxrjs, rrgos dsSv agfiTjfisvos • 70 
 
 xat fii'i fi' dxifiov xrJG8' anoaxsiXrfxs yijs, 
 
 dXX' dg%S7tXdvxov xal xaxaaxdxrfv 86(j.cav. 
 
 sigrixa [liv vvv xavxa • aol 8' ij8rf, ysgov, 
 
 xo Gov [laXkada ^dvxi cpgovg^aat xgsos. " 
 
6 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 vca 8^ s^ifisv • xaigoe yap, oansg avSgttd^ 75 
 
 ,e. [lEyiUTOs sgyov navtoe iat^ inierarrfSi 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 la fxoi [loi ovciTjjvos. 
 
 UATJArJltOS. 
 
 xal fitjv d-v^geiv sSo^a jtgopTcdkcov rei^os 
 '=' VTtoaxsvovaris 'ivSov aiadiaOai, xixvov. 
 
 OPE2tH2. 
 
 ^g' iazlv ^ Svari^vos 'HXikrga j &iX€is 80 
 
 [leivcDfisv avTov, xdvaxovaoftsv yotav ; 
 
 nAiAATJiros. 
 ■fjXKSta. fir/Siv ngoadsv, 7] id Ao^iov 
 Tiiigafisd' igSeiv xano xcavS' dg/'^ystiiv, 
 wargos %iovTss_ Xovzgd ' ravTU ydg q)igsi 
 I') vixriv t' iip' rjfiiv xal xgdios tcov dgafiivaf. 8S 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 (0 (pao? ayvov, ,a,„»LL^ i.^^.^j.-,,, lu.,.^.-!. .^;u- 
 
 xal yi}? iaofioigos drjg, Se [ioi C."" ""-) 
 
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 axkgvjov nXayds at(ia(Soonsvav, 90 
 
 OTtorav Svoq)sgd vi/| vTtoXsLtpdjf • 
 
 Ttt Se Ttavvv^iScov ijSrf cxvyigat 
 
 ^vviaaa' svval fioysgav oixcav, 
 
 00a Tov SvtiTTjvov Ifiov dgtjva 
 
 Ttazsg ', ov xaxd (liv ^dgSagov alav 95 
 
 cpoivio? "Agtfs ovx i^iviasv, "^""^ 
 
 86— 102. = 103— 120. 
 
HAEKTPA. 7 
 
 urjrijg 5' ^fx'^ %(0 icoivoXs^rjs 
 
 Ai'yiados, OTtas SfvV vXoTOfiOi, 
 
 6)ri^ovai xaga tpovia nsXixst. 
 
 xovSsl? Tovxav oTxro'S du' oikXffs 100 
 
 ?/ ' [xov (pigsTai, sov, ndxsg, ovt&s " 
 
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 Is t' dv Ttafjtfsyysis aaxgcav 106 
 
 ptTraVj Xsvacfa Si xod' ^fiag, '"'' 
 "^ (ti^ ov, xsxvoksxsig ' as xis drfdaVf 
 
 ijtl xoxvxa xavSs naxomov f"— 
 
 jrpo -trvgcoy rixca naai ngotpavuv. '^f 
 
 a Safj,' 'AtSov xal Hsgastpovq?, 110 
 
 S %6dvi' 'Egiiii, xal ttqtvl' 'Agd, = cv.k^ 
 
 dsfivai xs &SCOV nUtSss 'Egivvs?, 
 
 tt? TOWS dSixeos d'vijaxovxas ogdx', 
 
 * * * *,*,** xot/s svvds ^^\. 
 i" vnoxksTtxofisvavs, £Xdtx\ agij^axs, lis 
 
 - xiaaads iraxgos (p6vov fffistsgov, 
 
 xai [loi xov ifiov Tiifiipax' dSsXipov. 
 
 aovvTj ydg dysiv ovx sxi daxa 
 
 XvTfq? dvxiggonov d;(dos. ho,ie.i 120 
 
 ^ xopo:s. 
 
 a Ttai, nai Svaxavoxdxas ' 
 
 fiAsxxga (laxgos, xiy asi / _ .^ = 
 
 xaxsis ao axogsaxov oifiayav 
 xov TtdXai ix SoXsgd? ddsaxaxa 
 
 121— 136. :^ 137— 152 
 
 (_ W^^,tf(Xv = f. 
 
 yn<o 
 
8 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 fxargos aXovr' aTtdrais 'Aj^afiifivova, 125 
 
 xax^ XB x^igl itgoSoxov ; 6s 6 xaS& Ttoptov 
 oXocx', si' [loi &ifiis xdS' avSdv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 S ysvidXa ysvvaitav,^ 
 
 ^'x£t' ifiav xafiaxcav nagafivdiov. - 130 
 
 ol^a xs xat ^vvit^fii xdS\ ov xi fis 
 (pvyyavii, ov 8' idiXco ngoXntiiv xoSs, 
 fijj^v xov ifiov axova^Biv naxig'' aOXiov. 
 ^aAA' a^navroias (piXoxtfxos dfistSofisvai xdgiv, 
 idxi fi^ nS' dXvsiv, 135 
 
 atais Ixvovfiai. 
 
 xo POS. 
 aAA' ovxoi xov y^ l| 'AtSa 
 nayxoivov Xifiva? naxig'' dv- 
 ardaei?^ ovxs yooiaiv ovr' dvxais.' i^ 
 dXX' dito xtov iiEx'gicnv in' dfi'q^avov t'"-^ 140 
 
 dXyos dsl gxsvd^ovcia SiokXvaai, 
 iv OLS dvdXvOLS iaxiv ov8s(iia xaxav^ 
 XI [loi xcov ov6q)ogav eq)tsi; 
 
 II A Eli TPA. 
 v^nio?,os xav otxxgas i^l.^a 145 
 
 ol^ofisvav yovEov iniXddsxai. 
 aXX' ifis y' d azovosaa' dgagiv (pgivas, 
 a, "Jxvv, ativ ' Ixvv oXocpvgBxai, 
 ogvis dxv^ofiiva, ^i6? dyyikos. 
 tco navxXdftav Ni66a, ai 5' syays vifico &£dv^ 150 
 
HAEKTPA, 9 
 
 
 ax' £v xatpa nsTgaua, 
 aiai, SaxgvBis. 
 
 ,„^ XOP0 2. 
 
 ovxoi dol fiovve^tf rixvDv, 
 
 Ttgos o XI cv xarv svoov sl Ttsgidda, ti 156 
 
 ots ofwOsv SI xcu yovf §vvai[i09, 
 
 oia XgvaoOsfjiis X^ai xal 'Ifidvaoaa,. ~^'" 
 
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 bX6io?, ov a x}.£ivd 160 j 
 
 ;'« TtOTf Mvxrfvaiav 
 
 pk^ixai svTfaxgiSav^ ^los svcpgovi 
 
 ^ijfiaxi [loXovxa xdvSs ydv yOgiaxav. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 OV y'' iya dxdfiaxa ngoh^ivova^,' dxtxvos, 164 
 
 xaXatv ,avvfi<psvxos,aisv oij^va, r^-^f 
 
 Sdxgvdi ixvSaXia, xov dv^vvxov 
 
 oTxov 'ij^ovoa xaxav' 6 Si Xddsxai 
 
 fflv T STiaO av x soat^. xi yag ovx iyioi 
 
 sgxsxai dyysXias dnaxafisvov ; tA„j. (^iiuf.v/. ^ 170 
 
 dst fiiv ydg TtoOsi, ' '*« 
 
 TtoOSv d ' oi»x a|tot (pav^vai. 
 
 , XOPOS. 
 
 &dg0si fioi, d'dgctsi, rixvov. 
 ! sxt [xiyas ovgavo 
 ZiEvs, OS s<poga Ttavxa xai xgaxvvsc • 175 
 
 r > c' ^'',l '-II /•) -^ W 1^. I> 
 
 © ,TOV VTtsgaKyrj ^oXov vsfiovda, s"- ^^^^. 
 
 fiijO' oTs ixdacgsis vjtigd^^dso, fiijx' iitiXdBov. 
 133—173. = 173 — IS»3. 
 
10 ZO^OKAEOTS 
 
 ovT£ yap rav Kgiaav ' > 180 
 
 ^ovvofiov s^cav dxrav,' 
 
 Ttats ' Ayufis^voviSas, aTtsgixgono?, 
 
 OV0' naga xov Aj^egovxa &so? avaaaav. 
 
 f,„ HAEKTPA. I 
 
 aAA ' l^f |W£v 6 noXvg dnoXakomsv ^dij 185 
 
 Bioxos dvsXTtiaixok, ovS' I'r' dgxa- ^i^ 
 
 arts aj/£i/ xoxicov xaxaxdxofiai, 
 
 Us cpiXos ovxis dvrjg vitsgiaxarai, s<--a 
 
 oAA', oiTtsgsi xis snoixos, dva^ia --° 
 
 oixovo^a d-dkdfioys ndxgos, SSs [liv 190 
 
 dstxsi avv ' axokd,' 
 
 xsvais S' dfiyiaxafiki xganstais. 
 
 olxxgd [iBv votixois av8d, 
 
 OLxxgd 8^ iv xolxais Ttaxgaaisl 'tf*^ C''!^) 195 
 
 0T£ ot Ttay/aAxav avxaia 
 
 ysvvav agfiddr^ it'kayd. ti^ 
 
 oo/o? iiv o (pgaaas,^ egos o xxsivas, 
 
 Ssivdv Shvos' ngoqivxsvdavxss''^^'' 
 
 fxogfav, SIT ovv xreos stxs pgoxcov 
 
 ^v 6 xavxa itgdoaavl 200 
 
 .„j . ,.j ^f HAEKTPA. 
 
 eo Ttaodv xsiva nX,iov duiod , 
 sXdova ' e%di(Sxa 8ij fioi • 
 
 193 — 212. = 213 — 232. 
 
HAEKTPA. 11 
 
 tu vv§, CD osiTtvcov agqifftoiv 
 
 sxTtayk' ci%drf • >» 
 
 TOWS ifios i'Ss najrlg ' '"'^°'' ,,^^^1 . ao5 
 
 &avdTovs atxsis SiSvfiaiv x^iQolv, 
 
 at Tov Bfiov blXov ^iov — - "''"=^ '"-"'"^ 
 
 TtgoSoxov, aX fi' dnaXsaav • 
 
 OLS d'sos 6 [iky as ' OXvfinios 
 
 noivifia'Ttdds'a ^nadsTv 'nogoi, 2io 
 
 fATfSi nox'' dyXatas aTtovaiaro' ''""'" 
 
 TotaS' dvvtidvTss sg^a. 
 
 II-. »f XOPOS. 
 
 tpgaCov, firl nogda (pavsiv. > -^ 
 
 01/ yvafiav iff^sis, £| oi'toi' ■"-i 
 
 Ta Ttagovj' oixeias sis dras 815 
 
 ifxniTZTSis ovxas atxas ; ^^ ^,^^^ !,„>,„„;. 
 
 TToAv ^ap T£ xaxrai/ vnsgsxx-qcsto, 
 
 6a Svddvfia xixxovd' dsl 
 
 yjv^a noXsfiovs • xd Si xois Svvaxots ' 
 
 ovx igiaxd'Tikddsiv.' s»^i-»t"> gao 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dsivois T^vayxdadrjv, dsivoie ' i" 
 
 £§oiS% ov Xddsi fi' ogya. ""'^ 
 
 ftAA' iv ydg Ssivois ov a^i^aa .^o,,iu^ b.otc 
 
 zavras azaej C'^-t-.v.j ) 
 
 o(pga fis ^los^s^rfj ^ 225 
 
 Ttw yag nox av, a (piAia ysvsdAa,' 
 
 Ttgoaqiogov^ dxovaaifi^ snosl . _ 
 
 xivi (pgovovvTi xaigia ; 
 
 J 
 
 1^.^-1. ..- = -. U ^u^b 
 
12 2O0OKAEOY2! 
 
 TaSs ydg dlvxa ' xsxkrjcisTai ' 230 
 
 ov8i Ttox' ix xa(ia.Ta)v dnonavnofiai 
 dvagidflos S8s d-g-^vav, "* 
 
 XO P0 2. 
 ' aKX'' ovv svvoia y'' avSa, .LlU- 
 fidrtjg aasi zis Ttiaxd, 
 fju^ TiXTSiv tf' dxdv drais. ■^t-' 235 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xal xi (iSTQov xaxoTTfTOs scpv ; tpegE, ;'-"- 
 
 nas STtl Tois (pdifisvois d,fisX£iv xdXov , 
 
 iv Tivi tovt' sSXatii' dvdg&Ttav ; 
 
 firfx sitjv svxifios xovxois ' 
 
 fi^ijj', EL xco ng6axki[iai}(§iiaxa^ 240 
 
 ^vvaioifi^ syxTfXoe,' yovsav »»^ 
 
 ixxifiov? i'(S}(6vaa nxkgvyas 
 
 o^vxovov yoav. i ^^ 
 
 ti ydg 6 [iev davmv,^ yd xs xal ov8sv av, ' a44 
 
 xsicexai xdXas, s'-'? - 
 
 OL Si firf TtdXiv 
 
 Sojciova' dvxKfovove dixas, |^'>.■'^ 
 
 aggoi x av aiocos 
 
 andvxcav x ' svakSsia &vaxav. 850 
 
 ""' XOPOJS'. 
 
 iya (lEv, a nai, xal x6 Gov ansvSo^a'' dfia 
 xal Tovfiov avxrjs 7(X6ov • ai Si lu} xaXcos 
 kiya, av vixd. col ydg ixpofisad' a/xa. -"^ (.o;.Lt) 
 Hj1£KTPA. 
 
 ai<sxvvo[iai (liv, tS yvvaixss, d Soxa 
 
HAEKTPA. 13 
 
 'J f 0)11)11 ]^ ir J It 'It ti> J. U^ 
 
 noXXot<ji &g'^vois 8v0q)ogsXv vfiZv ayav. 255 
 
 dkX', ^ ^ia^^dg xavt' aivayxd^n [jis 8gdv, 
 
 ^^yvcoTis. n^s ydg ^%is ivysviqs yvvrl, "^ .^t^t^-^^L 
 
 Ttdxga'' ogSaa TTJ^ftar', ov Sga/t) Ta3' dv^ 
 
 ttyd xat' '^fiag xal xar' sv^govi^v dsl 
 
 &dXX6vxa fidXi.ov i^ xdxatp&ivovd* ag^ ; 260 
 
 3^ Ttgaxa fiiv xd fiyftgog^ ^ ^' iystvaro, ijto. 
 
 Jl^iaipk avfiSidrfxsv • stra S4)[ia,(Jtv "".k 
 
 iv rots ifiavT'^g, rots fpovsvai xov THaxgos 
 
 ^vsifii, xdx xavd' dg%e^fiair adx xmvSi (loi 
 
 XaSslv 6' o/ioia? xai xo xi^xdodat niXsi, i^^^l 265 
 
 SJtsixa Ttoias. ^fjkigas Soxsis [t' aysiVy 
 
 mav d'govffis A'Lyiadov ivdaxovvx'' ido 
 
 xoZacv naxgaois'jEioiSco 8' iad^fiaxa 
 
 q)ogovvT' ixsiva xavxd, xoki Tiagsaxiovs" ' 
 
 (j7tiv8ovra XoiSd?. svO'' l^uvov mXeasv / 270 
 
 iSa 8s xovxeav xtjv xsksvxamv vSgiv, 
 
 wv avxoEvxrfv '^^Iv iv xoixr^ naxgos " . 
 
 fw Tjji xaXaivjf firfxgl, fif/xig' si %gsav 
 
 xavxi^v 7tgo(Sav8d^ x^8s avyxoi,ii,c3[j,svrfv ; 
 
 5^ 5' a8£ xX^fiav, &axs xm {iidaxogi '"° 275 
 
 §vvs(Jx% 'JSgtvvv owTiv' ixcpoSovfisvtf • 
 
 ckXX', Sci7t£,g, iyysXaaa rots noiovfisvois, 
 
 svgova' sxsivi^v- ■^fisgav, iv ^ xoxs 
 
 naxsga xov d(iov ix 86kem xaxsxxavsv, , 
 
 ravxji }^Qgovs laxrfai, xcu fiy^XoacpaysZ ^^ '^™' 280 
 
 &soZaiv snnriy^ Igd xaZs aaxff gioie. ii- 
 
 iya 8' 6ga<s' ■^ 8v(S^ogogyxaxd oxsyars 't„. 
 
14 2:0<^0KAE0Y2 
 
 xXaica, rizrixa, xaTtixcaxvca Ttargos ^^^^ 
 
 Tj^V dvOTaXaivav Satx' incavoixadnivTi'v '' 
 
 avTjf Ttgos avTijv • ^ovSi ydg xka-vaai Ttdga 285 
 
 Toa6vd\ oaov {loi &v(ids ■^Sovtjv cpigsi. ^l-'-^ 
 
 avTTi ydg, ■^ koyoiai yavvaia yvvtf, v-i^tij^ 
 
 (pavovaa, Toid8' i^ovsiSi^H xaxd- "'-'' 
 
 ^Jl Svadsov fiidfjfia, aoi fiovrf 7taxr}g 
 
 ridvijxsv ; dXXo? 5' ovxis iv jtivdsi ^gotav i 290 
 
 xaxa? okoio, [iTfSi <;' ix yocav noxa 
 
 xSi/ vvv dnaXXd^aiav ol xdxct d'aoi. — 
 
 xd8' i^Sgi^at • tiXtjv oxav xXvtf xivos ,^^ 
 
 ^'Ioit' 'Ogidx'^v • xtfvixavxa 5' ififiavris 
 
 /3oa 7taga(Sxda\ Ov av [loi xavS'' atria ; 295 
 
 ov tfoV xoS' ioxt xovgyov, ■^xi? ix x^gcov 
 
 xXsyjaa' 'Ogaaxi^v xav ifiav VTte^adov } 'i>i"<^ 
 
 a^A' i'ddc rot xiffovad y' d^iav Sixriv. — 
 
 xoiavd^ vXaxxai, ovv 5' aitoxgvvai naXas 
 
 6 xXatvds avxj} vavxd vvfupios itagtov, 300 
 
 6 Ttdvx^ dvaXxts oixos, r( ndaa ^Xd6tf, t;,v.e. 
 
 6 dvv yvvai^l xds (id^as noioviiavo?. 
 
 iyto S' 'Ogaaxriv rmvda 7tgo0(iavova' dst 
 
 Ttavaxijg' acpiq^aiv ^ xdXaiv' djtoXXvfiaL 
 
 [laXXiov ydg dat Sgdv xi, xds ovcfa? xi fiov SOS 
 
 xai xds dnovaas aXniSas Siitpdogav. '■'-^ 
 
 iv ovv xoiovxois ovxa aaupgovalv^ (piXai, 
 
 ovx aveaoaiv nagsaxiv ' aXX av xoi xaxoig 
 
 TtoXX'^ 'tfr' dvdyxtj xdvtixtfSa'^aiv xaxd. h 
 
 ^ XOPOS. 
 
 (pap^ tins, noxagov bvxos Aiyiadov neXas^^K MO 
 
HAEKTPA. 16 
 
 ^^ HAEKTPA. 
 
 ■^ xagrci. fii^ Soxbl ft' civ, stjteg ^v nkXa?, 
 &vgaiov oi](vELv ' vvv S' dygolai rvy^dvai. 
 
 ^ ^ xo POS. 
 ■^ S^ eiv syco d-agaovaa [idXXov is Xoyovs 
 tovs tfows Ixoinrjv, eiitsg SSa ravx' s/ai. 3l» 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 cjs vvv aitovTos, latogsc xi <foi tpiKov. 
 
 XO P02. 
 
 xal Si^ <r' igara, tov xaecyvijxov xi cpifs, 
 ^|ovros, 7f (isXXovxos ; stdivat &ika. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 fijaiv ys • cpdaxiav 5', ovdsv Sv Xiyei TtouZJ" 
 
 X0P02. 
 (piAsi yag oxvsiv Ttgayfj, avr^g Ttgaaatov fisya. 330 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xal firfv syay^ saaa' ixsivov ovx oxvtp. .>v..u-^|. 
 
 ^, X0P02. 
 
 d'dgast ' 7f£(pvx£v iadXos, a<sx' dgxsiv <piXois. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 TtETtoid , sjtsc xav ov ftaxgav Slav syca. "«" 
 
 X0P0 2. „ 
 [ttj vvv ex siTt^s (irfoBv • cog oofiav oga 
 xiqv a-qv o[jiai[iov, ix naxgo? xavxov cpvaiv, 325 
 XgvaodBfiiv, sx re [irixgos, ivxdcpia x^Qoiv 
 (pegovciav, ola xots xdzco vofii^sxai. 
 
 .osU-,^ XPTS0eEMI2. 
 
 Ttv' aZ ov xifvSe vtgog &vgSvos i^odois 
 iXdovaa qxavets, S xaaiyv^xr^, tpdxiv^ 
 
 
16 2O0OKAEOY2 
 
 iiov8 ' £v xpova fiaxga ScSa^d^vai d-iXsis 330 
 
 xatToi xoaovTov y oida xafx.avT'^v, on 
 aA/c3 'nri rots Ttagovdiv • Sax' &v, si (Sdivoe 'I- 
 }.d,6oL[ii, dr^kaoaifx' av oV avrols cpgovS. . 
 '^vvv S' iv xaxois p.01 nXitv vfiifiii/tf Soxti, 335 
 xai fiTj oox^iv [jiEv agav xi, TCjffiaivsiv og fiif. 
 xoiavia S' aAAa xat ai ^biikofiai noistv. 
 xaCxoi xd [liv Sixitiov, oi5j^ ^ 'ya Xiyca, «. 
 akk' § av xgivsis. ei 8' iktvdigav [is Ssi 
 ^ijv, xav xgdxbvirccav iaxi vtdvx' dxovttxsa. 340 
 
 iUi HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ssivov yi &" oScfav aaxgos o5 av nats eyi/?,"'^'- 
 
 xstvov Xskrjadai, x^s 8i xixxovaris (liXsiv. c^s 
 
 &ttavxu ydg aoi xdpid vovdsTtjfiaxa 
 
 xsivifs 8i8axxd, xovSiv ix aavx^s Xsysis. 
 
 STtsid' skov ys d'dxsg\ ij tpgovttv xaxms, h.. .«^^- 345 
 
 tf xav <piXav, cpgovovaa, firj fivijfiifv s^siv • 
 
 TJrig Xiym fiiv dgxias ras, si kdSoie 
 
 adivos, xd xovzav [iiaos ix8si^sias dv • 
 
 sfiov Si Ttaxgl ndvxa xifiagovfiivTfs, sU 
 
 ovTS ^vsgSsis, xijv xs 8gaaa.v ixxgsnsis. 5"- - 350 
 
 ov xavxa ngos xaxoiai SsiXiav s^si ; *t-"^„t 
 
 insl SiSa^ov, ij fidd' i§ ifiov, xi [loi 
 
 xigSos yivmx' dv xavSs krj^dajf yoav. 
 
 ov ^6; xaxm fiiv, ot8^ - ijtdgxovvxae 8s fioi. 
 
 Xvna Si xovxovs^ Saxs xa xs&vr^xoxi 355 
 
 xifids ngoadTtxsiv, sc xts sax' sxst ^dgis. =.fo/.fi 
 
 hKuL 
 
HAEKTPA. 17 
 
 •f,. 
 
 av S ' ^filv ri fiiaovaa fttoff & [isv koya, 
 
 igya Si rots (povavai rov nuTgos ^vvsi. '^ 
 
 iya fisv o5v ovx av nor', ov5' si' fioi za ad 
 
 [isXXoi Tis oidEiv dag', icp' oTai vvv jfAt5as,i-«^^.«^ seo 
 
 Toiixois VTtsixddoifit • doi Si nXovaia 
 
 xgdits^a xsiada xat Ttsgiggsixa ^ios. J»t 
 
 ifiol ydg scitco xovfii (iri XvnBiv (xovov 
 
 ^oaxTjfjia' rrjs (Jrjs 5' ovx igS Tinijs tv^slv. 
 
 ovS' dv (Sv, acxpgcov y^ odaa. vvv S' i^ovjcdtgos 365 
 
 Tidvjav dgiaiov naiSa- xsxX'^tidat, xaXov 
 
 TjJ'ff firfTgog. ovtco ydg (pavsl nXsiarois xaxij, <o 
 
 &av6vTa Ttatiga xal cpiXov? ngoSovaa covs. 
 
 M XO PO 2. 
 
 {.iJlSiv Ttgoe ogyi^v ngos d^scov • as rots Xoyois 
 iv'sariv dficpolv xigSos, si av fxiv [iddois 370 
 
 "xoZ? T^aSs xg^adai, rots Si dots avxri ndXiv. 'Ufc^ 
 
 XPT20 EMI2. 
 
 iya fjiiv, S yvvatxss, r^dds stfii ncog 
 
 jcav T^aSs fivdcav • ovS' dv ifiv^oOifv nori, >^ts 
 
 si fj.rj xaxov (.isyiarov si^avrrjv iov^ 
 
 ■^xova', o Tavxrfv tcav fiaxgav a^^asi yocov. 375 
 
 q)sg ' sijti Sj) to Ssivov. si ydg tSvSs fioi 
 [isl^ov XI Xs§scs, ovx dv dvxsiTtoifj.' sxi. 
 
 XPTSOe EMI2. 
 
 aAA' i^sga xol ndv oaov xdxoiS' iya. 
 
 fisXXovtii ydg tf ', si xavSt fitj Xjj^sis yoav, 
 
 ivxavda Ttsuxpsiv, sv6a (j.tJ nod' '^Xiov 
 
 cpiyyos jcgoaowsi, ^asa 5' iv xan^gsfit ir^i 
 2* 
 
18 2O0OKAEOT2! 
 
 dTtyrf, ^Oovos TjfaS^ ixroe, vjiv^beis xaxa. 
 ngos xavxa ^gdt^ov, xa,[iE (t-q itoQ^ HffTS^&if 
 Ttadovaa (leiixpj). vvv ydg iv xaka fpgOl^ttv. ^"^<^ 
 
 UAEKTPA. 
 
 ■^ JuvTa 8-q [IS xal ^sdovktwrat noieiv } 385 
 
 XPT20 OEMIS. 
 
 "inc. 
 
 fidXiad''- oxav nsg oixaS' AiyiaOos fioX^. 
 
 L^i ^^ HAEKTPA. 
 
 aAA' i^ixoiTo xovSi y' ovvsx' iv xdj^st. .-«s 
 
 xprso EMIS. 
 xiv ', 1^ xdXaiva, xovS ' snrigdaa Xoyov ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ikdsiv ixsivov, EL XI xavSE 8gdv vast. 
 
 XPT20 0EMI2. 
 
 OTtcas Ttddzfs ti X9W<^ } ^ov Ttox ' EL (pgsvav ; 390 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 oTtas cup vfitiv as ngoacaxax' £xq)vya. 
 
 XPTSO e EM12. 
 
 ^iov Si xov TtagoUfxos ov [ivsiav EX^K ; 
 
 ^^ HAEKTPA. 
 
 xaXos ydg ovfios ^ioxos Soxs &avfidaai. 
 
 XPT20 QEMI2. 
 
 aAA' ^v av, eI av y^ ev fgovsiv ■^nidxaco. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ftij u' ixSiSaaxs xois tplXoLs eXvul xaxifv^ 395 
 
 XPT20 EMI2. 
 
 dlX' av StSdaxea • xois xgaxovdi 5' Eixadetv. 
 
 HAEKTPA'. 
 
 av xavxa damv' • ovx ifxovs xgonovs Xiysis. 
 
 XPr20 QEMI2. 
 
 xaXov ys [lEvxot fi-q '| d6ovXias neaeiv. 
 
SAEKTPA. 19 
 
 HABKTPA. 
 
 naso'u^sd ', St ;f p?^, itdtgi tiii&go^fisvou 
 
 XPtSOOEMlS. 
 
 nttrrlg 8i to^tcjh', old a, Hvyy^tafifriv sxn- <W 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 tavx' Itfti rptTTj^ TTpos xaxov inaivieau 
 
 XPT20eEMIS. 
 
 tsv S' ov/i Ttsiati xat avvaiviasts iitoif 
 
 hJektpa. 
 ov S'^ta, [i^ nto pov toaovS'' sli^v xsv^* 
 
 XPTSO OEMI2. 
 
 ^agifaofiai rap* otjfsg iatdXrjv 68ov, 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 noi 8' ifiTtogsvsi; rra cpsgn? Td8' sfiTCVgdi) «JB 
 
 X PTSO EMI2. 
 
 fxifitfg fiE nifiTtst utaxgl Tv/MBsvcfea, xodi. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 nas Eiitas } ^ ta 8v<S[i£VECltdxa ^goxov ; 
 
 XPTSO e EMI2. 
 
 OV sxxav' avT-q. tovto ydg Xi^ai d'kXsis. 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 ix Tov cpikciv TtEiaOitaa ; ra towt' ^gsasv ; 
 
 XPrSO 0EMI2. 
 
 he Ssifiatds TOV vvarigov, 8oxsiv ifioi. 410 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 S &801 Tta-igaoi, dvyyivsadi y'' dXXd vvv, 
 
 XPTSO eS][ii2. 
 sj(iis TL ^dgaoig tovSs tov rdgSovs nigi; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ii fioi XayoK ttjV Htpiv, ihtoi^'' &v rots. 
 
20 2O0O KA E or 2 
 
 XPTSO 6 EMI2. 
 
 aAA' ov xdzoiSa, nXrfv sni afiixgov tpgdaai. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Xiy^ aXXd tovxo. noXXd roi dfiixgol Xoyoi 415 
 satpt^Xav TfSi] xai xazagdaaav ^gozovs. 
 
 XPrSO 0EMIS. 
 
 Xoyos ris avxr\v laxiv sleiSiiv itargos 
 
 rov gov T£ xdfiov SEvrigav o/xiXiav 
 
 iXdovTOS is (pas ■ stza t6v8' icpidriov 
 
 nij^ai Xa66vxa axijingov ovcpogsi noxs Asia 
 
 avxos, xavvv 8' Aiyiad'os' ix Si xovd' avo 
 
 ^Xaaielv ^gvovxa &aXX6v, a xa.td(Jxiov 
 
 Tfdaav ysviodai t'j]v Mvxrfva,itov ^dova. 
 
 xoiavxd xov nagovxos, ^vi}(' ' HXia 
 
 Ssixvvai xovvag, sxXvov i^yovfisvov. 425 
 
 TtXsia di xovxav ov xdxoi8a, TtXtjv 8xi 
 
 nsfinei fj,' ixtivif xovSs xov (p66ov %dgiv. 
 
 7Tq6? vvv d'sav as Xiacfofjiai xav iyysvav, 
 
 l/,tOt nidscdai firfS' dSovXia, nacsZv. 
 
 £t ydg jm' dnadsi^ avv xaxS fxixsi TtdXiv. 430 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 t^XX ', ra (piXrf, xovxmv fiiv, av %«ts xsgotv, 
 Tv/j,6cp Ttgoaaipifs (ii^Siv • ov ydg (foi ■d'ifiis 
 ovS' oaiov, i}(dgds ano yvvatxos taxdvai 
 xxsgiCfiax ' ovSi Xovxgd ngodipigsiv naxgi = 
 a/lA' ri nvoalaiv rf ^advdxafsi xovbi 435 
 
 xgvipov vLv, 'ivda jw?^' nox' Bts svv^v vtaxgos 
 xovxav ngoasicti fitiSiv • dXX', oxav d-dyj}, 
 
HAEKTPA. 21 
 
 Kfi(n^}.i^ avjy xoLvja ata^ad-d xarta. 
 
 dgx^v 5' oiy, ei {ii^ xkri^ovsatdxri yvv^ 
 
 Ttaadv sSXaaxs, xdutSe 5wwjufv«t's X^as 440 
 
 ovx civ nod', ov f' ixrsivt, tSS* ittktsxttp^. 
 
 exiy/ai 'ydg, el' dot TtgoafiXta? avx^ Soicsl 
 
 ysga t«5' ovv xdfoiei Si^aeOtu vkxvs, 
 
 vf ' ^s d'avcav axifioSi aaxs ^wsfuv^i, 
 
 i{iaaxaXi(s6rj^ xdxl kovxg'aiacv xdga 44^ 
 
 xrfkiSas i^ifia^sv. dga ja.^ SoxsSs 
 
 ^vxrjgt^ avxy xavxa xov cpovov fsgtiv j 
 
 ovx Edxiv. dXXoi xavta ftiv [iides • ffv Si 
 
 xEfiovaa XQaxo? ^oaxgv^av dxga? <p6€a^ 
 
 xdfiov xaXaivii?, ap.ixgd (liv xdS^^ d'Xk' oukas 450 
 
 Kj^a, 8ds avxa, xt^vS' dXaiag^ tgix&, 
 
 Tcai ^a/za xovfiov ov %XtSais i^axri[j.ivov. 
 
 aixov Si ngoajtixvovea yi^div sifitv^ 
 
 ^fiiv dgcayov avxov sis i^dgovs fiokiii', 
 
 xat jrat3' 'iJgitsxrfv l| vTtspxipa? }isg6s 455 
 
 i^dgoiffiv avxov t^vx' iitsiiSrjvai TtoSl, 
 
 OTttoe xo Xoiitov avxov a^pvs&xiigatg 
 
 ;pfptfi axitpc3[iev, tf xavvv SagovfiEOa. 
 
 oifiai (liv oSv, otfiai xi xdxtCvf^ [iskov 
 
 niftipai xdB' avxjf Svaitgoffonx* ovsigata' 4S0 
 
 afia? 5', dSsXcprf, aoi 6' vnovgyi^eov xdSs 
 
 Ifioi t' dgayd, xo rs <pikxdxtp ^poxav 
 
 ndvxav, iv "AiSov xsifiivea xoiva naxgL 
 
 xo P02. 
 agos svaaSsiav ^ xogrj Xsysi • av Si^ 
 
22 . 2O0OKAEOY2 
 
 il acucpgov^asis, a cpiXrj, Sgdasi? rdSs. 465 
 
 XPrj!O0EMI2. 
 
 Sgddci. TO /ap Sixaiov ovx s/si Xoyov 
 
 dvoiv igi^siv, aAA' iitKtJisvSsiv to 8§dv. 
 
 TtsiQcofiivtf 8i tSvSs tcov Bgycav sfiol 
 
 01/1] Ttag' vfiSv, Ttgos &iav, s&tcu, qiikou' 
 
 as, £1 ToiS ' ■^ Tsxovda navasxai, nixgdv 478 
 
 Soxa [i£ Ttsigav xrjvSs xoXfi'^dsiv eti. 
 
 XOPO s. 
 II firj 'yea jiagdtpgeov [idvxis scpvv, 
 xal yvafjkas"X£i7T0fiiva aoipds, 
 £i(}iv d TtgofiavTis 475 
 
 //ixa, Sixaca <p£gofiiva )[£goZv xgdrtf • 
 (i£T£iaiv, S> xixvov, ov fjLaxgov xgovov. > 
 
 vnaaTL fioc &gdaos, 
 
 ddvnvoav xXvovaav 480 
 
 ccgxias ovfigdzmv. 
 ov ydg nox ' dfivaaxti y ' 6 tpvaas 
 ' EXXdveav dva§, 
 ov§' a nakacd ^(aXxoTtXaxxos 
 dj4cpi{xrfs yivvs, ^ , ^ . -] '185 
 
 a viv xaxiu£<pv£v attf/ttfrats iv alxiais. 
 Tjiat xal TtoXvnovs xou 7ioXv;(£ig 488 
 
 a Saivois xgvnxofiiva /.o^ois 490 
 
 XaXxonovs 'JEgivvg. 
 dUxxg' dvvfi(pa ydg iiziSa [iLuupovov 
 yd^av dfiMiji^ad' oTaiv ov d-^ug. 
 472 — 487. = 488 — 503- 
 
- HAEKTPA. 23 
 
 TTpd TovSi xoi IX ' s^si, 495 
 
 dy)syi? Ttskdv jsgas 
 
 Tois Sgcaai xat avvSgaeiv. rj roc 
 
 uavraiai Sgozov 
 
 ovx slaiv iv Ssivois ovsigois, 500 
 
 ov8' iv &sa(pdixois, 
 
 si firj ToSs (pdafia vvxxo? sd xaxaax^asi. 
 
 a nikoTtos d Ttgdadsv 504 
 
 TtoXvTtOVOS lltTtiia, 505 
 
 d)s sfio^ss atavq 
 
 rads ya. 
 
 EvxE ydg 6 novxitidsls 
 
 MvgriXos ixoifiddij, 
 
 nay%gvaicav Siipgtov 510 
 
 Svardvois alxiais 
 
 TCgoggitos ixgupdsls, 
 
 oil Tt Tta 
 
 eXiTtsv ix T0v8' oi'xov 
 
 noXvTtovos atxia, 5i5 
 
 KATTAIMNliSTPA. 
 
 dvsifiivij [xiv, d)s i'oixas, av orgicpsi. 
 
 ov ydg Ttdgsofr ' AiyKj&os, os c ' stcel/ ' dsl 
 
 fxri Toi &vgaiav y ' oiiaav ala/vvscv cpiXovs ' 
 
 vvv S',,a? amax'' sxiivog, ov8iv ivxgsjtsi 
 
 ifiov ys ' xaixoi TtoXkd ngos noXXov? fis Si^ 520 
 
 i^SLTtas, as &ga.O£ia xal nsga Sixrfs 
 
 dgxa, xa&v6gi^ovcia xal as xal xd od. 
 
21 20^0KAE0r2 
 
 iyo S ' v6giv fiiv ovx s^cj ' xaxm di as 
 
 kiyra, xaxSs xXvovaa ngos asd'sv &afid. 
 
 Ttairlg ydg, ovSiv aAAo, aoi Ttgoax^fi ' asi, 525 
 
 raff e| ifiov Ti&vrjxsv. I| ip,ov • xaXas 
 
 e^oiSa ' Ttavd ' agvqais ovx tvsdxi (lot. 
 
 ^ yog Jixri viv slXtv, xovx iya fidvff^ 
 
 ^ X9W * ' oig^yBiv, si (pgovova ' ixvyj^avts ' 
 
 insL TtaTtjg ovfos eds, ov &.gr^vBcs dsl, 630 
 
 Tiji' aifv ofiaifiov fiovvoe 'EXXrfvcav I'tAt^ 
 
 d^wfai &eoiaiv, ovx i'aov xafitov ifiol 
 
 Xvjtrjs, OT ' £<jTtsig '. Sffnsg 7) xixTova ' iyd. 
 
 iuv • Sida^ov Sij [IS xov, %dgiv rivos 
 
 s&vdsv avT^v. TtoTsgov 'Agysuait. sgsis ; 535 
 
 dkX ' ov (iSTrjv avTotai Tjjv y ' ^».i\v xzavsiv. 
 
 dXX ' dvT ' dSsktpov Sijra Msvsksa xiavav 
 
 T&fi ', ovx sfisk^s TmvSi fioi Sdasiv Sixtjv ; 
 
 TtoTigov sxsivco naiSss ovx yaav dmkot, 
 
 ovs TTjaSs (idXXov stxos ^v Bvijoxsiv, naxgoi 540 
 
 Ttal [xtjTgds ovxas, '^e 6 ti^ovs 08 ' -^v xdgiv, 
 
 jj Tov ifjLcav "AiSr^s tiv ' ifisgov rixvtav 
 
 ^ tSv ixsivrf? saj^s daifiaad'ai nXiov ; 
 
 ij xm navtoXsi naxgl xmv (isv l^ i/iov 
 
 TtaiSav uod'os nagsixo, Msvskscy, 5' iv^v ; 545 
 
 ov xavx, ' dSovXov xat xaxov yvtafirfv naxgos ; 
 
 Soxa fiiv, si. xai a^s Si^a yvdftrfs Xsyta. 
 
 qittirj 5,' dy ^ d'avovad y\ si (pavtjv XdBoi. 
 
 iyco fiiv ovv ovx si/il xois nsngayfisvois 
 
 Svad^fios • ti Si aoi 80x6 q>govsiv xaxm, 550 
 
HAEKTP A. 25 
 
 yvtifirfv Sixaiav a^ovaa rovs TtiXas yjs^s, 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 igsts {liv ov^i vvv yk fi\ a? oig^aud xi 
 kvTtrigop sha gov rdS' i§^«ova^ vno • 
 ikAA' ?^v i(pjjs fioi, Tov rs&vrfxoxos ^' VTtsg 
 Ki^aifi' av og&as rijs xadiyvi^rri? &' b[iov, 555 
 
 KATTA IMNH2 TPA. 
 
 Tcal iir\v icpii^fi'' • si Ss [i,' &8' del Xoyoi? 
 i^^g%ES, ovx otv ifod-a Xvjttfgd xXvelv^ 
 
 HAEKTP A. 
 
 xai 8^ Xkya dot, TtaxigOkcpifS xxsivac. xis ttv 
 
 xovxov Xoyos yivoix ' dv alaxiov sxi, 
 
 etV ovv 8ixaic3S, sixe fi-q ; Xi^a Si dot, 560 
 
 as ov 8ixjf y' sxxsivas, dXXd a' son ads 
 
 Ttsi&a xaxov ngos dv8g6s, a xavvv ^vvti, 
 
 igov 8i xr\v xvvayov " AgxsfiLV, xivos 
 
 noivds xd noXXd jtvevfiax' sa%' iv AvXl8l • 
 
 ^ ' ya q)gd(}(o • xsivt^i ydg ov d'Sfiis (lad'stv. 565 
 
 naxijg nod'' ovfids, m iya xXvm, d'sds 
 
 Tiai^av xax' dXaos i^sxivtfaav noSotv 
 
 arixxov xsgdaxr^v sXacpov, od xaxd acpayds 
 
 ixxofXTtdaas, k'nos xi xvy^dvn ^aXcav. 
 
 xdx xovSs fjirjviaatia Ar/xaa xogrj 570 
 
 xarstj^' 'Axaiovs, as naxiqg dviiaxad'iiov 
 
 xov dTfgos ixd^vasis xtjv avxov xogtfv. 
 
 <S5' rjv xd xsivrjs &vfiax' • ov ydg 7jv Xiiuis 
 
 dXXri dxgaxa ngos olxov, ov8' sis "IXiov, 
 
 dvQ' \v ^lad&sls noXXd xduxiSds, fioXis 579 
 
26 20fPOKAEOY2 
 
 £&v(tsv avTi^v, ov}(l Msviksa %dgiv. 
 
 SI 8' ovv, iga ydg xal to tfdv, xsivov d'sXav 
 
 inaxpsXijaai xavr ' 'iSga, tovxov &av£iv 
 
 Xg'fjv avTOV ovvsx'' ix (sidsv ; itoita vofitp ; 
 
 oga, ri&staa tovSs tov vofiov ^goTOts, - 580 
 
 itj^ Tt^fia aavTy xai (lExdyvoiav Tid°rfs. 
 
 it ydg xTSvovfiiv dXXov dvz' aXXov, dv xoi 
 
 Ttgmri &dvoi? dv, el Sixijs ys Tvy^dvois. 
 
 dXk' alaoga fiij axrlyjiv ovx ovaav ri&rfs. 
 
 EC ydg &iXsis, SiSa^ov dvd' ' oxov xavvv 585 
 
 aisxitira ndvxav sgya Sgaaa xvy}(dv£is, 
 
 'f]xis ^vvsvSsis xa itakafivaia, fiBd"' od 
 
 naxiga xov dfiov itgoa&sv i^ajtaXsaas, 
 
 xal TtaiSoTtoiHS • xov? Si 7tg6a&sv, eva£6eis 
 
 xd^ svasSSv ^Xaaxovxas, ixSaXova' s^sis. 59o 
 
 TtSs xavx ' inaiviaaifi ' av ; ^ xal xovx ' igsis, 
 
 a)<; xrjs dvyaxgos avxiitoiva Xafi6dv£i5 ; 
 
 ata%gas 8', idv neg xai Xiyjfs, ov ydg xaXov 
 
 i^d'gois yafiSLCld'ai x^s Q'vyaxgos ovvBxa. 
 
 dXX ' ov ydg ovSs vovd-Exstv s^saxi as, 595 
 
 7y Ttdaav ij^s yXaaaav, as xrfv fii^xiga 
 
 xaxoaxofiovfiEv. xai a ' syays Ssanoxtv 
 
 ^ fitfxig' ovx aXaaaov sis rjfids vifica, 
 
 ^ ^a piov [lox^rigov, sx xs gov xaxois 
 
 TtoXXois dsL ^vvovaa xov xs avwofiov. eoo 
 
 6 8 ' dXXos s^a, ^ffpa arjv fioXis (pvyeov, 
 
 xXtjfiav 'OgsaxTjs Svaxv^^^ xgiSsi ^iov • 
 
 ov TtoXXd 5?^ fxi aoi xgstpsiv fiidaxoga 
 
HAEKTPA. 27 
 
 tnifxidaa • xat x68 ', simg sed'svov, 
 
 fdgav av, sv tovt' lad'i. xovSi y' ovvsxa 605 
 
 xrjgvaai fi. ' sis anavra?, sirs %grj xaxrfv 
 
 el'zs axofiagyov air' dvaiSfias Tt?.iav. 
 
 si ydg nicpvxa xavSs rav sgycav iSgts, 
 
 c^bSov ri Ttjv tiijv ov xaxaigj^vva q)vaiv. 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 oga [livos nviovaav • ai Si 6vv dixff 6lo 
 
 ^vvsdxi, xovSs tpgovxcS'' ovx sx ' sianga. 
 
 KATTAIMNU2TPA. 
 
 noias 8i [lot Ssi Ttgos ys x'qvSs (pgovxiSos, 
 
 41119 xoiavxa xrjv xsxovaav v6gtoav, 
 
 xal xavxa xijXixovxos ; S.g ' ov aoi Soxst 
 
 j^agstv av sis Ttdv sgyov aia^^vvTjs dxsg ; 615 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 sS vvv STtidxa xavSa fi' aia^vvrfv s^^iv, 
 
 xsi /i'j] Soxa (SOL ' lA.av&dva S ' o&ovvsxa 
 
 s^caga ngdaaca xovx sfiol ngoasixoxar 
 
 dlk ' ^ ydg ix dov Svoftivsia xai xd ad 
 
 sgy' s^avayxaCsi [is xavxa, Sgdv ^ia. 620 
 
 aiaxgois ydg aus^gd ngdyfiax' ixSiSdtJxexai. 
 
 KATTAIMNHSTPA. 
 
 a &gs[i(i^ dvaiSis, tf tf ' iya xai xdfA,' sn^ 
 xftl xdgya xd/id rto^V dyav^kiysiv notst. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 (SV xoL ksysis viv, ovx syco. (Sv ydg noisis 
 Tovgyov • xd 8'' sgya xovs Xoyovs svgitixsxai. 625 
 
23 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 KATTAIMNH2TPA. 
 
 kXX ', ov ftd Trjv Ssanoivav "AgTSfiiv, &gd(Sovs 
 Tov8' ovx dXv^sis, £vt' S.v Aiyiad'os [loXji^ 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 ogas ; Ttgos ogyrjv ixcpigsi, fis&sioS fioi 
 Xkysiv a xgv^oifi' ' ov8' ijiiaraoou xXvsiv. 
 
 KA TTAIMNHSTPA. 
 
 ovxovv idiJsis ovS' in' £V(p7Jfiov ^orjs 630 
 
 &vaai fA.', iTiaiSrf aoi y' i<pijxu nav kiysiv } 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ia, xsksvta, &ve • fir^S' iitaixia 
 
 Tovfidv dTOfi', <as ovx dv niga Xi^aifi' ert. 
 
 KATTAIMNIISTPA. 
 
 STtougs drj dv &v[ia,& ', ^ nagovad [loi, 
 
 ndyxagrt', dvaxzi raS' OTtas Xvrtjgiovs 635 
 
 Bv^ds dvaa^to Ssifidtav &v vvv £%co. 
 
 xAvots dv rjSr), ^ol6e ngoazaxrigiE, 
 
 xBxgvfifiivrfv fxov ^d^iv. ov ydg iv (pi?iiOte 
 
 6 fiv&os, ovSi Ttdv dvamv^aiTtgETiu 
 
 Ttgos (pa?, ntngovari? Tifods itXi^gias ifiot, 640 
 
 fjtT^ avv tp&ovcp TS xai Ttokvylaadat ^off 
 
 cmigjf iiaTuiav ^d^iv is itdaav rtokiv. 
 
 aXX ' coS ' dxovE • z^Sf ydg xdya (pgdato. 
 
 a, ydg ngoastSov wxtI tjjSe (pdafiaza, 
 
 Sitsaav ovEigav, zavrd fioi, Avxei ' ava|, 645 
 
 ft [lEV Ttifi^vEv EO&kd, dos TEkEatpoga • 
 
 li 5' E^d-gd, rots sx^golaiv Efiuakiv [j.i&-£^- 
 
 xal 11% Its nXovxov xov Ttagovxos eixives 
 
HAEKTPA. 29 
 
 toXoidi ^ovXsvovaiv ixSalsiv, itp^s, 
 
 «AA' aSi ^t' dsi ^codav dSXaSii ^la 650 
 
 Sofiovs 'ArgsiSav ax'^mgd t' dft^STtsiv rdSs, 
 
 <f)iXoi6i TE ^vvovaav ols ^vvsifii vvv 
 
 ivTffisgovoav xal rixvcav, odav ifiol 
 
 Svavoia {itj ngoasaxiv jj Xvitri itixgd. 
 
 tavt', a yivxsi' "'^ttoAAov, I'Asos xXvav^ 655 
 
 dos Ttdaiv Tffiiv Sajtsg i^airovfj.sd'a. 
 
 xd §' akka Ttdvra, xal aiaTtaarjS ifJ-ov, 
 
 ina^ia as SaCfiov' ovt' i^siSsvai. 
 
 Tovs ix Jios ydg alxos iaxi ndvd- ' ogdv. 
 
 nAiJ Ai'iiros. 
 §ivou yvvaZxs?, nag civ siSsii^v aaqxios 660 
 
 £t rov xvgdvvov da)fiaT'' Atyiad'ov xdSs ; 
 XO P 2. 
 
 xdS'' itixlv, S IsV. avTos ffxadas xakas. 
 
 nAij Arjiro2. 
 ^ xat Sdfiagxa x'^vS' iusixd^ov xvga 
 XBLVov ; Ttginsi ydg as xvgavvos sidogav. 
 
 X p o:s. 
 (idkiaxa ndvxGtv. ' fjSs eoi xiivff ndga- 665 
 
 nAiJAmros. 
 S x^^9 'i o.va.GGa.. oot (pigcav ■^xco koyovs 
 tjSbis cpikov nag' dvdgds At/td&a d'' h^ov, 
 
 KATTAIMNIISTPA. 
 
 iSe^d/iriv x6 gTf&sv • siSivai Ss aov 
 ngaxiaxa ^g^^m, xis <f ' dnsaxEiksv ^goxav. 
 
 nAiJArsiro2. 
 0avoxivs 6 fpaxiv?, ngdyfia nogsvvov (isya. 670 
 3* 
 
30 2:O0OKAEOT2 
 
 KA TTAIMNllSTi'A . ^ 
 
 TO Ttolov, a ^ev' ; iins. nagd (piXov ydg av 
 avSgos, adtp' oTda, ngoafiksts Xs^sce Koyovs. 
 
 nAiJArsiro2. 
 ri&vrjx^ 'OgiaTr(s. iv ^ga%si ^vv&sls Xiya. 
 
 HAEKl'PA. 
 
 01 'yto TdXaiv\ oXaXa tjjS' iv ^[xiga, 
 
 KATTAIMNH2TPA. 
 Ti qijfs, xi ipjjs, a ^uvs; [irf ravTifS y.Xvi. 675 
 
 nAi/tArJiro z. 
 &av6vr' OgioTrfv vvv la xal ndXai Xs-ya. 
 
 HAEK TP A. 
 
 d7t(aX6(iriv Svaxrivos, ovSiv ein' in. 
 
 KATTAIMNHZTPA. 
 
 ov [iBv xd davxrj? ngdao', ifioi Si av, |4Vf, 
 xdXijd'is uni, xm xgontp SioXXvxat, ; 
 
 nAiJArsiros. 
 xdnififtof^iTfv ngos xavxa, xal x6 ndv cpgdec). 680 
 XSLV05 ydg, iX&dv sis x6 xXsivov 'EXXdSos tffjH? 
 Ttgoaxtjfi ' dyavos, /laXcpLxav dd'Xav j^dgiv, ft' 
 ot' fja&sx'' dvSgos og&icuv xi^gvyfidxav 
 ogofiov 7tgox7jgv§avro?, ov ngcaxrf xgusis, 
 SL(}^X&E Xafingos, ndai xoi? ixsi aiSas • r^ e85 
 
 Sgofiov S' laaea? xj} tpvasL xd xigfjiaxa, e.ow- 
 vixTjS s%(JOv i^^X&s ndvxifiov yigae. 
 Xanas (liv iv noXXoiai navgd aoi Xkyca, " 
 
 ovx oTSa xoiovS' dvSgos sgya xal xgdxrjJ 
 IV 8' i'ad'' • oacav ydg ai(SBxrjgv^av ^gaSijs 690 
 Sgofiav BiavXov utS'X', &7tsg voiii^STai, 
 
HAEKTPA. 31 
 
 tovxav iveyxdv Ttdvxa raTtivixia, 
 
 aXSi^sr', ^ Agystos fjniv as^faaaXovfiivos, 
 
 ovofia 8' 'Og^sOTrff^ tov io kXeivqv' EXXdSos 
 
 'Aya[iifi,vovos^cirg}iT£V[jL' aysigavro? ttojb. 695 
 
 xal xavza fiiv xoiavd'' • orav 8s ns &mv 
 
 ^Xdutxtf, 8vvaiT ' otv ovS ' oiv Id^ijcav cpvyeiv. 
 
 xscvos ydg, aXXris '^(lig.asi od"' iitntxav «^ ( 
 
 ^v, tjXlov xeXXovxoSi dxvTtovs dyav, 
 
 starjXda jtoXXav dg{j.axi^Xaxav fikxa, 700 
 
 ah r^v 'A^aios, sTs djta UndgxTi?, 8vo 
 
 ytidvss, i.vycDxav dgjMxav inioxdxai • 
 
 xdxsLVos iy xovxoiai OsoaaXds txcov 
 
 LTtTtovs 6 TtifiTtxos ' Exxos i^ AlxcoXias, 
 
 ^avdaiat naXois • sBSoiios Mdyyri? dvtjg • 705 
 
 o S ' oySoo? XBvxiTtjtos, Alvidv yivos ' 
 
 svaxos 'AdrivSv xSv &so8ftilxav ano • 
 
 Boiaxoe dXXos, 8ixaxov ixjtXi^gav oxov. t^^ 
 
 oxdvxes 8' od' avxovs ot xsxayfjtivoi PgaS'^s 
 
 x?.ijgois SJttjXdv xat xaxitixi^ijav Sifgovs, 710 ' 
 
 ^aXxii? vTtai adXmyyoe ^^av • ot 8' djia 
 
 iTtTtois oiioxX^davxes rfvia? %£goiv 
 
 eaBKSav • ev Ss nds ifiscfxcidrf 8g6fios 
 
 xxvTtov xgpxrfxSv dgftdxcav • xovis 5' dvta 
 
 (fogsld ' • biiov Ss Tidvxss dvafisfiiyfisvoi 715 
 
 cpstSovxo xsvxgav ov8sv, ras vnsgSdXoi 
 
 jrvoas Tis avxav xai cpgvdyfiad' Imiixd. 
 
 Ofiov ydg d^cpi vaxa xal xgo^^v ^dasis i ^'^'i^ 
 
 i'jrpgi^ov, stcjiSaXXov Imtixai jtvoaL "-l-Iv 
 
 <i.,: 
 
32 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 xeivos 8', iiTt^ avTijv iti^dTifv (fTijkTfv sxav, 720 
 
 e';(gi[ntt' del avgiyya, Ss^iov S' dvsh 
 
 angatov injrov, sTgys tov ngoaxsifisvov. 
 
 xal Tigiv fiiv ogdol ndvrss 'dcxaoav 8i(p§oi ' 
 
 ETtsna S' Aividvoe dvdgos aaxofioi 
 
 TtaXoi ^la (pigovaiv, ix S' VTtoatgotpije, iHc 725 
 
 rakovvTSS sxzov sdSofiov r' ^8ij dgoftov,"^^^ 
 
 fiSTOTtu avfiTtaiovai JBagxaioig o^ois ' 
 
 xavTsvdsv dXXos a)^Xov i§ ivos xaxov 
 
 sQgavs xdvkitmrs, ndv 5' EmfntXato 
 
 vavayiav KgiaaZov imtixav niSov. 730 
 
 ■yvovs S' ou| ' Adrfvav 8siv6s ■^iotJtgdq>os 
 
 „ wtt i. „ , , , 
 
 £|« Ttaga&Tta, xavaxa/svsi, itagsis 
 
 xkvScov^ 'iqmtjtov iv [isda xvxtofisvov. 
 
 ijXavvB S' ea^aros fiiv, vaxigas 8' sj^tov 
 
 naXovs 'OgsoTrfs ta xeXel niaxiv q)igav. 735 
 
 6 8\ COS oga fidvov viv iXksksififiivov, t^' 
 
 o^vv Si' caxtov xiXa8ov ivasioas doais 
 
 naXois, 8ic3XEi, xd^iatodavxs ^vyd 
 
 rfKavvaxriv, tot' dXXos dXkod' axsgos 
 
 xaga 7tgo6dXX(av Imtixav o^tffidxav. 740 
 
 xal xovs fiiv uXXov? ndvxag daipaXsts 8g6[iovs 
 
 clgdovO'' 6 xXr'ifiav ogdos i^ ogOav 8icpgc3V • 
 
 Bjiana Xvcav yviav agiaxegdv 
 
 xdfiTtxovxos innov, XavOdvai axrjX'^v axgav 
 
 naiaas- sdgavas 5' d^ovos fiiaas %v6as, "''"" 745 
 
 xd^ dvxvycov aXiads • avv 8' iXigasxai 
 
 xfirfXGis tiidoi • xov 8s rtinxovxos TtiSco, 
 
HAEKTPA. 33 
 
 TiaXoi SiBditdgrfdav is fitaov 8g6[iov. 
 
 argaros S\ OTtcos oga, viv ix7t£7ttcax6Ta 
 
 Siipgav, av6)AoAw|s xov viaviav, 750 
 
 op Egya Sgdeas oTa kayxdvsi xaxd, 
 
 (pogovfisvos Ttgos oSSas, a,},?i.or' ovgava 
 
 axiXri ngotpaivav, h xi viv SitpgrfXaxai, 
 
 fioXie xar m^sdovTssiTtntxov Sgofiovj 
 
 skvaav alfiaxrigov, Saxs fiijSiva 755 
 
 yvavai {piXtav ISovx^ Sv adXiov Sifias, 
 
 xat VIV Ttvga xiuvxis svdvs, iv ^ga^st 
 
 X^Xxa [isyiaxov aafia Ssikaias cnoSov 
 
 <pkgov<siv dvSgis 0toxsov xsxayfiivoi, 
 
 onto? Ttaxgaas xv[i6qv ixXd^oi ^^dovos. 760 
 
 xoiavxd dot xavx' iaxiv, as [liv iv Xoyois, 
 
 dXysivd, xois S' tSovaiv, omsg stSofisv, 
 
 HeyidTa vtdvxcav av onan ' iya xaxeov. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 cpBv q)sv • x6 Ttdv S'^ Ssanoxai&i xois ndXai 
 ngdggi^ov, as soixsv, S(p6agxai ysvos. 765 
 
 Kui TTA IMNHStP A . 
 
 S Zsv, xi xnevxai noxegov svxv^'^ Xiycjj 
 if Sstvd fiiv, xigSrj 8i j Xvjirjgas S^ ^X^h 
 si xois ifiavT^s rov ^iov gw^cj xaxots. 
 
 nAi^AFJiros. 
 XI 8' S8' ddv(i£is, a yvvai, xa vvv koya ; 
 
 KATTAIMNHST PA. 
 
 8sivov TO xixxBiv ioxiv ' ov8i ydg xaxas 770 
 
 naa^ovxi [ittios av xsxjf ngoayiyvsrai. 
 
34: 2:O0OKAEOr2 
 
 nAiJArsiro2. 
 fidrr^v ap' ^ fists, as soixsv, ■^xofisv* 
 
 KA rTAIMNH2TPA 
 
 ovxoi ndxriv ys. nas yd§ av juarj^v Xiyois; 
 
 u fioi &av6vtos Ttiat' s/cav Tsxfi'^gia 
 
 ngoa^kOss, ooxls ttJs ifirjs ipv^rfs yiyas, 775 
 
 fiaaxcav dnoaxds xal xgocp^s ifx^s, qivyds 
 
 dns^svovTo • xai [i\ iitsl r^ads ^dovos 
 
 i^'^kdsv, ovx It' sTdsv • iyxaXSv Si [loi 
 
 cpovovs naxgaovs, Sslv' iTttjTtsiXsc leksiv 
 
 aiax' ovxs vvxxos vitvov out' £| ^fisgas 780 
 
 ifii (SxEyd^Eiv '^Svv aA,A' 6 ngoaxaxav 
 
 ^Qovos Sf^yi (i' ativ as d-avovfiivrfv. 
 
 vvv 8 ' — ^i"^P« ydg xjfS ' dnrfXldyriv (poSov 
 
 Ttgos xrjad'' ixsivov &' • ■^Ss ydg fisitav ^XdStf 
 
 ^vvoixos ^v fiot, xovfiov ixTtivovff'' dst 785 
 
 xjjv^rjs axgaxov aifiqi. — vvv 5' i'xrfXd nov 
 
 xav x^aS^ drtsiXav ovvs)^^ ^(isgEvisoiiev. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 oi'fA.01 xdXacva • vvv ydg oifta^ai ndga, 
 
 'Ogiaxa, xrjv ar^v ^vficpogdv, SO' a8' t^cav 
 
 Ttgos xtjoS ' vSgiUt firfTgos. ag ' s/si xaXas ; 790 
 
 KATTArMNH^TPA. 
 
 ovxoi ffv • xetvos d' as s^si xaXtas sxsi, 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dxovs, Nifiiai xqv &av6vxos dgxias. 
 
 KATTAIMNH2TPA. 
 
 tJxovcjsv &v Ssi, xdjtsxvgaasv xaAras. 
 
HAEKTPA. 35 
 
 TIAEKTPA. 
 
 v'Sgi^s. vvv ydg sviv^ovea Tvy^dvsis. 
 
 KJTTAIMNIISTPA. 
 
 ovxovv 'Ogiarj^s xat Gv itavasxov zdiSs. 795 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttsjtavfisd^ ■^fj.sts, ov^ oTtcos as navcofisv. 
 
 KATTAIMNHSTPA. 
 
 noXXcav otv rjxoiSf a |£v', a|ios Tvj^stv, 
 H TTJvS^ tjtavaas tjjis noXvyXaaaov ^oijs. 
 
 nAiAArsiro2. 
 ovxovv d,7to(}Tsi%oifi'' dv, si toS' sZ xvgsi. 
 
 KATTAIMNHSTPA. 
 
 ^xiciT ' • STtEiTtsg ovt ' ifiov xaxd^C dv ' 800 
 
 Ttgd^sias, ovzs lov nogsvaavTos ^ivov. 
 aAA' si'ijid' stda • Tijvds 5' sxtoOsv ^odv 
 sa xd &'' avxrjs xal xd xav ^i).av xaxd. 
 
 IIjlEK T PA. 
 
 dg' vfilv as aXyovaa xaSvvcojxivi^ 
 
 Ssivas Saxgvdai xdnixaxvaai doxsi 805 
 
 xov viov rj Svaxrivos aS ' oAcjAo'ra ; 
 
 «AA ' s-yysXacta (pgovSo?. a xdXaiv ' iya ■ 
 
 'Ogsaxa tptXxad', S? fx' dnaXsaas d'avtav. 
 
 dnoOTtdaa? ydg t^s sfirf? oi%si cpgsvos 
 
 ai fioi fjLovai Ttagjjaav sXTtiSmv sxi, 810 
 
 0s Ttaxgos ^§stv ^avxa xifxcagov noxs 
 
 xd^ov raXaivrig. vvv 8s not fis ^gi^ [loXsiv ; 
 
 Hovri ydg slf^i, ciov x' dnsaxsgrjfxivrf 
 
 xal Ttaxgos. rjSr^ Sst (is SovXsvsiv itdXiv 
 
 kv Totdcv sj^diaxoLOLv dv&gancov ifiol, 8i5 
 
36 HO^OKAEOTS 
 
 (povsvdi Ttargos. &gd (lot xaXas s%£i ; 
 
 dAA ' ov ri fin^v sytays tov Xoiitov %g6vov 
 
 ^vvoixos saaofi', dkXd rifSs ngos nvXtf 
 
 Jtagsia^ i^avTijv d(piXos avava ^iov. 
 
 ngos ravza xaivira res, si j3agvvsrai, 820 
 
 tav evSov ovxcov • m ^dgis fiiv, tjv xrdvif, 
 
 Xvnri S\ idv ^S • xov ^iov 5' ovSsts nodoe. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 nov TtOTS xegavvoi ^los, ?/ nov (paidav 
 
 "uiXios, si tavr' ifogavTSS 835 
 
 xgvTtTovaiv sxifXot ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 £ i, aiai. 
 
 
 
 a Ttat, Tt 
 
 Saxgvsis 
 
 X0P02. 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 q)£v. 
 
 [iriSiv [liy ' dvajjs. 
 
 djtoXsie. 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 
 
 TtSs ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 si Tav tpavsgas oixofiivav 
 £is 'AiSav iXniS' VTtoi- 
 
 asK, xai'' ifiov xaxofiivas 
 [idlkov insfiSdasi. 
 
 
 824- 
 
 -836. =837 — 848. 
 
 830 
 
 835 
 
HAEKTPA. 37 
 
 oida ydg avaxx ' 'Afjicpidgsav ^gvaio8sTOis 
 SQxsai xgvcpdivra yvvaixmv • 
 xat vvv vjtd 2'aias 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 £ £, 1(0. 840 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 ndfix^v^os dvdaasi. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 X O PO 2. 
 q)Ev S'^t' • okod yag — 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 sSdfiri ; 
 
 X0P02. 
 vat. 845 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 oTS' oiS' • ifpdvri ydg fisXirag ^ 
 
 dfift xov iv Ttivdsi ' ifiol 8' 
 ovTis ST sad • Off yag £t' ijv, 
 q>gov8os dvagitaadsis. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 8siXaia 8siXai(ov xvgsis. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xdyca tov8' i'atag, vTtsgiarcag, 660 
 
 Ttavavgttjp 7ta{X(i^vtp noXXav 
 8sivcav exvyvav t' aiavi. 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 
 si'Sofisv a &gosis. 
 
 849 — 859. = 860 — 870. 
 4 
 
38 i:O0OKAEOr2 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 fV^ (IS VVV (ITjftiTl 
 
 Ttagaydy^s, iv' ov 855 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 xi yjy's ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 Ttdgtiatv sXniSav en xoivotoxcdv 
 ivnaxgiSdv t' agcoyai. 
 
 X POS. 
 
 TtS.61 d'vatois i<pv [logos. . seo 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ^ xal xo^Xo^-gyots iv dfiik^is 
 ovTcas, C3S xaivca SvdTavca, 
 TfiTfTois oXxots lyxvgGai ; 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 d(Sxo7tos a ka6a. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttas ydg oi/x ; si ^ivos • 865 
 
 ttTsg i/xdv ^sgav 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 itanaX. 
 
 BAEKTPA. 
 
 ii^Tfsvdsv, ovTS Tov xdcpov dvTidttas 
 
 ovxs yocav nag'' ■^fiav. sro 
 
 XPrSO OEMIS. 
 v(p^ ■^Sovijs Toi, cpiXxdTri, Stcoxofxai, 
 xo xodfjuov fisdsiaa dvv xd^si [loXsTv. 
 tpigta ydg ifSovik xs, xavdnavXav av 
 
HAEKTPA. 39 
 
 ndgoiOsv stxs? xal xariarsrss xaxav. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 TTodtv S ' av svgois xav ifiav ov Ttfifidtav 875 
 
 agrj^iv, ois i'adcv ovx svsdi' iSsiv j 
 
 XPT20eEMI2. 
 
 TidgsffT' 'OgidTi^s rifilv, ladiTovx' i/xov 
 xXvovo \ ivagya?, a&Ttsg slaogas ifii. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 aAA' r( [isfiTfvas, to rdkaiva, xdnl rots 
 
 aavrijs xaxoiat xditl rot? sfiots yskdg ; 880 
 
 XPT20eEMI2. 
 
 fid rrjv noLxgaav iaziav, aAA' ojJ;^ vSgsi 
 Xiym Ta5', dkX' ixsivov ms nagovxa, vSv. 
 
 H dEKTPA. 
 
 ol'/j,oi xdXaiva, • xal xivos ^goxmv Xoyoif 
 zovS' staaxovtiac}', ads niaxsveis dyav ; 
 
 X PrSO EMI2. 
 
 ^■ya fiiv £| Efiov xt xovx dXXov aafp^ 883 
 
 arjfisi' tSovaa, xaSs Ttiaxavca Xdy^. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Tiv% S xdkaiv% ISovaa nidxiv ; is ri (loi 
 ^Xki^aed &dX7t£i xaS' dvrfxkaxca itvgi j 
 
 XPT20 e EMI2. 
 
 Ttgos vvv &Emv, axovdov, «s fxadovad fiov, 
 TO Xomov rl cpgovovaav rj ficogdv Xiyjfs. 890 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dv 8 ' ovv Xsy ', ei dot xa Xoya xi? 7\Sovi^. 
 
 XPTSO e EMI2. 
 
 xal Sij Xiya doi itdvodov xaxsidofirfv. 
 
40 2090KAE0T2 
 
 ijtst yaq ■^Xdov Ttargos dg^aiov xatpov, 
 
 bga xoXcavri? i| axgas vsoQgvTOVs 
 
 TiriyoL? ydkaxTOs, xal TtsgioTScpij xvx^a 89S 
 
 TtdvTcov od'' idTiv dvdiav ■d'jjxTfv naxgos. 
 
 iSovda, d* EGxov &avfxa, xal Ttsgiaxona 
 
 (Jill Ttov Tis i([iiv kyyvs iy%gifi7tTZf ^goxav. 
 
 as S' iv yaXip'jf Ttavx' idsgx6{iTjv Toitov, 
 
 TVfiSov Ttgoastgnov dcaov • iai^fdrrfs S ' oga 90e 
 
 Ttvgds vEogri ^ooxgv^ov TStfirifiivov • 
 
 xsvdvs TdXa.Lv ' ras aiSov, sintaisi xi [loC 
 
 yjv^p avvtjdss Ofifia, (pLXtdiov ^goxav 
 
 Ttdvxav ' OgkctxQv xavd ' bgdv xEXfii^giov • 
 
 xat xsgdi ^aaxdaaaa, Svatprffia (liv ov, 905 
 
 X(*-§d di TtL^TtXri^' avdvg o/xfxa Saxgvcov. 
 
 xal vvv d"* bfioLcos xal tot' a^sniaxafxat 
 
 fill xov ToS' dyXdJCaiia tiXt^v xsivov [loXslv. 
 
 X0 ydg Ttgoa^xsi TtX^v y ' ifiov xal gov toSs ; 
 
 xdya fiiv ovx sSgaaa, xovx' iniaxafiat^ 910 
 
 ovS ' ai (Sv. Ttcos ydg ; ^ ys ftrjSi jtgos &eovs 
 
 l|fOT' dxXavaxa xijaS' aTtotsx^vai axiyrjs. 
 
 dXX^ ovSi [liv 5j^ fir/xgos ovd' 6 vovs tpiXst 
 
 roiavxa ngddasiv ovxs SgSa' iXdvdavsv • 
 
 dXX^ £<Jx' 'Ogiaxov xavxa xditixifiia. 915 
 
 dXX'', a (piXri, d'dggvvE. xols avxolai xoi 
 
 ov/ avTos del Saifiovav nagaaxaxti. 
 
 vav 8'' r^v xd itgoaQav axvyvos ' ^ da vvv t'tfos 
 
 TtoXXSv vjtdg^ai xvgos r^iaga xaXav. 
 
HAEKTPA. 41 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 tpBv, xrjs dvoia? as <?' inoixTsigco ndXai. 920 
 
 xprso e liMis. 
 XL 8' sax IV ; ov 7t§m ifSovi^v Ksyco xaSs ; 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 avx oidd ' oTtoi j/rje ovS ' oTtoi yvaffq? fpigsi, 
 
 xp ryo BE MI 2. 
 nas 5' ovx iym xdieiS^ 3. y' sTSov ifupaviSs } 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 xidvrixsv, m rdXaiva • rdxsivov Si tsoi 
 
 oaxi^gi' I'ppEt • [irfSiv ig xaZvw y' oga. 925 
 
 XP TS e EMI2. 
 
 oi'fjioi xdKaiva • xov xdS ' rixovaas ^gox&v ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 TOW Ttkrfatov Ttagovxds, ■^vtx' eiAAwro. 
 
 XPT20 0EMI2. 
 
 xat Ttov ' axiv odxos ; &av[j,d xoi [x ' vitigxaxai, 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xar' olxov, ^Svs, ovdi firfxgl Svd/sgjjs. 
 
 XPTS O e EMI2. 
 
 oifioi xdXaiva • xov ydg dvdgancav itox ' ^v 930 
 xd TCoXXd naxgos ngos xdcpov xxsgCtSfiaxa ; 
 
 IIAE K TPA. 
 
 oT(iai [idXiax^ syays xov xEdvrfxoxos 
 (ivriiisL ' ' Ogidxov xavxa ngoaOaivat xivtL 
 
 XPTSOOEMIS. 
 
 a 8vaxv)(rjs • iyco Ss dvv x^9^ Xoyovs 
 
 xoiovaS' E^ova' sanEvSov, ovx slSvi' aga 9W 
 
 iV n[X£v dxrjS • dXXd vvv, od' Ixo^rfv, 
 
 4* 
 
42 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 rd t' bvra ngoadiv a.'k'ka &' Evgiaxo xaxd. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ovros e'^si col xavt' • idv ds fioc Ttidjf, 
 rijs vvv Ttagovai^s m^fiovijs XvOBis ^agos. 
 
 XPrSO EMI2. 
 
 ^ rove d'avovxa.s l^avaaxriCto noxi ; 940 
 
 HAEKTPA. I 
 
 ovx saO^ o y' slnov • ov ydg ad' acpgav £q)vv. 
 
 XPT2 e EMIS. 
 
 xi ydg xsXsvsis Sv eyd tpsgayyvos ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xXiivai (S£ dgSciav av iyd nagaivacca. 
 
 XPTJ^OOEMIS. 
 aAA' ei' xis acpeXsid y\ ovx dTtaao[iai. 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 bga, Ttovov xoi ;^«pts ovSiv svxv^si. 945 
 
 XPT20 0EMI2. 
 
 bgm. ^vvoidca ndv oeovnsg av adivo. 
 
 IIAEK TPA. 
 
 dxovs S^l vvv ^ ^s6ovXEVfiai xsXnv. 
 
 nagovaiav fxsv oiada xal av nov cpiXmv 
 
 <5s ovxis ii(ilv iaxiv, dkk' "AiSiifs XaSiav 
 
 dnsaxigffXB, xal fiova keXsififisdov. 950 
 
 iyd S\ k'as fiiv xov xaaiyvTfTov ^ia 
 
 &d?.Xovxd x' sioTJxovov, si%ov iXniSas, 
 
 cpovov Ttox' avxov Ttgdxxog'' i^saOai naxgos • 
 
 vvv 8' ifvix'' ovx ax' saxiv, sis as Sjj ^Xinca, 
 
 oTtas xov avxoxBiga naxgaov cpovov ..j5 
 
 |vV TfliS' ddsX<pj} fjirf xaxoxvijans xxavttv, 
 
HAEKTPA. 43 
 
 A'iyic&ov. ovSiv ydg as Sst ■xgtJTtTaLv fi' i'rt. 
 
 not ydg fisvsLS gadvfios, sis rev'' iknidcav 
 
 ^Xiipaa^ sr' ogdi^v ; y Ttdgaari fiiv azivsiv 
 
 TtXomov naxgcoov xxijaiv iazsgrffisv^, seo 
 
 Ttdgsari 5' dXystv is zoaovSs tov ^govov 
 
 dksKxga yrfgdaxovaav dvvfiivaid xs. 
 
 ocal xavds fiEvxot, fXTfxix' IXniaifs ontos 
 
 xsv^si Ttox'. ov ydg &S' d,6ovX6s idz' dviqg 
 
 AiyiaQos, Sdxs aov nox' ^ xdfiov ysvos 965 
 
 BXadxsiv idaai, nr^fiov-qv avxS aacprj. 
 
 aAA' ijv iniOTiff xoie ifiols ^ovXsvfiaaiv, 
 
 ngaxov fiiv svaiSsiav ix naxgos xdxco 
 
 &av6vxos oi'asi, xov xadiyvqxov &' dfxa' 
 
 smtxa 8\ aansg i^iq)vs, iXsvdkga 970 
 
 xaXsi xo XoiTtov, xai yd[j.av Ina^icov 
 
 xsv^H. (piXsi ydg ngos xd xgrfOxd Ttds ogdv. 
 
 Xoya ys [xr^v svxkstav ov^ ogds ocsr^v 
 
 aavxjj xs xdnot ngodSaXsis nsiddeiad fioi ; 
 
 xis ydg nox' daxav rf ^ivcov ■^[xds iSav 973 
 
 xoLolaS' iuaivois ov%l Ssiiaasxai ; 
 
 "ISsads xaSs xd xaaiyv^xa, ipiXoi, 
 
 a xov Ttaxgaov olxov i^sdcoodxriv, 
 
 m xotaiv i^Ogois ev ^sSi^xoacv noxi 
 
 xpv^'^s dfSidrjaavTS Ttgovarrjxi^v tpovov. 988 
 
 xovra (fiXaZv X9V' ^^^^ X9V ^oi^^ois (SbSeiv 
 
 To5' EV d-' iogxats ev xe navS^fia noXai 
 
 xifidv dnavxas ovvex ' dv8gEias xgEav. — 
 
 xoiavxd xoi vd nds xis i^sgsi ^goxdv. 
 
44 2O0O KAEOT2 
 
 ^asaiv d'avovaaiv &^ aars fir} '■x^.iTtsiv xXsos. 985 
 ctAA', a (plXri, Ttsiadrfti, avfjiTtdvai natgi, 
 avyxafiv' aSsXtpa, navaov ex xaxav ifii, 
 navdov 8i aavrrjv, xovxo yiyvaoxova', oil 
 t^iv alaxgov aiaxgms xols xaXas necpvxoaiv. 
 
 XO P02. 
 
 iv Tois TOiovTOi? lexlv rj ngofii^dia 990 
 
 xal xa XsyovxL xal xXvovxl (Jvfifia^os. 
 
 xp rso EMI2. 
 xal ngiv ys (pcavsiv, m yvvatxss, si cpgSvSv 
 EXvy/oLv' avxrf (irj xaxSv, iaa^sx^ av 
 xrjv EvXdSsiav, Savtsg ovxl (Sa^sxai. 
 TtoZ ydg nox'' ifiSkiyjaoa, xoiovxov &gd(fOs 995 
 avxri &' OTzXi^si, xdfi^vTirigsxsiv xaksis ; 
 ovx stdogas ; yvvq [i£V, ovS' dviqg £(pvs, 
 a&ivsis S' sXaaaov xav ivavxiav j^sgi, 
 Sacficov di xols [liv evxvxrjs xad' ■^fiigav, 
 ■^{iiv 5' djtoggsZ xani fxtfSiv sg^sxat. " looo 
 Tis oZv, XOIOVXOV dvSga ^ovXevov eXsiv, 
 akvTZos dxi^s E^anaXXa}(d'^6£xai ; \ 
 oga, xaxas ngdaaovxE firj [lEi^m xaxd 
 xxri^afiEd'', El xts xovaS' dxovdExai Xoyovs. 
 kv£i ydg ffiid? ovSiv ovS' iTtatpE^Ei 1005 
 
 /3a|£j/ xaXffv XaSovxs SvaxkEcos &UvEtv. 
 ov ydg &av£tv exdiaxov, aAA' oxav &avEiv 
 Xgv^cov xis Eixa. fiijSi xovx' E^jf kaSEiv. 
 aAA' dvxidta, ngiv navakidgovg x6 ndv 
 ri^d? t' oXiadai xd^s^riuaaai yivoe, 1010 
 
HAEKTP A. 45 
 
 dq^rfz^ iya aoi xdiaXrj qsvXd^Ofiai, 
 avTiq Ss vovv a^is dXXd xa x§ova jtors, 
 cdkvovaa fjLTjdiv rots xgaxovaiv stxadsiv. 
 
 XOPO2:. 
 Itsidov. Ttgovoias ovdsv dvOg&nois 'icpv 1015 
 
 xsgdos XaSsiv dfisLvov, ovdi vov aocpov, 
 
 HAEKTP A. 
 
 aTtgoaSoTcrjjov ovSiv sigr^xas' xaXas d' 
 
 ^dtf a' djtpgghpovaav dTnjyysXXofirfv. 
 
 «AA' avxoxEigi [loi [lovjf xs Sgaaxiov 
 
 Tovgyov xd8' ' ov ydg S)^ xsvov y^ dffqdo^Ev. 1020 
 
 XPT20QEMI 2. 
 (pEV • 
 
 sW acpsXss ToidSs T^V yvafiriv jtaxgos 
 ^v^axovros ELvat • ndvxa ydg xaxtigydda. 
 
 HAEKTP A. 
 
 dkX' f^v cpvuiv yE, xov Si vovv rjodcov tote, 
 
 XPT20eEMI2. 
 
 daxEi TOiavxtf vovv 81 ' alavog (ieveiv. 
 
 HAEKTP A. 
 
 as ov/l avvSgdaovtia vovBsxste xdSs. 1025 
 
 XPT2 eEMI2. 
 
 stxos ydg iy^Etgovvxa xal ngdaoEiv xaxcas. 
 
 HAEKTP A. 
 
 ^nXa (S£ XOV vov, xijs di SsiXia? cxvya. 
 
 XPTSO 0EMI2. 
 
 dvi^ajjiai xXvovaa j^axav ev Xiyrfs. 
 
46 UO^OKAEOTS 
 
 JIAEK TPA. 
 
 dXr ov TtoT' ii ifiov ys jxrj TiddifS %68s. 
 
 XPrSO 0EMI2 . 
 
 fxaxgos to xgtvai xavra ;^e) koinos XQOvoe. 1030 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 aualds. col ydg acpilrjOis ovx evi. 
 
 XPT2 EM12. 
 
 EVBOxiv ' dXXd 601 [iddriais ov ndga. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ikdovda firiTgl xavxa Ttdvr' stents ajf, 
 
 XPT200 EMI2. 
 
 ov§' av XO0OVTOV £)(6os i^daigca o' iya. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dXX' odv sniaxa y' oT fi'' dxifiias Siysis. 1035 
 
 XPTSO QEMIS. 
 
 dzLfitas fiiv ov, Ttgofir^dias Si gov. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 TM tfra Sixaia d^x' iTtiajteadai fis 8si} 
 
 XPTSOOEMIS. 
 
 pxav ydg ii cpgovjjg, xod' riyr^asi av vav. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 iq Ssivov sv Xkyovoav i^afiagxdvsiv. 
 
 XPT2 OOEMI2. 
 
 si'gTfxas ogdas a av Ttgogxsiaat xaxa. 1040 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xi S' ; ov doxa aoi xavxa avv Sixjf Xiysiv j 
 
 XPrS00EM12. 
 
 aAA' saxiv svda ^i^ Stxij ^XdSijv (pigsi. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xovxois iya ^rjv xois voiiois ov ^ovXo(iai* 
 
HJ.EKTPA. 47 
 
 XPT2O0EMI2. 
 
 dkV si Ttoc^asis xavj', inatviaeis ifis. 
 
 HAEKrPA. 
 
 x&l jiTiv Ttoirjdoa y^ ovSiv kxTtXayslad as. 1045 
 
 xpt:so0j<:mi2;. 
 xat tovt' dXridi?, ovSs ^ovksvasi ndXiv ; 
 
 HylEKTPA. 
 
 ^ovX^e ydg ovSsv iariv s^^diov xaxijs. 
 
 XPTSOOEMIS. 
 
 (pgovuv sotxas ovdiv av iyco kiya. 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 ndXai SidoxTat ravra, xov vsaart fioi. 
 
 XPrSO 0EMI2. 
 
 ffjtELHi Toivvv. ovTE ydg <sv td(.i' STtrj 1050 
 
 tbXfids inaivaiv, ovr' iyco tovs govs xgonovs. 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 dkV staid\ ov aoi firi [ledhpo^iai nozB, 
 01/5' Tqv acpoSg^ tfislgovaa. rvy^dvrfs • ijisi 
 TtoX^^'^s dvoias xal to &7jgdadai xevd. 
 
 XPrSO EMI2. 
 
 dkV si asavTfj tvyxdvsi? doxovad xi 1055 
 
 q)govfTv^ (pgovsi roiavd'. oxav ydg iv xaxois 
 ^jSii ^sd^xjjf?, rdfi' sTtaivsosis STtrf. 
 
 XO P 02. 
 
 Tt TOWS dvcodsv cpgoviixaxdrov? olcovovg 
 
 iaog^nsvoc rgocpd? xriSofisvovs d<p' av ts /SAatfro- 
 
 div dtp' av r' bvaaiv svgaai, zdd' ovx in' toas 
 
 TsXovfiiv ; 1061 
 
 1058 — 1069. = 1070 — 1081. 
 
48 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 aAA ', ov rdv ^los dargaTtdv 
 
 xal Tttv ovgaviav ©ifiiv, 
 
 8ag6v ovx dnovrfToi. 1065 
 
 a xdovia ^goxotai q)d^a, xaxd [loi ^oadov otxrgdv 
 
 oTta, TOis evsgO' 'AxgiiSais, d^ogEvta tpigova'' 
 
 ovsiStf • 
 oil dtptv rjdrf xd fiiv ex dofiav votSEi* 1070 
 
 xd Si Jtgos xixvav 8LTtXi\ (pvXonis ovx ex' i^i- 
 
 aovxai 
 (piXoxaoia Siaixa. ngoSoxo? di [idva aaXsvEi 
 'Hkixxga, xov del itaxgos 1075 
 
 dsiXaia tixEvd/ova', ontos 
 a TtdvSvgxos dr/dav, 
 oilxE XL xov &avEiv 7igo(jn^drjs, x6 xs fitj ^XsitEiv 
 
 Exoifia, 
 Sibvfiav iXova'' 'Egivvv. xis dv avTtaxgis aSs 
 ^XddxoL ; 1080 
 
 ovSels xcov dyadav ydg, 
 tSv xaxas, avxXnav aid^vvai O'eXei 
 vdvvfios, a Ttat itai, 1084 
 
 as xal (Sv ndyxXavTOv aiava xoivov siXov, 
 x6 firj xaXov xadonXiaaaa, 8vo (pEgaiv iv svi koya, 
 cofpd t' dgiaxa xe nats xsxX'^adai. 
 ^mf? (lOL xadvTtEgdav 1090 
 
 X^i^gi xal nXovxa xicov i^Ogav, odov 
 vvv VTto^Eig vaiEis ' 
 
 EJtEi tf' E(pEvgrixa [loiga fiiv ovx iv iadXd 
 1082 — 1089. ^ 1090 — 1097. 
 
HAEKTPA. 49 
 
 ^sSaaav ' & di iikyiax ' sBXaaxE v6(ii{ia, xavSs 
 
 (pEgO(lEvaV 1095 
 
 agiara x^ Zrjvos svasSsia. 1097 
 
 PESTHS. 
 
 Hg*, a yvvaixss, ogdd x' sidrfxovaafisv, 
 ogdas 5' oBontogovusv h'vda }(gjf^o[i£v ; 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 xi 8' i^Egsvvas, xal xt ^ovXtfdsle ndgsi ; llOO 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 Aiyiadov IV0' axj^xsv laxoga ndkai. 
 
 XOPO2. 
 aAA' sd &' IxdvEis, %eo cpgdaa? d^rf/iios. 
 
 0PE2TII2. 
 
 xis ovv oLv Vfxav xotg e'ffa (pgdtisisv av 
 'f][iav nodsLvriv xoivojtovv nagovaiav ; 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 rlS\ ft xov dyxidxov j/s xrigvaasiv xgsav. 1105 
 
 0PE2TH2:. 
 
 l'&', a yvvai, Si^Xaoov slaskdova', on 
 0c)xrjs fiaxEvova' dvSgss Aiyiadov xivss. 
 
 HJ.EKTPA. 
 
 oifioi xdXaiv', ov Sjj nod' ■^s rixov6a[i£v 
 q>rjfirjs cpigovxss ifjupav^ xaxfi-^gia ; 
 
 OPE2TH2. 
 
 ovx oTSa xrjv criv xki^dov' • dlkd [loi yigmv liio 
 i(p£ix' 'Ogioxov 2Ixg6q)io? dyysiXai itsgi. 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 iL d' scsxLV, a |fV' / MS fi' VTtigxBxai (p66os. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 (pigovxs? avxov (Jfiixgd Xsiipav' iv ^ga,%at 
 
50 20^0KAE0Y2 
 
 Tsv;(H &av6vToe, as bga?, xo(ti^ouEv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 OL ^;/M TaXaiva, tovt' ixscv' rfdri dacpts' 1115 
 
 TtQOj^sigov a^Oos, as soixa, Sigxafiai. 
 
 PESTI12. 
 
 siTtsg Ti xXaiaLS rav 'OgsOTsiav xaxav, 
 ToS' ayyos I'ddi, aafia xovxaivov ajsyov. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 a ^sivs, Sos vvv itgos ■d'eav, etTZsg roSs 
 xaxEvdsv avTQv tsv^os, ais ;^ftj)as XaSaiv, 1120 
 
 oTtas ifiavtrjv xal yavos to nav 6(iov 
 §vv TjjSa xXavGa xaitoSvgafiai ajtoSa. 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 
 Sod'"', rJTis ItfTi, Ttgodcpigovzas. ov ydg as 
 
 Ev SvafiEVEia, -y' ova' EnaLXEtxaL xads, 
 
 dXk' -^ (piXav XLS, rj Ttgos aifiaxos (pvaiv. 1125 
 
 HylE KTPA. 
 
 a (piXxaxov (ivrifiEiov dvdganav ifioi 
 
 yjv^'^s 'Ogiaxov Xoinov, as ff' uti^ iXniSav 
 
 ovx avjtsg i^ETtSfiTfov EUiaSa^dfirjv. 
 
 vvv fiav ydg ovSav ovxa ^aaxd^a }(agoiv, 
 
 Sofiav 8a a', a itai, Xafingov a^inafiyj' iyca, 1130 
 
 as acpaXov ndgoidsy ExXmalv ^lov, 
 
 Ttglv is ^Evr^v da yaiavixTtafixpai, %Egoiv 
 
 xXayjaaa xulvSe, xdvaaaaaadai (povov, 
 
 OTtas &avdv axacao xfj x6&' 7j(iaga, 
 
 TVfi6ov Ttaxgcpov xoivov atXri}/as ffigos. 1135 
 
 vvv 8' axxos oi'xav xdnt yi^s aXXr^s cpvyds 
 
HAEKTPA. 61 
 
 xaxas avtakov, aijs xaaiyv^xrf? Si^a • 
 
 tcovt' iv (piXaiai %£§aiv -^ xaXaiv'' iyco 
 
 kovzgoLs ixddfitfa', ovxs na^cpXixTov nvgos 
 
 avsikofti^v, ms sixos, adXiov ^dgos. ll4o 
 
 aAA' iv ^ivouai xsgal xrfdsvdale zaAas 
 
 (Sficxgos Ttgoa-qxiis oyxos iv a/xixgS x-6th. 
 
 oi'fioi rdXaiva rrjs ifiijs ndXai rgoq)rjs 
 
 dv(ocpBi.7ftov, Trjv iyd &d{ii' d[i(pl dot 
 
 Ttovto yXvxBt nagiexov. ovts ydg nans 1145 
 
 firjjgog av y^ ^ada (jmXXov 7} xdfiov cpiXos, 
 
 ovd' 01 xar' oixov rjaav, dXk' iya rgocpos' 
 
 iyo 5' ddskfT] Got Ttgoa7(v8&(ir(v dsi. 
 
 vvv d' ixXiXoCTtE ravr' iv tlfiiga. [ilo, 
 
 d'avovxa avv aoi. ndvTU ydg avvagndaas, 1150 
 
 d'lfsXX ' OTCC3?, ^sSrfxa?. oi^srat jtaTtjg • 
 
 xiOvtfx' iyca aoi • (pgovSos avxog si &ava>v ' 
 
 yskcoai S' i^dgoi' (laivsxai S' vcp^ ^Sov^e 
 
 l^^xTfg dfiTJxog, ^g ifiol av noXXdxig 
 
 (pTJfiag Xddga Ttgovnsfinsg, ag (pavov^svos 1155 
 
 xificogog avxog. dXXd xavd' 6 Svcfxvxrle 
 
 Saificov 6 aog xs xdfiog i^acpsiXsxo, 
 
 6's 0' SSi jjioi Ttgov/tsfixpsv, dvxl tpiXxdxrfg 
 
 [iog<pjjg anoSov xe xal axidv dvaxpsXjf. 
 
 oi'flOl fJLOl. 1160 
 
 a difiag olxxgov. tpsv (psv. 
 
 a Ssivoxd.xag, oifioi (loi, 
 
 TtSfKpdsig xsXsvdovg, (piXxad', Sg fi' dntaXidae' 
 
 dnaXeaas Srjr\ m xaaiyvrixov xdga. 
 
52 HOOOKAEOm 
 
 TOiydg dv Se^ai fi' is to aov rods dxsyos, 1165 
 
 Tj^v [/,i^8iv SIS TO [irfSiv, cos avv aoi xaxa 
 
 vaica TO XoLvtov. xal ydg -^vix^ ^a&' avca, 
 
 |uv ffol [iexeTj^ov xav locov * xal vvv noOca 
 
 xov aov &avovga firj 'jtoXsiitsadai xdcpov, 
 
 xovs ydg ■d'avovxois ov^ bga XvTtovfiivovs- 1170 
 
 XOPOS. 
 
 dvtfxov nitpvxas naxgos, 'HXixxga, tpgovsi • 
 ■dvTiros S' 'Ogiaxi^s ' aaxs fiij Xiav axivs. 
 Ttddiv ydg ■^fj.iv tovt' ocpsiXsxai nadsiv. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 <psv (psv. xi Xi^co } not Xoyav dfuj^avav 
 
 sXdta ; xgaxEiv ydg ovx txi yXaaaris ddsvca. 1175 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xi 8' sa^ss dXyoe; ngos xi xovx' stnav xvgsis ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ^ aov x6 xXsivov siSos 'HXixxgas xoSs ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xoS' sax' ixsivo, xal fidX' ddXicos sxov. 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 
 oTfioi xaXaivTjs dga xiiaSs avfitpogas. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xi 8'q Ttox', S liv', aficp ' ifiol axivHS xd8s ; 1180 
 
 OPE 2TH2. 
 
 a aSfji^ dxifieos xd&icas itpdagfisvov. 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 ovxoi Ttox' aXXijv ^ '(is SvacpTjixsis, |ivs. 
 
 0PE2THS. 
 
 (psv x^s avvjitpov Svafiogov xs ai\s xgotpns. 
 
HAEKTPA. 53 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xi Sij Ttox ', & |fv', aS' inLOxonav ozivsis ; 
 
 0PE2TII2. 
 
 as ovx ag ' 1^5?; rav ifiav ovSiv xaxav. 1185 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 iv xa Stsyvcjg xovxo xav sigrffxivcav ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ogmv 6E TtoXXois ifiTtgiiiovaav akysdiv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xal iiiqv ogae ys itavga xav ifiSv xaxav. 
 
 0PE2T.HS . 
 
 xat Ttas yivoix' otv xavd' h' ixdca ^Xiitsiv ; 
 
 HJEKTPA. 
 
 odovvsx^ Bi[it xots cpovsvai avvxgotpos. 1190 
 
 OPE^TH^. 
 
 xois xov ; nodav xovx' i^eajjfirfvas xaxov ; 
 
 HylEKTPA. 
 
 xoie Ttaxgos. aha xoiada SovXavco jSi'a. 
 
 PE^'THS. 
 
 xif ydg 0' dvdyxif xjjda n^oxganai ^goxSv j 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 [irftrig xaXaixai • fXT^xgi 5' ovSav i^caot. 
 
 PE2TU2. 
 
 xi 8ga(ta ; noxaga x^galv, rj Avftj^ ^lov ; 1195 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xal ^sgdl xat Xvfiaici xat ndaiv xaxots. 
 
 0PE2TU2:. 
 
 ovS'' ovTtagrj^av ov8 ' 6 xcaXvaav ndga ; 
 
 HylEKTPA. 
 
 ov 8^6^. OS r^v ydg fioL av ngovdTfxa'S (SnoSotf^ 
 
 5* 
 
54 2O0OKAEOr2 
 
 0PK2T h:^. 
 ^ 8v(S7tOTn', as bgav o' enoixTSiQa ndKai. 
 
 JIAEKTPA. 
 
 fiovos Pgojav vvv iad' inoixreigas Ttoje. i200 
 
 0PE2TII2. 
 
 [lovos yog ^xa xoZol aots aky&y xaxois. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ov Srj nod ' i/jMtv ^yysvijs rjxsis rtoOiv ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 iya (pgdaaifi' oiv, ai to rmv8' svvovv ndga. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 aXV iaxlv svvovv, Saxs ngo? niaxds igsis. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 fisdsg ToS' dyyos vvv, ottos to ndv [jiddjjs. 1205 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 fi-q 8'^xa, Ttgos &£av, xovxo fi' igyda^, §£vs. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 Ttsidov Xiyovxi xov^ dfiagx^aii noxi. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 firf, Ttgos ysvsLov, firj ' ^Sktf xd (piXxaxa, 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 
 OV (pri(i^ idauv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 to xdXaiv' iya aidsv, 
 'Ogiaxa, t^? tfjjis ei (fTsg^aofiai xatpiis. 1210 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 evcprjfjia (pavsi. ngos Sixtfs ydg ov axivsis. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttm xov d'avofx ' dSsXcpov ov Sixff axiva ; 
 
HAEKTPA. 55 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ov 001 Ttgodijxsi TijvSs ngoatpavsiv tpaxiv. 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 0VTC3S azijuds sifii tov tsBvtjxotos ; 
 
 0PESTII2. 
 
 arifjios ovSevoe (fif • rovto 8 ' ov^l <i6v. 1216 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 sinsg y' 'OgidTov dSfia ^aarata toSs, 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 aAA' ovx 'Ogiarov, nX'qv Xoyta y' ^(Sxijfiivov. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttov 5' sax' ixEivov tov rakainagov Tatpos ; 
 
 O PE2TH2. 
 
 ovx EdTi. TOV ydg Z^vtos ovx sOtiv Tacpos. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttas siTtas, a nai ; 
 
 O PE2TH2. 
 
 rpsvSos ovSiv Sv Xiya. 1S20 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ■insg Sfiyjv^os 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 sinsg sfiyjv^os y' iyci. 
 
 ^ ydg av xstvos ; 
 
 PE2TH2. 
 
 T-qvSs TtgoadXiyjaad fiov 
 etcpgaytSa Ttmgos, sxfjiad-' si aa<f^ Xsyo. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 & tpikTaxov tpas. 
 
56 2:O0OKAEOT2 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 fptXTaxov, avfifiagzvga. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 S (p&syfi', dtpixov ; 
 
 OPliSTJIS. 
 
 |M?^/C£t' aXkoQiv nvdif, 1225 
 
 H^EKTPA. 
 
 OPEZT112. 
 as Tct koiTt' E^OLS asL 
 
 HAEKT PA. 
 
 a (piXxaxaL yvvatxE?, a noXixiSe?, 
 ogdx'' 'OgiaxTfv xovSs, firj^avaitii ^liv 
 ■d'avovxa, vvv Si firf%avaig asaadfiivov. 
 
 X OPO 2. 
 ogm^iBv, m Jiai, xanl avficpogatai (loi 1230 
 
 ysyrfdos sgnsi Saxgvov o^^idxcov ano. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 ia yovai, 
 
 yovai acafidxav ifiol cpiXxdxav, 
 ifioXsx' dgxias, 
 icpsvgsx', tjXBst', si'Sed' ov? i%gjf^Exs. 1235 
 
 pe:stji:s. 
 7tdgs6fiEv ' dXkd Ciy' s^ovda Ttg6<S[iEvi, 
 
 H.J EKTPA. 
 
 Tt 3' EGxiv ; 
 
 0PE2TII2.. 
 
 CLydv afiEivov, fiij xis svSodsv xXvjj. 
 
 1232—1253. z=: 1253 — 1272. 
 
HAEKTPA. 57 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dkk' ov idv "'Aqthilv 
 
 xdv aiiv aSfi-qxav, 
 
 xoSs (iiv ov Ttoz' d^iaaa jgiaai 1240 
 
 7ts§i(Sadv dj^dos tvSov yvvatxav ov dsL 
 
 PE2TH2. 
 
 oga ys fiiv joi, xdv yvvai^iv m "Agrfs 
 evsariv sS 5' s^oioOa neigadecad nov. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 OTOTOTOTOl rOTOl, 1245 
 
 dvEcpsXov iitiBakse, ov nors xarakvoifiov, 
 ' ovdi noTS ?.7ja6n£vov, d^hsgov 
 oTov £cpv, xaxov. 1250 
 
 PEJ!TH2. 
 
 a^oiSa xat rawr' • dXk' oxav nagovdca 
 q)gdtHi TOT ' Bgyav ravSs (isfjiv^adat ^^gs&v. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 6 nds ifiol 
 
 6 nds dv Ttgknoi nagcov ivvinsiv 
 
 xdSs 8ixa ^govos. 1255 
 
 H6kis ydg aaxov vvv iXsvdsgov 6x6[ia. 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 
 §vfi(pri(J,i xdya. xoiyagovv ga^ov xoSs. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xi SgSda ; 
 
 OPE 2TH2. 
 
 ov fiTf 'axi xaigos, [i-q (laxgdv ^ovXov Xeysiv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 xis ovv dv d^iav 1260 
 
58 2O0OKAEOT2 
 
 ys, dov TtsqirivoTO?^ 
 
 (lExaSdXoLt^ ctv aSs aiydv Xoyav ', 
 
 insl tss vvv dfgddTas diknxas t' iasiSov. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 TOT ' siSss, OTS d'soi fi'' sTtaTQwav [ioXbiv 
 
 * * * * 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 tfpgaeas vnsgxsgav 1265 
 
 Ttts ndgos sri %dgiTOS, si' as ■d'sos inogidsv 
 dfisTsga Ttgoe [isXaOga • SaLfioviov 
 avxo Tidtifi sya. " 1370 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 rd (lev tf' oxvm ^(aigovaav sigyadsiv, ra 5s 
 8s8oixa Xiav ifSovQ vLxmfisvriv. 
 
 JlylEKTPA. 
 
 1(0 xgova [laxga (piXxdxav 
 
 686v STta^iaoas aSs fxoL (pav^vai, 
 
 fiij xi [IS, noXvnovov <55' iStov 1275 
 
 0PE2THS. 
 
 xi firi novfpa ; 
 
 H^AEKTPA. 
 
 (iij (I ' anoaxsg^afis 
 Tov aSv ngoaSnav rfSovdv fisBsadai. 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 
 ^ xdgxa xdv dXkoiat &vfA,oi(ii^v ISav. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ivvaivsts ; 
 
 0PE2THS. 
 XI (i-qv ov ; 128o 
 
HAEKTPA. 59 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 S (fiXai, axXvov dv iym ovS^ eiv ijXTtid' avSdv, 
 
 ea^ov ogydv 
 
 avavSov, ovds dvv /3oa xXvovtsa 
 
 TaXaiva. vvv S' s^co tff 7tQovq)dvrfs Si 1285 
 
 (pikrdzav e^av ngooioyjiv, 
 
 as lya ovS' dv iv xaxots Xadoifiav. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 Ttt (liv 7C£gt(S<faiJ0VTa rmv Xoyov d<p£e, 
 
 xal [iT^XE [i^iriQ OS xaxrj dtSadxi fis, 
 
 fi'jjd ' ws nargmav xxi^aiv Aiyiados Sd^ieav 1290 
 
 dvxksi, td 3' ix^si, xd Si Siaaitsigsi ftdxtfv. 
 
 j^govov ydg dv dot xaigov i^figyoi Xoyos. 
 
 d S ' dgij,6(jsi fioi xa nagovxi vvv %gova 
 
 0}j{iaiv', OTtov cpavsvxsg iq xexgv^fiivoi 
 
 yskSvxas i^dgovs navdo^sv xjj vvv oSa. 1295 
 
 ovxa? S ', oTtcos (irftr^g 6s fi'^ ' TfiyvaOixat 
 
 (faiSgS TtgoOmTim, vav InsXdovxoiv S4fiovs ' 
 
 dXX 'off in' dx{f xjj fidxrjv Xs^syfiivy 
 
 axEvaV • oxav ydg avxv}(rjac3iJisv, xoxs 
 
 ^aigaiv nagidxai xal yskdv iXavdsga?. 1300 
 
 HAMKTPA. 
 
 dXX', a xaaiyvriO\ aS' onca? xal dot cpiXov, 
 
 xal xovfiov a'dxai xrjS' ' anal xds -^Sovde., 
 
 Ttgog 60V Xa6ov6a, xovx ifjbd?, ixxridd/A-rfv. 
 
 xovS' dv as Xv7f^6a6a ^ovXoifxriv ^ga^v 
 
 avxrf fiay' avgaiv xigSos. ov ydg dv xaXSs 1^05 
 
 vjtrigaxoitjv xa nagovxi Saiiiovi. 
 
60 2O0OKAEOr2 
 
 aAA' oToda [isv rdvdivSs, nas ydg ov ; xXvcov 
 
 oOovvsx^ Aiyiados fisv ov xard axeyas, 
 
 (I'qT'HQ S' iv oi'xois • 'r\v 0v [iij Ssiojjs nod', c.s 
 
 ysXcoTi cpaiSgov xovfiov oyjsrai xdga. 1310 
 
 fxidos T£ ydg naXaiov ivrixi^xi fioi, 
 
 xditEi ff' iasiSov, ov not'' ixXrj^cj x^^Q^^ 
 
 SaxgvggoovfSa. nas ydg dv X^^aifi' iyta, 
 
 ■^ris fiM as TjjiS' b8a Oavovxa te 
 
 xai ^cavr' idsiSov ; sigyaaai 8i |tt' daxojta' 1315 
 
 eo'tfr' si TtaT^g fioi ^av ixono, fiijxsT' dv 
 
 rigas vofii^Biv amo, maxsvEiv 5' bgdv. 
 
 ox'' ovv xoiavxffv -q^lv i^ijxsis 686v, 
 
 agx'' avxos Ss aoi d'viios. m iya (lovri 
 
 ovx dv Svoiv ^(jiagxov • ^ ydg dv xa,Xas 1320 
 
 lootf' ifiavxr^v, ^ xakas ditcaXofiriv. 
 
 XOPOS. 
 ctiydv injfVEO^ • m in'' i^oSa xXva 
 xav svdodsv %cogovvxos. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 si'aix ', a ^ivoi, 
 aAAos xs xai cpigovxss oP dv ovxs xi? 
 Sofiav dnadaix', owt' dv <f]6d£iri XaSav. 1325 
 
 HAiJ Arsiros. 
 a nXsidxa (lagot xat ^gsvav xrfxc)(iEvoi, 
 noxBga nag' ovSiv xov ^iov xi^Ssad' sxi, 
 7} vovs IvBCxiv ovxis vfitv iyysvTfg, 
 ox' ov nag' avxois, dXX' iv avxoidiv xaxoie 
 xolciv fiByiaxois ovxEs ov yiyvaaxsxs ; 1330 
 
HAEKTPA. 61 
 
 a^A' £1 (tradfioidi rotaSs (irf 'xvgovv sya 
 
 TtaXai tpvkdacKov, ^v otv vftiv iv Sofiois 
 
 Ttt Sga^Ev'' vfiSv TtgoaOsv ^ rd aafiaxa • 
 
 vvv 8' £vXa6siav rSvSs Ttgovdifjirjv lyo). 
 
 xal vvv, dnaXXaxdivxB xmv [laxgav Xoyav 1335 
 
 xal xifs ditXTJaxov rrjaSs avv xagd jSo^s, 
 
 ataa nagiXOsO', 6s to {isv (iskXsiv xaxov 
 
 iv Toiff Toioviois I'tfr', dntiXXd^dai 8' dxfv^, 
 
 0PESTH2. 
 JCOS oZv £^£1 xdvX£vd£V BldlOVTl flOl } 
 
 nAiJATsiros. 
 xaXios. vndgxBi yag <?« [iri yvavai riva. 1340 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ^yy£iXas, as BOtxEv, as TsdvTjxdra. 
 jaAiJArjiros. 
 lis xav iv ''A180V fidvdav'' ivdd8' &v av^g. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ^atgovdiv oSv tovxoksiv ; jj rives Xdyot ; 
 
 nAiJArsir02. 
 riXovfjiivav, siTtoifi' dv as 8i vvv £X£i, 
 xaXas id xsivav Ttdvxa, xat xd [xilf xaXas. 1345 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ris odxds sax ', d8£X(p£ ; ngos d'lav tpgdaov. 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ovxl It/VM/s ; 
 
 HjIEKTPA. 
 
 ovSi ■y'' is &v[i6v (piga. 
 
 0PE2TH2 . ■ 
 
 ovx oToO' oxa fi* £8axas its ;^«|>«s itoxs j 
 
62 2O0OKAEOlt2 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 noitp ; Tt qxovsts ; 
 
 O PE2TH2. 
 
 ov TO 0axic3v TtiSov 
 VTtsisniixtpdffv, ffjji Ttgofifidia, %sgiOiv. 1350 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ^ xaivos odtos, ov nox' ex noXXav i/S 
 (xovov Tigaasvgdv itioxov iv nargds (pOva; 
 
 0PE2THS. 
 
 oS' iari. fill fi' sXsj'^s TtXsioaiv Xoyois. 
 
 BAEKTPA. 
 
 ra cpiXraxo'f cpSs, S fiovo? aaTtjg Softav 
 
 " Aya(ie[ivovos, nas ■^XOes ; t} (Sv xaivos sT, 135E 
 
 OS TovSs xajj,' stitodas ax jtoXXmv vtdvcav ; 
 
 S (piXxaTai (xiv ^elgas, ijSiotov S' a^tov 
 
 TtoSav V7fi^gaxrj[/,a, Ttas ovxca ndXai 
 
 ^vvav fi' sXjfdae ovS' aqiaivae ; aXXd fia 
 
 XoyoL? dn&XXvs, agy' a%c3v ^Siax' ifioL 1360 
 
 ^aig^,co Ttdxag • naxaga ydg aidogdv 8oxa' 
 
 Xaig' ' Lodi S' as fidXiaxd a' avdgaittov aya 
 
 VX^VQ'"' xdtpiXjfa' iv rfnaga (iia. 
 
 nAidArjiro2. 
 agxaiv Soxai fioi. tovs ydg iv (isaa Xoyovs, 
 TtoXXai xvxXovdi vvxxas -^fiagai x'' laou, 136* 
 
 at xavxd aoi Ssi^ovdiv, 'HXaxxga, aatp'^. 
 Ccpmv 8'~ivva7ta 'ya xotv nagaax&xoiv, oxi 
 vvv xaigos sgSaiv • vvv KXyxaifivrjarga (lovii • 
 vvv ovxts avSgav avSov • at 8'' i(pa^sxov. 
 
HAEKTPA. 63 
 
 tpgovTi^sd' a? rovjois t£ jcai aofptozigois 1370 
 
 a^Xoiai TOVTcov uXeiociv ^a%ovfji£VQi, 
 
 0PE2 7'II2. 
 ovx oiy fia^cQcov ed' ^fiiv ovdiv piv ^oyav, | 
 
 nvXdSrf, To'3' s'lTf Tovgyov, dkk' oclov rd%os 
 j^a§Biv sdco, TtargSa ngoaixvaavd' edr^ 
 ■d-sav, oaoiTtsg ngojtvXa vaiovaiv rdSe. 1375 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 dva^ "AtcoXXov, I'Aeras ainolv xkvs, 
 
 EflOV T£ TtgOS TOVTO101V, {j 6£ TloXXd Stj, 
 
 aq)' av sj^oifii, Xinagu ngovaxriv ^sgi. 
 
 vvv S\ €0 AvxsL ' " AnoXXov, i§ oiav £j((o, 
 
 atxa, TtgonitvS), kicsaofiai, ysvov itgoipgcav 1380 
 
 ■^fjiLV dgcayos tcovSs tav ^ovXsvfidrcav, 
 
 xal Ssi^pv dvdgaitoioi rditixifiia 
 
 rrjs 8v0<ss6aias oTa ScogovvTac &£oi. 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 
 i'Bed' OTtri TtgovifisTai 
 
 TO SvaigidTov atjtta q)vci(5v "Agi^s. 1385 
 
 psSdaiv dgxL Scofidxcav vitoGTsyoi 
 
 fistddgofioi xaxav navovgyrifidxcov 
 
 dcpvxxoi xvvss, 
 
 Sax' ov fiaxgdv IV kfinivEi 
 
 xovfiov qigsvav ovsigov aicogovfisvov. 1390 
 
 Ttagdysxai ydg ivsgav 
 
 So'kionov? dgroyos el'da axi/as, 
 
 dgxaioTzkovxa naxgo? sis iSaXia, 
 
 1384 — 1390. = 1391 — 1397. 
 
64 2 O0OKAEOT2 
 
 vsaxdvijTOv aifia ^sigoiv f^ov 
 
 o Maias Ss nats 1395 
 
 'EgfJLri? atp'' ay si, SoXov axoxca 
 
 xgvipas, Ttgoe avro xigfia, xovx sz' dfifiivsi, 
 
 HAEK TPA. 
 
 CO cpikxaTai yvvatxss, avdgse avxixa 
 rsXovai xovgyov • aXXd aiya ngoOfiavs, 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 nas S^ ; rt vvv itgdaoovoiv ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 Tf fliv is ToifpOV 1400 
 
 Xe6tiTa xodfiit, rco d' iq)icnaTov nikas. 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 (Jv 5' ixTOs y^aig Ttgos xi ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ^govgijaova', oit&i 
 Aiyiados tfiids (iri Xddtf [loXcov k'aca. 
 
 KATTAIMNH2TBA. 
 
 aiai. la axiyai 
 
 tpiXav sgrffioi, xav S' dnoXXyvxav nXia. 1405 
 
 BAEKTPA. 
 
 (io^ xis BvSov. ovx dxovsx', a cpiXai ; 
 
 X0P0 2. 
 ^xoutf' dvjjxovtsxa Svdxavos, Saxs (pgZ^ai. 
 
 KATTAIMNH2TPA. 
 
 oifioL xdkaiv' • AiyiaOs, nov nox'' av xvgsie ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 tSov fidX' aS &gosi xie. 
 
 1398—1421. = 1422 — 1441. 
 
HAEKT^PA. 65 
 
 KATTAIMNIISTPA. 
 
 CO rixvov xixvov, i4io 
 oixTSigs Ttjv Texovdav. 
 
 IIAliKTPJ. 
 
 «AA' ovx ix tyidiv 
 axTSigsd' oiros, ovS^ b ysvvqaas naTrjg. 
 
 xo p z. 
 to noXis, a ysvsd xtiXaiva, vvv as 
 [jioiga xadafjLsgia cpdivsi cpdivai. 
 
 KylTTAIMNIISTP A. 
 
 Sfioi TtEnXriyfiai. 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 Ttatdov, BL ddivsis, dinX'^v. I4i5 
 
 KATTAIMNIIZTPA. 
 
 &(ioi fj.dk' a-^dis. 
 
 HAliKTPA. 
 
 si ydg Alyiadw y ' h^ov. 
 
 XOPO s. 
 Tskova' dgat' ^adiv oi yds vital xsifisvoi. 
 TtokvggvTov ydg atfj,' vns^aigovdi tSv 1420 
 
 xravovTcov ot ndXai d'avovTSS. 
 xal [iriv ndgsKSLv aids • <potvia Si )^slg 
 tird^si &vr(Xii? "Agsos, ov S ' f^cj Xiysiv — 
 
 . IIAEKTPA. 
 
 'Ogeara, nm xvgst * / 
 
 0PE2TII2 . 
 
 . xdv So/joidi [liv 
 xaAa?, 'AnoXXav si xaXas idicutidsv. 1423 
 
 6*- 
 
66 2O0OKAEOT21 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 xiOvqxsv ri xdXaiva ; 
 
 OPESTHS. 
 
 [jitjxix' ixq)o6ov 
 [irftgaov as as A^/*' axifidaEi noxk. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 * * * * 
 
 ********* 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 ********* 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 Ttavaadds, Xsiiodca ydg Aiyiadov ax ngoS-qXov. 
 
 OPE 2TI12. 
 ********* 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 a TtaiSse, ovx aipoggov ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 sitiogdjE nov 1430 
 
 xov av8§^ ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 i(p' ■^fj.iv oSxos ix Ttgoaaxiov 
 Xcagei j'Sj'Tfdas * * * * 
 
 X0P02. 
 
 pdxE xax' dvxiOvgav ooov xd^usxa, 
 
 vvv, xd Ttglv sv &ifi£voi, xdS' as ndKiv — 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 &dgcif xsXovfjiEv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 j) vosis STtsiyi vvv. 1435 
 
HAEKTPA. 67 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 Rat 8-q piStfxa. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 rdvddS' av fxiXott^ ifnoi. 
 
 XO P0 2. 
 5i' rards oLv navgd ;/' ras rjitias ivvirtsiv 
 ngos dvSga, rovSs <sv[iq}igoi, Xadgaiov os 1440 
 
 ogovetf ngos Sixas dyava. 
 
 Airiseos. 
 ris oidiv vfiav nov noO^ oi (Poxjjis ^ivoi, 
 ovs cpas' 'OgiiSryfv ri(ilv dyyslXai ^iov 
 kskocitdd^ ImtLxoZdLv iv vavayiois j 
 OS TOt, oi xgivm, vat 08, T-qv iv Tf Ttdgos 1445 
 
 ^gdva d-gaOEiav • as {idXiotd ooi fiiXsiv 
 otfiat, fidXiora d' dv xarsiSviav tpgdoai. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 s^oida. Ttas ydg ov)(i ; ovfitpogds ydg dv 
 s^cadsv sirjv xav ifjicov xjjs qnXxdrrfS. 
 
 Ainse 02. 
 nov 8ijx' dv siev ol ^svoi ; diSaoxi fis. 1450 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 evSov. qiikrfs ydg ngo^ivov xaTqvvaav. 
 
 Airi2Q02. 
 
 ^ xat d-avovx ' ^yyeiXav ras eTr^Tw'^cjs ; 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 ovx, dkXd xdniSsi^av, ov "koya fiovov. 
 
 Airi20 02. 
 
 jtdgsox' ag^ ■^[iiv Soxs xd/ifav^ fiadstv. 
 
 HAS KTPA. 
 
 ndgsoxi STJxa xat (idV dtq^os &£a. M55 
 
68 ZO^OKAEOrS 
 
 AJTIse 0.2. 
 
 H Ttokkd xaigsiv ^' sinas ovx aiadoxcas 
 
 HylEKTPA. 
 
 ^aigois otv, St aoi ^agrd Tvy%dv£i xdSs. 
 
 Airi2eo2. 
 (SLydv avmya xdvaSsixvvvai TtiiXas 
 Ttdaiv MvxTfvaioiaiv 'uigysioLS d' ogdv, 
 as si' ns avjSv sXitioLv xsvais ndgos 1460 
 
 i^gsr' dvSgos tovSs, vvv bgav vsxgov 
 dTOfiia Si%fjTai Tafxd, ^tfSi ngoe ^iav, 
 ifiov xoXaaTOV T^goazv/dv, (pvajf (pgsvas. 
 
 IIAEKTPA. 
 
 xal 8^ xsXsiTai rdn' iftov. xa ydg XQPvcp 
 
 vovv sff%ov, Saxs av(i(pigsLv xoZ? xgsiddociy. 1465 
 
 Airi20O2. 
 
 CO Zsv, SsSogxa <pd(jfi\ dvsv ipdovov fisv, sd 
 TtSTtxaxos • SL d' sjisdxi Nif-isais, ov Xsya. 
 j^aXdxs ndv xdXv^^'' dit" ixpdaXfimv, otzcos 
 x6 avyysvss xoi xdu' iuov d'grjvcov xvj^if. 
 
 PEST 112. 
 
 avxos av ^daxaV- ovx s^iov x6S\ dXXd Gov, 1470 
 TO xavd' bgav xs xal ngoariyogsiv wiXcas. 
 
 Airi20 2. 
 
 aAA' sv TtagaivsLS, xa7ti7tsi(jO[xaf ov di, 
 
 SI Ttov xar' oTxov fioi KXvxaifivT^ffxga, xdkti. 
 
 0PE2TII2. 
 
 avxTi TCsXas dov. fiTfxsr'' dXXoas axojcei. 
 
 AJrT20O2. 
 
 OLfioi, ri Xs^aaa ; 
 
HAEKTPA. 69 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 Tiva cpoSsi ; tiv' dyvosts ; 1475 
 Airi2eo2. 
 tiifav ttot' dvSgav iv (isaois dgxvtixdxais 
 
 OPE2TH2. 
 
 ov ydg aiaddvEi ndkai 
 Zavxas &avovaiv ovvsx' dvxavSas i&a ; 
 
 Ainseos. 
 o'ifioL, ^v^xa X0V710S. ov ydg sad'' ojtas 
 oS' ovx 'Ogiaxt^e sad' 6 ngoacpavav e^i. 1480 
 
 OPS2TII2. 
 
 xal fidvxis av agiaxos iacpdXXov ndXat ; 
 
 Airi2eo2. 
 oXcoXa 8rj SsiXaios. dXXd (iol ndgsi 
 xdv (Sfiixgov siTtstv. 
 
 HAEKTPA. 
 
 [iri Ttiga Xiysiv sa 
 ngos &Bav, dSsXq)i, firfSi firfxvvsiv Koyovs. 
 xi ydg ^goxav av civv xaxois fiSfuyfiLkviav 1485 
 
 &vrjaix£iv 6 fikXXav xov %g6vov ^igSos (pegoi ; 
 ctAA' as xd^taxa xxsivs, xal xxavdv ngodss 
 xacpsvdiv, &v x6v8' stxos ioxi xvyxdveiv, 
 dnonxov rj(iav. cos ifioi x68 ' dv xaxSv 
 fiovov ysvoixo x&v ndXai Xvryjgtov. 1490 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 ^cagois dv sidcn Ovv xd^si. Xoytav ydg ov 
 vvv idxiv dydv, dXXd 0TJs ^vxri? nigi. 
 
70 SOOOKAEOrS HAEKTPA. 
 
 Airi20 02. 
 
 Tt 5' Is Sofiovs dyeis [is; nios, ro5' at ycaXov 
 Tovgyov, axoxov Sii, xov ngoxBigos ii xravsiv ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 fi'^ rdadE * x^gsi- S ' svOansg xaxExxavss 1495 
 
 naxiga xov Ufiov, oe otv iv xavxa &dvjfe. 
 
 Ainseos. 
 if nda* dvdyxrj xrjvSs xriv dxsyrjv tSsiv 
 xd t' ovxa xat [ikXXovxa UeXothSov xaxd; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 xd yovv tf ' ■ iyca <soi fidvxis siiii xavS ' dxgos. 
 
 Airise 02. 
 aAA' ov naxgaav xr^v xi^^vrfv ixofinaaas. i5oa 
 
 O PE2TH2. 
 
 ndXk' dvxicpcovsis, ^ 5' oSds ^gaSvvsxau 
 dkk' £g(p'. 
 
 Airi20 02. 
 
 vcptiyov. 
 
 OPE2TH2. 
 
 tioi ^aSiaxsov Ttdgqs. 
 
 Airi20O2. 
 
 ^ firf (pvya as ; 
 
 0PE2TH2. 
 
 [Iff [isv ovv xad' ^Soviijv 
 &avifs ■ (pvXd^ai. Ssi [is xovxo aoi nixgov. 
 XQ^v ^' svdvs slyai xjjvSs xois ndaiv §ixr[Vf 1505 
 ocijis Tzsga ngdaasiv ye xav voficov if'ii.ff,, 
 xxsivsLV. xo ydg navovgyov ovx civ '^v itokv. 
 
 XO P0 2. 
 
 S 07tig[i' 'Axgsas, &)s noXkd na&ov 
 
 8i ' iksvOsgias (ioXls ii^kdss, 
 
 xf) vvv og[jLj) xsksadiv. , , i5io 
 
 •ai 
 
NOTES. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Divisions of the Drama. — 1. Prologue, 1 - 85. Ores- 
 tes, his friend, and his guardian-servant concert the plot, 
 which is thus made known to the spectators. They withdraw 
 to go to Agamemnon's tomb. 2. First Epeisodium, 86-471. 
 This consists of an anapasstic dirge by Electra, composed 
 strophically, 86 - 120 ; of a Kommos in lieu of the usual 
 choral Parodus, in which the Chorus sympathizes with 
 Electra, and seeks to moderate her grief, 121-250; and 
 of a dialogue in trimeters, 251 -471. At v. 328 Chryso- 
 themis, Electra's sister, comes out from the palace with 
 mortuary offerings in her hand, which she has been ordered 
 to carry to the slain king's tomb. She informs Jier sister 
 of a nocturnal vision which had alarmed their mother. 
 3. First Stasimum, 472-515. The Chorus forebodes a 
 guileful attack of divine justice on the queen and her mate, 
 and deplores the hereditary woes of the Pelopidse. 4. Sec- 
 ond Epeisodium, 516-1057. The queen proceeds from 
 the palace to ask of Apollo, whose statue stood by the por- 
 tal, deliverance from all threatened evil, which her night 
 vision might portend. She falls into a debate with Elec- 
 tra, in which she justifies Agamemnon's murder, as a re- 
 quital for the sacrifice of Iphigenia. She prays to Apollo, 
 and the prayer seems to be at once answered, for a pre- 
 7 
 
74 ELECTRA. 
 
 tended messenger from a friend gives a thrilling ac- 
 count of Orestes's death. He is the old guardian-servant, 
 and enters the palace with the queen to partake of her hos- 
 pitalities, 516-822. After a few words of bitterness and 
 despair from !EIectra comes a Kommos, in which the 
 Chorus, though crying to heaven for vengeance, urges 
 Electra to moderation, and seeks in vain to console her, 
 804-870. Her sister then appears, on her return from 
 the tomb, with the news that offerings, and among them a 
 lock of hair, had been placed on the mound, which could 
 have come from no one but Orestes. Electra soon unde- 
 ceives her, and avows her purpose, now that their brother 
 IS no more, to slay ^gisthus with her own hand. Her 
 sister's attempt to dissuade her provokes her to use words 
 of bitterness and scorn. Chrysothemis retires into the pal- 
 ace. 871-1057. 5. Second Stasimum, 1058-1097. The 
 Chorus regrets the want of readiness on the part of Chry- 
 sothemis to espouse her father's cause, is confident that 
 vengeance must come, and applauds Electra's nobleness of 
 mind. 6. Third Epeisodium, 1098- 1383. A messenger 
 appears, pretending to be sent by a family relative with the 
 ashes of Orestes. Electra takes the urn into her hands, 
 and breathes out her soul over her brother's remains. 
 When the messenger finds that all is safe, he discloses 
 himself to be Orestes, and proves it by a signet. 1098- 
 1231. The feelings of the two burst forth, first m a lyric 
 passage, ano a-Krjv^c, 1232 - 1287 ; and Orestes seems, in his 
 joy, to be forgetting his duty as an avenger of blood, when 
 the guardian-servant (1326) comes forth and urges to in- 
 stant action. Electra, after recognizing the old man, im- 
 plores Apollo to aid the cause of righteousness. 1288- 
 1383. 7. Third Stasimum, 1384 - 1397. Short, as if divine 
 justice could not wait. The presentiment of v. 472 is on the 
 eve of fulfilment ; fraud and force will soon deal the blow. 
 8. Exodus, 1398- 1510. The death-cries of Clytemnestra 
 
NOTES. 75 
 
 are heard from within. This terrible scene first takes the 
 form of a Kommos, during which Orestes comes forth drip- 
 ping with gore. iEgisthus is seen at a distance. 1398- 
 1441. Orestes returns into the palace. Electra, recovering 
 her composure, "palters" with jEgisthus "in a double 
 sense." He enters, sees the queen's corpse, and finds him- 
 self in the avenger's grasp, who forces him away to the spot 
 where he killed Agamemnon that he may die there. The 
 Chorus retires, satisfied that the family of Atreus has by 
 this struggle freed itself from its woes. 1442- 1510. 
 
 In three scenes three actors appear on the scene together. 
 The chief actor sustained the part of Electra ; the second, 
 those of Clytemnestra and Orestes ; and the third, those of 
 the guardian-servant, Chrysothemis, and jEgisthus. In 
 order to do this, the second actor must enter the house 
 from behind, after seeming to go to the tomb of Agamem- 
 non, and the third must go into the house as the guardian- 
 servant at V. 803, and, passing round behind, appear as 
 Chrysothemis returning from the tomb at v. 871. The 
 third actor, again, must probably have entered the house 
 with Orestes, after v. 1370, and returns in the character of 
 iEgisthus at v. 1429. 
 
 1 - 10. The old servant, standing at the gate of Mycenae, 
 points out to Orestes and Pylades the principal objects that 
 were in sight. He begins with the territory which lay 
 around them, for "hpyos here, as often in Homer and else- 
 where, denotes the region. Indeed, this was its earlier sig- 
 nification, for the word meant a plain in the language of 
 the Pelasgi. The region Argos is called the a'Xo-os, or sa- 
 cred plot, of lo, something as the city Thebes, in Antig. 
 845, is called the SK<tos of the local goddess Theba ; as 
 Elis is styled by Pindar (Isthm. 2. 40) the SKaos of Olym- 
 pian Jupiter, and Africa the Tcfievos (Pyth. 4. 98) of Ju- 
 
76 ELECTRA. 
 
 piter; and as Egypt is named by jEschylus (Suppl. 561) 
 A'lov ndfi^oTov aXaos. The city Argus, which was about fifty 
 stades distant from Mycense, is next denoted by its agora, 
 called AvKdos, as being under the protection of Apollo 
 Lycius, whose temple, one of the most important in Greece, 
 stood on one side of it. (See Siebelis on Pausan. 2. 19 ; 
 Leake's Morea, Vol. II. p. 403.) Nearer to their position 
 was the famous temple of Juno, protectress of Argos, dis- 
 tant five-and-forty stades (Herodot. 1. 31) or forty (Strabo, 
 p. 368) from this city, and fifteen (Pausan. 2. 17) or ten 
 (Strabo, u. s.) from Mycenae, and lying on the left hand to 
 one who looked towards Argos. Pausanias says, Mukiji/Sk 
 ev dptarepa Ttivre dnix^'' '=<^' S''"' (rrddia to 'Hpalov. Finally, 
 the place to which they were come was MycensB, rich in 
 gold (Iliad vii. 180) ; and they stood before the house of 
 its kings, or its acropolis. For the description of this 
 acropolis, and of its recessed gateway, as well as of the 
 strange subterraneous chamber called the treasury of Atre- 
 us, the reader is referred to Clarke's Travels, Amer. ed., 
 Vol. IV. p. 177 ; Dodwell's Greece, Vol, II. p. 228 ; Leake's 
 Morea, Vol. II. pp. 369-382 ; Curtius's Peloponnesus, Vol. II. 
 pp. 404-415. Though it is not certain that Sophocles had 
 inspected this scene, nor probable that it was represented 
 before the eyes of the theatre as it appeared, yet it is cer- 
 tain that this description agrees well with what the existing 
 remains show to have been the reality. The opinion of 
 those critics, including also the writers of the Argument, 
 and the Scholiast, who have thought that the poet laid his 
 scene in Argos, and confounded Argos and Mycenae, seems 
 to be refuted by oi 8' Udvo/ifv, v. 8, which shows that the 
 place where they had arrived was different from those pre- 
 viously pointed out, and was now mentioned for the first 
 time. There is, however, no doubt that the two cities were 
 often confounded by the tragic poets, as Strabo remarks. 
 Lib. 8, p. 377. jEschylus never mentions Mycense. But 
 
NOTES. 77 
 
 Sophocles follows Homer more closely. Tpoia, the ager 
 
 Trojanus, or Troad ; as in Eurip. Androm. 968 ; 17 jadxi; 17 
 ev Koplvdif, in the Corinthian territory, Demosth. contra 
 
 Leptinem, p. 472 Reiske. SX<ros is in apposition with 
 
 *Apyos, and r<5Se is the subject of eWi undef stood. outj/. 
 
 The temple, being nearer to the travellers, is pointed out by 
 
 o8e, the more remote dyopa by avTr). iKavojiev here takes 
 
 the ordinary perfect sense of iJKa, I am come, as in v. 1102, 
 
 and Antig. 224. ^da-Ketv is used for an imperative, as 
 
 in Philoctet. 1411, (Ed. R. 462 ; K. § 306, R. 11 ; Cr. § 625 ; 
 but perhaps f^e<m of v. 2 was still in the poet's mind. It 
 
 denotes here to declare, to say with satisfaction. Sajm 
 
 is in the accusative according to Herm. 
 
 18. a-atpij expresses the effect of kivcT, = &a-Tc a-acprj elvai. 
 See Antig. 791, and comp. v. 27. , 
 
 19. eiippovri aa-rpcov, night of Stars, i. e. starry night. So 
 Euripides says (Orest. 1685),Xafi7r/DSi' aarptov noKov i^avia-as, 
 making my way to the star-bright heavens. Comp. iiTepvyi 
 Xwvos, Antig. 1 14. ev(})p6vri is a word for vii, like evp.eiiiScs 
 for epivves, derived from eUtfypav, and used in order to avoid 
 the ill omen which the utterance of these words of gloomy 
 import on certain occasions would afford. 
 
 21. Pylades is a mute character: otherwise, in the clos- 
 ing part of the play there would be four speakers on the 
 stage, which was not allowed. The old attendant invites 
 both to deliberate, but Orestes says all that is necessary ; 
 the plan having been completely arranged between them. 
 
 ifjUv. As the text stands, this is for eV/ieV, and such a 
 
 form Callimachus uses in a fragment. But if Sophocles 
 had made use of it, we should have known of the fact from 
 the grammarians. Probably ivraid' supplies the place of 
 two lost syllables. KaBiirrapev has been conjectured, which 
 Wunder adopts. 
 
 22. For the government of oxmc, comp. v. 1338, 1368, 
 
 .and K. § 306, c. 
 
 7* 
 
78 ELECTKA. 
 
 24. The construction of ytymr with a-rifieia (paiveis is the 
 same as "with 85X01? or (painfis alone. K. § 310, b ; Cr. 
 §633. 
 
 26. airoKea-ev. The aorist, as is frequent in comparisons, 
 denotes that which is observed to happen generally and 
 without reference to time, whenever the supposed case can 
 occur. In the next clause, 6p66v is not an epithet of ovs, but 
 denotes the effect of tatijo-iv. Comp. Herodot. 4. 129, 6p6a 
 
 itrravTes ra Stra. 
 
 27. " Quemadmodum, post ore, eircl, ias, ssepe in apodosi 
 ponitur fit, ita etiam in comparationibus. Proprie in his 
 formulis abrumpi oratio post protasin existimanda est, et 
 deinde aKo modo continuari." Herm. 
 
 34. apolfuiv may, as Herm. observes, be either in the 
 future or the second aorist optative. In oratio recta, the 
 construction would be, I come. — as fioBa anas apafim, or 
 ojrojs a,povp,ai, ^poprjv, second aorist, coexists with ijpdjiijv 
 first aorist. 
 
 35. xp!i is from x/'">») I gii'B om oracle, being contracted 
 like Qj. So iiexPVi CEd. Col. 87, like eCr), from iKxpam. 
 
 36. avTov, in person, and not by the agency of another. 
 
 37. Divine justice appointed Orestes, as next of kin to 
 the slain, not only to requite blood with blood, but also 
 guile with guile. Thus not only exact retribution was ob- 
 tained from the guileful murderers, but the measure also 
 was pursued, of suddenly surprising them in the midst of 
 their guilty enjoyment ; — a measure which the Greeks, 
 like the rest of mankind, naturally felt to be worthy of di- 
 vine justice, and saw pursued in the system of the world. 
 
 Xftpos is to be talcen with <T(payas, and shows more 
 
 fully that the murder must be the work of Jiis own hand. 
 
 K\e\jrai, clam facere. So KKenrova-i p.v6ovs, Ajax 189, 
 
 utter with guile ; fia^as x^P^" SoXoio-t KKiirretv, Eurip. Bellero- 
 phon, frag., wage or win by stealth. 
 
 40. irav TO hpapxvov, all that is doing or going on. The 
 
NOTES. 79 
 
 passive participle here denotes exact present time, as in 
 V. 1333. 
 
 42, 43. oi3 fi^ ynSxn =z ov yvixrovrai. See the note on 
 V. 1052. /iij is not to be supplied in the next clause after 
 
 ouSe. ijuBia-fikvov. This participle is probably used to 
 
 denote the gray hair of the aged servant. Comp. XevKavBk 
 Kapa, CEd. E. 742. For by reason of thine old age and 
 the length of time, they will not know thee, nor will they 
 even suspect thee, since thy head is thus silvered over with 
 age. But Bothe, and after him Wunder, make rivBuriihov 
 meajo. Jlorihus ornatum, i. e. crowned as the bearer of good 
 news. The latter observes that two reasons are given why 
 the old. servant should not be recognized. 1. The change 
 brought upon himjby old ag^, and the length of time since 
 he had been seen, would prevent his being known. 2. The 
 joyful message and crown of flowers would preclude even 
 suspicion. 
 
 45. avbpos iavoTeas, viro quopiam nomine Phanoteo. 
 . Herm. dvSpos is added, to make it seem that the old man 
 
 does not know much of Phanoteus, or of his relations with 
 ^gisthus. Phanoteus was the friend of jEgisthus accord- 
 ing to V. 671, and would naturally be the first to send such 
 pleasant tidings. He is not to be confounded with Stro- 
 phius (v. l-lll), whom Euripides makes the father of 
 Pylades, and allied in marriage to the house of Atreus 
 (Iph. in Taur. 917-919), and who, as next of kin, and 
 living near the Pythian course (Find. Pyth. 11. 54), had 
 the care of the corpse of Orestes. 
 
 46. Tvyxavei. For the omission of ov, comp.-Antig. 487, 
 and v. 313 infra, aypo'un rvyxavei, where we can use a 
 similar ellipsis in English.- 
 
 47. Trpoa-Tidcis, i. e. IT. avTov, sc. t6v opKov. This con- 
 struction is adopted, instead of either ayyeXXe SpKa or Sy 
 yeXXe irpoaTiBeis opKov, and has the effect of causing the 
 servant's mind to dwell the longer upon the importance of 
 making use of the oath. 
 
80 ELECTEA. 
 
 48. dvayxmas Tvxr)s. This phrase in Ajax 485 is used of 
 the unavoidable or constrained condition of slavery. Here 
 it denotes an unavoidable disaster, one that came upon him 
 with irresistible violence, a violent death. 
 
 49. The Schol. calls attention to the anachronism here ; 
 the Pythian games being of later origin. According to the 
 fable, however, they were first instituted when Apollo slew 
 Python. 
 
 51, 52. e^tero, SC. 6 ^ol^os- •^-^-' Kaparofiois xKibais, with 
 
 the ornament of locks of hair cut from the head. The locks 
 are called ^X'Sai as decorations of the head or of the tomb. 
 The Schol. gives both explanations. The first is to be pre- 
 ferred. Comp. Eurip. PhcEniss. 223, Ko/ias ifias irap- 
 
 Seiftou )(\i8av, ^ 
 
 54. Twu/io = ayyos, properly a vessel made by beating 
 
 or hammering. ^piikvoi = Ixovtes rjp/ievov. For this 
 
 idiom see .iEsch. Prometh. 362, 711. — The expression 
 Xa)^Kair\evpov rvTra/ia was suggested by Xc^ijror p^aXxeou ttXeu- 
 pafiara, ^sch. Choeph. 675 (686). 
 
 55, 56. TToi), opinor. Take the particle with 6ta6a. So 
 Monk, and Herm. But pjoi is read instead of nov by an ex- 
 cellent MS. KKcTTTovres = airaTaivTes. Comp. Antig. 
 
 681, 1218. 
 
 61. KOKov, of had omen. So Brunck and Wunder. It 
 was of ill omen to be reported dead. Comp. Eurip. He- 
 lena 1050 : /3oi5\f 1 XcyetrSai p,fl daviiv Xoya daveiv ; Mene- 
 laus replies, kokos /liv opvis ; el 8e KfpSavm Xeyav I eroi/ios e'/ii, 
 pf) Bavav Xdyo) Bavelv. I have put a comma, with Schneide- 
 win, after boim pev, and take pijpa for a nominative. 
 
 63. pdrrji) = yjfevSas. — The poet refers to cases like those 
 of Ulysses and Pythagoras, who reappeared after being 
 reputed dead. How Herm. can s,uppose that the allusion 
 is to men sent into exile and then recalled, I see not ; since 
 reputed death is expressly mentioned. 
 
 65, 66. " Pevperam a Brunckio illatum &s [thus], Ut ts 
 
NOTES. 81 
 
 ssBpe significantius in principio orationis ponitur, et apud 
 
 Latinos qui, sic etiam as [in which way]." Herm. 
 
 uTTo (ftrjfirjs is taken with Xd^\//-«7; SedopKora, and not with the 
 latter word only. SeSopKma =^ CavTa. Comp. ^\emiv so 
 used, Eurip. Alcest. 143. arro, as the result of. 
 
 72. Supply the verb Se^acrde, which is suggested by its 
 opposite awoa-TelXrjTe. Comp. Antig. 29. 
 
 75. The sense is. For it is the Jit time (to do so), which 
 is for men the chief director of every undertaking, i. e. 
 which ought to be chiefly consulted and to guide in all 
 things. Comp. Philoctet. 837, where Kaipos, opportunity, is 
 said to have understanding of all things. 
 
 77. la fioi fioi being a standing formula, Dind., Wunder, 
 and Schneidewin gmit Sva-Trjvos. 
 
 79. iJTro in vTTocTTei/oia-rjs means in an under tone. 
 
 80. The Schol. notices that Orestes is led away by 
 youthful curiosity, while the old man recalls him to what is 
 useful and prudent. 
 
 81. The first person of the subjunctive often stands with- 
 out a conjunction after ^ovXei and BeXeis. Comp. Mt. § 516. 
 
 3 ; K. § 259. 1. KdvaKaicra>p.ev is taken by the Schol. 
 
 and others for koI dvaKoia-afiev, dva denoting over again ; but 
 by Herm. for koI lvaKovcra>p.€v. 
 
 84,85. XovT-pa = xoa?? as in vv. 434, 1139. Kp&ros 
 
 T&v hpapivav, superiority in what we are doing, the attain- 
 ment of our designs. vUt) and Kparos take a genitive, as in 
 the phrase vUrj Sripios, Mach. Agam. 916. — e0' ^luv is in- 
 stead of a simple dative. Comp. Antig. 57, 139. 
 
 87. yTJs l<rop.oipos drip, ather parem cum terra ambitum 
 habens. Herm. y^s is for yg by a rare construction, which 
 Spoins and 'la-OS sometimes' adopt. Comp. Thorn. Mag. voce 
 o/io(os. The expression is perhaps borrowed from Choeph. 
 317, a-Km-co 4>dos l(r6p.oipov. It was ridiculed, according to the 
 Schol., by the comic poet Pherecrates. For dijp, with a 
 short a, if the text is right, see the metrical note. 
 
82 ELECTRA. 
 
 89. avTTipeis, opposite, alternating with, sc. dpfivois. So 
 Suidas. Some join d. aripvav together, directed against, 
 aimed at, the breast. This is favored by the fact that jrX?;7^ 
 is rarely found with the genitive of the thing struck in the 
 tragic poets, but usually with that of the weapon. Yet the 
 emphatic position of dvrfipeis speaks strongly for the sense 
 given by Suidas. — ^&dov implies a present ala-Sdvei. 
 Hence the subjunctive {moKeK^Brj in the subordinate clause. 
 
 91. viroXeKJjBfj. Schol., irapkXdn, Brunck, recessit. This 
 meaning of the passive has no support from usage, as far 
 as I have noticed. Is not the sense rather, whenever 
 night is left behind, i. e. when I pass beyond it into day .' 
 
 92. TO TravinixiSav. For the periphrastic use of the arti- 
 cle and genitive see Mt. § 285 ; Cr. § 478'. ^Si/, even, is 
 
 to be taken with this clause,. and not with ^vvlcratri accord- 
 ing to Hermann. According to Wunder, the clause de- 
 notes time, and is joined with Bprjva. It is better to take it 
 as a limiting clause, thus : and as for my night-vigils 
 even. 
 
 96. e^ivta-ev. Suidas, dirrl toC diriiereivev, who cites from 
 Archilochus, ^eivia Sva-jj-evecri Xvypa ;faptfd/io/or, giving a hit- 
 ter reception to an enemy. So Scxop^ai is used of hostile 
 reception, as by Herodot* vii. 138. Erfurdt observes, that 
 the word was chosen as alluding to the fatal entertainment 
 at Agamemnon's return. 
 
 100. oLKTos Toirav. Comp. Eurip. Alcest. 426, for the 
 
 objective genitive. aXXris, and not oKXov, as pointing at 
 
 her sisters. 
 
 105-109. In the first clause, Xeia-a-a is to be supplied 
 from the next ensuing, where its place is more emphatic. 
 
 p.^ ov nporjxDvelv follows ov X^|o>. I will not cease . . . 
 
 so as not to utter forth. em KaKvra. em denotes object 
 
 or design, according to Hermann, who translates ^^^ «'• "., 
 clamorem ad lucfum provocantem alios; but how could 
 Electra, who despaired (v. 100) of finding sympathy, have 
 
NOTES. 83 
 
 thought of exciting the grief of others ? Better, for the 
 sake of wailing, i. e. that I may indulge my desire to wail. 
 
 111. 'Apa, the vengeance, which is denounced in curses, 
 personified ; Bira. The ancients sometimes spoke of 
 'Apal in the plural, and sometimes confounded them with 
 
 the Erinyes. Comp. jEsch. Furies, 395 (417). In v. 
 
 1 12 'Epivies is pronounced in three syllables by synizesis. 
 
 114. Several words have fallen out here, as the measure 
 shows. It is not clear, therefore, whether roiis moKKewrofU- 
 vovs is to be taken actively or passively. If the latter, it is 
 the same as rois cxovras {euvas afrav) imoKKeTnofievas (comp. 
 v. 54), i. e. those 'who have adultery committed against 
 them. As it was not the part of the Furies to punish adul- 
 tery, Porson and ^others pronounce these words spurious. 
 But comp. V. 492. If the Furies did not pursue the mere 
 crime of adultery, they might yet show the more wrath 
 against an adulterous murderer. 
 
 119, 120. Porson (ap. Monk) thus rendered this passage : 
 For I am no longer able by myself to draw up the weight of 
 
 grief which is in the opposite scale. o-a>K&> = Svva/iai, 
 
 Itrxvo) : a rare word, borrowed perhaps from iEsch. Furies 
 36, and derived through aaxos, strong (Iliad xx. 72), from 
 a-as. ayeiv, to raise, weigh, or balance. Comp. Demosth. 
 
 C. Androt. p. 617 Reiske, p^pvtriSej Terrapes ^ Tpiis, ayovtra 
 
 fKaarr) fivav, three or four golden vessels, each weighing a 
 mina. The sense of weighing flows from that of drawing 
 (i. e. producing motion in a loaded scale), as is shown by 
 cXkciv, which has them both. Comp. Herodot. 1. 51. 
 122-125. "Eecte Triclinius constructionem explicat 
 
 TOKeis olfiayav 'Ayapifivova, quod idem est ac raKcis oip-it- 
 
 foucra "Aya/ue/tybra." Herm. The sense then would be 
 
 what the Schol. gives by the words 8m ri r-qKr; rfi aKopearta 
 
 olnofyfi ; why do you thv^ pine away with never-satisfied lam- 
 entations for Agamemnon ? And t^keis olp.aiya.v would be a 
 bold example of an accusative following a verb of kindred 
 
84 ELECTRA. 
 
 sense, since the notion of pining away may include the 
 grief which causes it, and the expressions of grief, or lam- 
 entation. Comp. the associated words KAa/o), Terr/Ka, KamKa- 
 Kva, in V. 283. But the use of the active r^Kca in the sense 
 of pining away is unsupported. Wunder explains it as 
 meaning here to make to flow, to pour out ; and defends 
 T. olixmyav by the analogy of rfiiceiv haKpva. But all this is 
 without foundation ; no such expression as r^icew Sdxpva can 
 
 be produced. olfiayav . . . ' Ayafieiivova. As verbs of 
 
 weeping and lamenting sometimes take an accusative of the 
 object towards which or whom the feeling is directed (comp. 
 olfta^at oviK^opav, V. 789, ^/iffl|' iSe\(f)6v, Eurip. Electr. 248), 
 and as verbals sometimes adopt their verbs' accusatives, 
 (compi Antig. 786, note,) the government of 'A. by olfuo- 
 yav may be justified. Yet, if TfjKfis involve the idea of 
 grief, it is better to take the personal accusative, as well as 
 the other, immediately with the verb. Comp. Trachin. 50, 
 
 Trai/daKpvT odvpnara | t^v 'H/xikXeiov eloSoj/ yoophrjv, weeping 
 
 over the departure of Hercules with tearful complaints. 
 126. CBS, utinam. 
 
 129. yeveSXa, Doric for y(ve6\jj. 
 
 137. TOP c| 'AtSa Xipvas Trarepa, is for Tov ev 'AtSa \ipva it. 
 by an attraction of the preposition to avaracrtis, which con- 
 tains the idea of bringing out of the lower world. So He- 
 rodotus (7. 37) says, 6 TJXios iKKncav Tfjv ix ToC ovpavov eSprjV 
 d(j>avris rjv, for h ovpava ; and jEschines says that Demos- 
 thenes Tr]V aiTQ (TTpaTOTredov rd^LV eXnrev, 
 
 140, 141. The sense is, Thou art destroying thyself ly 
 passing on in thy weeping from moderation to excessive 
 grief aTevdxov<Ta, owing to the influence of the prepo- 
 sitions dn-d, tiri, is taken in a pregnant sense. Comp. 
 Alcest. 67. 
 
 147. apapev, from ^papov, second aorist, which has a short 
 in the penult, while the penult of the perfect &papa is long. 
 
 149. Atir ^yyeXof. The nightingale is so called as the 
 messenger of spring, sent by Jove. 
 
NOTES. 85 
 
 150. For ere 8', after the vocative, see Prometh. 3. ve/ia 
 = vojuifm. Comp. V. 598. She regards Niobe's state of 
 ceaseless grief as divinely blessed. 
 
 151. QT-e fori;. See Mt. § 483. iv r&^a. Comp. 
 
 Antig. 823. 
 
 152. alai. " Non gemlt Niobse sortem, sed de se ipsa 
 cogitans ita exclamat." Herm. 
 
 155, 156. The sense is, in regard to which (sc. a)(os), 
 you surpass those loitjiin (the house), tvith whom you are 
 
 of common origin, and their sister ly birth. irepura-a 
 
 follows wepl in taking a genitive rmp eySow (oWmK). 
 
 157— 163. oia, of which description, i. e. one of whom. 
 In the next lines Orestes is mentioned by a natural associa- 
 
 'tion of ideas, although not one tSv tvbov. axkmv is taken 
 
 by the extant Scholiast, Suidas, and others, for a partici- 
 ole. oX^tos is put in pointed opposition to it, and may have 
 Deen pronounced after a pause. The next words show why 
 ne is SX^ios, i. e. ov= on avrov. The sense, freely given, 
 is, and Orestes, who passes in grief his secluded youth, — 
 happy one because Mycena's famed land shall one day 
 receive him, — the scion of a noble house, — brought back 
 to this soil by Jove's propitious guidance. Kprnrq. i-efers to 
 the remote and secluded place of safety where he was 
 brought up, away from those who wished his death. Her- 
 mann, taking ix^av as a noun, makes the sense of the 
 clause in which it occurs, happy in his youth (hidden, i. e.) 
 secluded from sorrows. But, as Wunder observes, the rea- 
 son for men-tioning these relatives of Electra is to dissuade 
 her from excessive grief, by showing that they have equal 
 
 reason for it. pijiia here appears to be the verbal of the 
 
 causative sense of ^aiva, which its first aorist has. 
 
 Opk(TTav takes the case of its relative, instead of appearing 
 in the first clause as a nominative. See Antig. 404, and 
 K. § 332. 15 ; Cr. § 525. 
 
 164. aKapMTa = aKapm-as. 
 8 
 
86 ELECTEA. 
 
 165. olxvS, Suidas and Schol. jrcpiepxajjiai. Mcest.cB oher 
 rationis vim habet, says EUendt. May it not better, lika 
 oXxofim, Ajax 1128, =:affoXXu/im. Comp. the parallel pas- 
 sage, vv. 303, 304. 
 
 166. Tov dvrjvvTov oItov kokSv, Tianc perpetuam sortem ma- 
 lorum. Herm. 
 
 169, 170. Ti ayyf}i(ar==Ws ayyeXi'a. Comp. Antig. 1229; 
 Mt. § 442. 3. dnaToiixevov has a passive sense, accord- 
 ing to Herm., so that the sense is, what message goes to 
 him from me without being frustrated of its purpose. But 
 the active sense is better, for the words del noBel contain the 
 substance of the messages of Orestes to his sister, and ovk 
 a^ioi <j)av!jvai explains the cause why aTrarafievov is used. 
 What message comes for me without (deceiving or) disap- 
 pointing me. 
 
 174. Brunck with most MSS. reads t<m niyas h oipava. 
 Heath proposed ?Tt piyas oipava. cTi has since been found 
 in a Florence MS., and h renders the verse unlike the cor- 
 responding one in the strophe. Hermann gives piyas tr h 
 ovpava, 
 
 179. evfiapfjs. Schol. recent., ei/iapeias mpoxos, i. e. kind, 
 affording relief from pain or sorrow, einapeia is used of 
 relief from pain, Philoctet. 704. 
 
 180 - 184. The sense is, For neither is he, who inhabits 
 Crissa^s cattle-feeding shore, — the boy born of Agamemnon, 
 not to return ; nor is the god, who reigns by the Acheron, 
 regardless. aneplTptmos, meaning properly non rediuc, and 
 therefore here implying his being regardless of vengeance, 
 by zeugma, in the second clause, takes the place of a word 
 with that meaning, e. g. aveniarpoipos, or, according to the 
 Schol., is taken in two senses. So Herm. and Ellendt. 
 
 Others give it the sense mindless in both clauses. /3ou- 
 
 vo/iov oKTuv is in apposition with rav KpXa-av, where the arti- 
 cle is used because the place was well known. Comp. r^s 
 Kopivdov, CEd. R. 936, spoken of for the first time, and ros 
 
NOTES. 87 
 
 AS^vas, (Ed. Col. 24. Here the fertile Crissean plain is 
 intended, which lay under Parnassus around the gulf of the 
 same name, and in which (v. 730) the Pythian games were 
 neld. The poet includes in the plain of Crisa or Crissg, the 
 lower plain of Cirrha, which was probably in his days 
 untilled and devoted to Apollo, a grazing-place for his 
 sacred flocks. (Comp. jEschin. c. Ctes. § 107 Bekker.) 
 
 185. o TToXiij . ; . . . jSioTos, vitcB plurima pars, i. e. vis 
 vitalis potissima, Ellendt ; jSiotos being, not time of life, but 
 force or vigor of life. 
 
 186. awXmoTos, with hopes unfulfilled. apxa, Suid. 
 
 Icrxva, VTTOfieivai dvvanai. 
 
 189. ava^la, Suid. d^iav ov< expva-a, a\X' Srijios. «rQt- 
 
 Kos, a settler who is not a native, a stranger. 
 
 192. Keuals rpaitk^ais, the opposite of irKova-la rpdire^a, 
 
 V. 362. a/i^iVra/iai, I place myself near, or by. e^i- 
 
 arafiat, the common reading, arose perhaps from the 
 wrongly written a^iVra/iat, which is found in a Florence 
 MS. Schneidewin inserts into his text a(f>iirTafmi with Koivds 
 Tpwire^as, which it would require. 
 
 193 - 197. The sense seems to be, Sad was the cry ut- 
 tered at his return ; sad was it when in thy father^s bed- 
 chamber the stroke of brazen hatchets was aimed against 
 him. By this, Hermann understands the laments of the 
 people presaging Agamemnon's death, upon his return, and 
 soon afterwards bewailing it. But the cry of the murdered 
 prince is probably intended. Two events are not spoken 
 of, but by a climax (olKrpa 8e) the poet rises to the height 
 of the horror, — to the murder of Agamemnon at the ban- 
 quet. voa-Tois is the time, and the preposition cH.need 
 
 not be supplied. ol is Hermann's emendation for a-oi, 
 
 and seems necessary for the sense. " Hiatum accepit poeta 
 ab epicis," says Herm., who cites a parallel case from 
 
 Trachin. 650, & 8e ol. Agamemnon, according to Ms- 
 
 chylus, was slain at the bath, where his wife, who was 
 
88 ELECTRA. 
 
 attending upon him, entangled him in a tunic sewed to- 
 gether at the top. Comp. Msch. Agam. 1078, 1097, 1518 
 (ed. Blomf.). Euripides says the same, Electr. 155. " I 
 weep for thee, my unhappy father," Xmrpa Travia-raB vdpa- 
 vdfjievov XP°^ 1 'fo'™ ^^ olK.TpoT6.Ta BavaTov. KoiTais Brunck 
 translates by thalamo, the chamber where he was bathing 
 before the feast, but Wunder regards it as denoting the 
 sofa on which, after the custom of his own time, the poet 
 represents Agamemnon as lying during the feast, where, 
 according to Homer, Odyssey xi. 419, he met with his 
 
 death. y^viasv. Comp. Antig. 249. 
 
 198-200. The sense is, It was Fraud that planned, 
 it was Lust that slew; horribly engendering a horriile 
 Form. The poet gives life to means, motive, and result. 
 The horrible form horribly engendered in this union of fraud 
 and lust was the murder of a husband by the plot of adul- 
 terers. (fipda-as takes the sense of the middle. npo- 
 
 (jnireva-avTes is not anterior to the action of the verb, but 
 
 epexegetical, = koI ovtios upoe^vTeva-av. cTr o5j», etc. 
 
 The mind, full of the more than mortal horror of the crime, 
 doubts whether some wrathful avenging deity were not the. 
 
 author. ^pormv. Supply ns, as v. 1323. 6 raCra 
 
 Trpda-a-av, the doer of these deeds. The participle lays 
 aside reference to time. 
 
 201, 202. The sense would be complete without ttXcok, 
 or with ix^pa merely, instead of ^xMara ; but the union of 
 the two constructions gives force to Electra's expression of 
 her feeling. 8^ also adds emphasis to the superlative, as it 
 often does elsewhere. Mt. § 603. 
 
 205, 206. Tovs, referring to fieiTri/a, is attracted or assimi- 
 lated in gender to 6avdTovs, which is in apposition. The 
 
 feast was her father's death. Mvpmv x"potv, the twin 
 
 hands of the guilty pair. For eavdrovs x"poiv, comp. v. 37. 
 
 209. oil, sc. the murderers implied in x^i-poiv. 
 
 213. Take ^pd£ov by itself : ^avctv is for ^mvu. 
 
NOTES. 89 
 
 214. el olav. Schol., e| oimv ayaBmv, and SO Brunck. 
 
 1$ otav alnSiv would better express the idea. ra Trapdvra 
 
 = TO mv, pvv. Schneidewin (who also puts an interroga- 
 tion mark after to-x«r) explains oiav as equivalent to rolav 
 oia, the phrase thus being the same as olav t&v irapovrav. 
 Comp. K. largest Gr. § 788. 5. The sense then is a good 
 one. By such conduct as the present, you run into mis- 
 chief of your own causing. oixeias = Ibias. 
 
 218. So. because by despondency and grief she irritated 
 her mother and ^gisthus, as v. 290 shows. 
 
 219, 220. A passage of difficult construction. One 
 Schol. paraphrases it thus : toIj Kparova-iv oi fit' epi&os 8« 
 els TavTa irpooTreka^eiv ; and Brunck, after another, still more 
 loosely, atqui cum potentiorihus jurgio contendere haud 
 conduciMle est. The construction must be to Se (i. e. raG- 
 
 Ta or Kara ravra 5e) ovK epiara (ou del epl^eiv^ Tols SuvaTo7s, 
 
 5oT6 irKddeiv avTois {8t epiSos). These things are not to he 
 made matters of contention with the powerful so as to ap- 
 proach them, i. e. so as to come to their very face in the 
 contention. 
 
 223. ev yap Seivots seems to be an instance of the causal 
 proposition introduced by ydp, coalescing with the proposi- 
 tion, the cause of which is assigned. Fully expressed, it 
 would be ev yap Seivois dpi. The sense of the passage is, 
 So dreadful are the evils of my stale, that I will make no 
 attempt to ward off the calamities arising from indulging 
 my grief, ravras aras refers to v. 215 seq. 
 
 226. " Scholiastse et Suidas tLvi pro nphs rivos accipiunt : 
 quos sequitur Brunckius : recte. Hoc dicit, a quo enim 
 opportuna afferente utile quid audiam, i. e. quis iia oppor- 
 tuna sentit, et utile quid ad me consolandum proferat." 
 Herm. For the construction of the dative rivi, comp. Mt, 
 § 394. 3, and see v. 442. 
 
 232. avdpidpLos Bpfjvav. Comp. xpo'""^ avapi6p.os rjpepav 
 
 Trachin. 247, and for the genitive, the phrase in v. 36. > 
 8* 
 
90 ELECTEA. 
 
 237. dfiekfiv firi nvi is a rarer construction for ajueXco' 
 TWOS. This verb is even found with an accusative. 
 
 240 - 244. The sense is, Nor, if I am possessed of any 
 good thing, may I enjoy it in quiet, if I restrain the wings 
 of loud lamentations, so that they honor not my parent. 
 
 TrpoaKei^ai XPI^"^^ = XP^^'^°^ TrputrKeiTal fioi, IS attached, OX 
 
 pertains, to me. Comp. 1040. la-xovara z= car ta-xo. 
 
 yoveav for •yoKcms. — : — - eKrifiovs denotes the effect of 
 
 tO";(OTJ(ra, =^ ware eKTifiovs elpai, atrre jirj rt-fiav. Comp. Eurip, 
 Hec. 691. ouSewoTe adajepvTov amevaKTOV d/jiipa fi etnaxriiTei, 
 
 i. e. will stop me from, or keep me without, weeping, etc. 
 
 244-250. For ct vi^ith the fut. indie, and an optative 
 in the apodosis, instead of another fut. indie, see Mt. 
 
 § 524. 2. 1. ya Tc, etc., i. e. held in no more honor 
 
 than other dust, and regarded as of no account. oi dc, 
 
 i. e. Oi 6e KTavovres. avTK^ovofvs ■=. avri rov <f>6v(xv. ^ 
 
 alSas, apparently here the dread of doing wrong, and cuo-c- 
 fieia, piety, reverence both towards parents and the gods. 
 Comp. vv. 308, 968 (where reverence for a deceased broth- 
 er is included), and 1097 ; and- see v. 589, note. 
 
 251. TO a-bv o'lrevSova-a,- tuis rebus studens. The same 
 phrase occurs in Plat. Gorg. 455. C. For crirevhciv with an 
 
 accus., see Mt. § 423. For rovfiAv avTrjs (v. 252), see 
 
 Cr. § 503 ; Ajax 1015, to, tra Kpcm) Bavovros. The phrase 
 means, anxious to shoio my friendship, and the previous 
 clause, anxious to keep you from embittering your enemies 
 iy too loud grief. 
 
 255. The sense is, if on account of my frequent lamen- 
 tations I appear to you to he too much oppressed with sor- 
 row, or afflicted. 
 
 259. The relative refers not to ToSf, the immediate an^ 
 tecedent, but to Trarpma jrrjij.aTa, the chief subject of thought. 
 Trarpaa may denote derived or iaheiited from a father, as 
 we speak of a man's paternal estate. Comp. CEd. Col, 
 
 1(198, els (Keiva djroonciJjrei iraTpma KoL iitjTpaa jrij/ia^' 
 
 'anadts. 
 
NOTES. 91 
 
 261. rh firiTpbs . . . ex^tora = fifjTrip . . . ix^la-rri. The Con- 
 struction with the verb is the same as in Trachin. 1174, 
 ravT ovv eVeiSi? Xafiirpcc avfi^aivei, and probably rises from an 
 ellipsis of ovra, the participle being sometimes joined with 
 this verb, instead of the infinitive. 
 
 265. Wunder remarks that Ti)Taa-6ai = carere, and not 
 privari. This explains why the present and not the aorist 
 is used. So infra, v. 1326. 
 
 269. wapea-riovs, like many adjectives, may be resolved 
 into a preposition and its primitive noun, = n-a/)a if iaria. 
 Comp. Mt. § 446. 8, and v. 419. 
 
 271. TeXevralav, extreme. I have not found this meaning 
 
 of the word elsewhere in the tragic poets. ^nm, as El- 
 
 lendt writes it, or fjniv, with i short, occurs twenty-six times 
 in Soph., but neither jEsch. nor Eurip. has an inclined 
 form of fjfuv or of ij/iSr. 
 
 275 — 277. rX^/iiBj/. Schol. ToKp,ripa, dvaiSfis. But see v. 
 439, note. toU noiovp^vois. Comp. v. 40, note. 
 
 278. evpova-a, having reached. " Gum ad diem ilium 
 
 rursus pervenit." EUendt. tots, olim. Brunck. But 
 
 the word means nothing more than then, i. e. at that well- 
 known time. By that day the poet intends that day of 
 each month. 
 
 280. p.ri\oa-<pay£w, though a neuter, adopts the construc- 
 tion of a-^aTTeiv, its primitive. Or Upa may be aji instance 
 of the apposition which we have in Alcest. 7. 
 
 283. narphs follows e7rmvop,a<Tp.ivrjv. So i7ra>wp.6s nvos, 
 KoXf'idai iiri nvos, are used, the preposition answering in 
 these cases to our after. Comp. Mt. § 375. 3. 
 
 285. avTTiv stands for epavr^v. K. § 302. 8 ; Cr. § 506. 
 
 287. XdyoKTj ycvvaia, Schol. evycvrjs \6youn, Koi ov npa^einv. 
 And so Brunck. ' It is better, with Erfurdt, to explain the 
 phrase ironically, as referring to the low, abusive language 
 of Clytemnestra, a specimen of which follows. 
 
 289. SvaBeov. Suid. da-e^h. So .(Eschylus uses the 
 
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 word in several places. Here in Clytemnestra's mouth it 
 denotes impiety shown by failure in filial duty towards 
 herself. Brunck renders it diis invisum. 
 
 292. 01 Kara Beoi. Comp. w. 110, 184. 
 
 300. I follow Dindorf and others in reading rairra for 
 ravra, according to Blomfield's conjecture. The sense seems 
 to be, And her renowned husband at the same time, being 
 near by, (urges the same things with her, i. e.) urges the 
 same invectives which she had used. For a-vv adverbial, 
 comp. Antig. 85. Below, v. 746, it is perhaps separated 
 from the verb by tmesis. For mnf depending on ravra, see 
 K. § 284. 4 ; Cr. § 4pO. 
 
 301, 302. The sense is, This utter coward, this mere evil, 
 
 that fights his battles with woman's help. f] waa-a j8Xri;3i; 
 
 occurs in the same sense in Philoct. 622, cited by Brunck. 
 The phrase is like many in Greek, and like our expression 
 
 I am all attention. ras i^ax'^^j ^^ battles which he fights. 
 
 Comp. the same words, Thucyd. 4. 92. 
 
 305, 306. iiiWtov'z= ^paSvvav. SietpBopev. The ear- 
 lier Attic writers used this second perfect in a treinsitive 
 sense in preference to Bii^dapKa (which, however, was also 
 in use), while in Homer, in the Ionic and latest Attic 
 
 writers, the intransitive sense was current. rai ova-as 
 
 ... KOI ras aiToicras cXntSas. " What she had and what 
 were about to arise." Schol. " Spem quam in se ipsa et 
 in illo absente repositam habet." Herm. Ellendt ex- 
 plains the phrase as a formula including all possible hopes, 
 although neither oSa-as nor diroCa-as may have any definite 
 meaning. But if this had been the case, could the two 
 kinds of hopes have been so separated from one another as 
 they are here by two articles ? The Schol. seems to have 
 hit the meaning nearest. Hopes near at hand (for oSa-asz^ 
 napova-as, comp. Antig. 1109) are such as she at any time 
 cherished ; hopes at a distance are such as might after a 
 time be awakened in her breast. 
 
NOTES. 93 
 
 308, 309. For the play upon kokAj comp. Alcest. 705. 
 ■ Hermann and other editors have woXXij y for iroWf) Vr. 
 
 313. Bvpalov olxvfiv, to go abroad. So Trachin. 533, 
 
 Bvpaios TJ\6ov. 6vpaiop = e|(B Bvpav. Comp. V. 269. 
 
 For Tvyxdvei, sc. &v, see v. 46. 
 
 317 — 320. Tov Kaa-tyufjTov. For the genitive after verbs of 
 saying, see K. § 273. F ; Cr. § 356 ; and comp. Ajax 1236. 
 ^^ovTos, ^ /ifXXoj/Tos. The participle in such cases usu- 
 ally is accompanied by as, and may be expressed by an 
 infinitive. Comp. Mt. § 569. ri for on. Rare in 
 
 Attic. (j}i\et OKveXv, Schol. e'ladev ava^dWea-dai. 
 
 323. " Non possunt hsec verba exprimere, quod volunt 
 interpretes, alioqui non tarn diu vixissem; sed hoc dicit 
 Electra, non enim diu viverem, nempe si ille non veniret." 
 Herm. 
 
 324. Sopav. It is comparatively rare that the genitive 
 stands without a preposition in answer to the question 
 whence. Comp. Antig. 10. 
 
 325. (pia-iv, hy hirtJi. This word is nearly superfluous, 
 as in V. 1125. For v. 328, comp. vv. 122 - 125. , 
 
 331. The sense is, not idly to indulge your rash anger. 
 Ellendt interprets 6vpm pjvraia more generally perversitati 
 turn. 
 
 332. otSa Kapavrfju on dXyat, for OiBa ort kol avrfi dkyo), 
 
 I know that I myself also grieve. For this form of sen- 
 tences, comp. Antig. 318; Cr. § 614. 
 
 335. vtjjeiph^, sc. ra loria, lowering my sails. The perf. 
 pass, often has a middle sense. — The sense of the next 
 line is, and not to seem to he engaged in something, and yet 
 to bring no harm (upon the murderers, i. e.) not to show 
 that I meditate vengeance which will be ineffectual. 
 
 340. The sentiment is like that in Antig. 63. For 
 
 a plural in lieu of a singular verbal, comp. Antig. 677, 
 irdvTa is probably an accusative. 
 
 342. The Schol. and Hermann take peXeiv as a personal 
 
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 verb here with o-e for its subject = <^poi/r/f«j' ; a rare usage 
 found, according to Hermann, iEsch. Agani. 378, Eurip. 
 
 Here. Fur. 772. For t^s tdctouo-ijs, and the reason 
 
 why Ttjs TeKoia-tis is not used, see Prometh. 849, note (2d 
 ed.). 
 
 343. T-d/io vovBcT^iiara, your admonitions addressed to 
 me. This is the objective use of the possessive pronoun. 
 For the government of kcIvtis, see Cr. § 381. 
 
 346. <l)povoi(ra := ([>. ev, the Opposite of (f>. Kaxas. Choose, 
 says Electra, either to act a foolish part like me, or to be 
 wise (in a prudential point of view) and neglect your fa- 
 ther. 
 
 349. TifLapciaBai nvi, to avenge one''s carise ; nva, to re- 
 venge upon, or punish, one. Tifiapovjiivri, trying to punish. 
 
 351. npbs KaKota-i, besides the calamities now existing. 
 e^ei, this conduct has in it. Comp. Antig. 68. 
 
 856. iKii is here used of the world below, as in Alcest. 
 744. This may be easily gathered from the context, but is 
 
 owing to euphemism. X"!"'^ is here the pleasure arising 
 
 from ^receiving an honor, gratification, and stands instead 
 of Tifi^ repeated. Comp. Antig. 514. 
 
 357. riiiiv. This dative is not without its force. The 
 sense is, Thou who hatestfor us, i. e. our hater, or you who 
 pretend that you hate. 
 
 363. The sense is. Let me have it for my only food, that 
 I do not grieve myself, i. e. that I escape the pain which 
 base submission to them would occasion me, and rather 
 cause them, trouble. A similar expression occurs in Isoc- 
 rates Areopagit. § 82, Bekker : ouray enaideid^o-av oi ^6Sl- 
 rm TTpbs aperfiv aare o-^aj pei/ avrous prj "Kvireiv. See also 
 Eurip. Cyclops, 338. Bmnck changed p.fi into viv (uvtovs). 
 But in that case it is not easy to see why ep.£, and not pe, is 
 used. In the received text, epe stands for e/iaui-jji/, " quia 
 tantumdem est," says Herm., " ac si dixisset to e/ic pkv pi) 
 Xinretj', Xvrrelv Be toiJtoui." And this sense Musgrave had 
 
NOTES. 95 
 
 previously expressed in his note. Comp. 461, where <rol, 
 in an enumeration of several persons, stands for cravr^. 
 The same is true in a contrast, Eurip. Phcsniss. 508 : tovt' 
 oSv TO xfyr)<TT6v . . . oup^i /SouXo^iai | oXX^ napdvai juaWov ^ irai^ew 
 e/iot. In such cases the mind rests simply on the person as 
 joined or contrasted with others, and not on the reflexive 
 act. 
 
 369-378. fuihiv Ttpos opyfjv, say nothing angrily (liter- 
 ally, that has a leaning to, or looks towards anger). Comp. 
 
 vv. 464, 921. ijBai .... nas, pretty much accustomed. 
 
 For the gen. fiiBav, comp. Cr. § 376. rScSe, the ills 1 
 
 now endure. She means, that nothing can be worse. 
 
 380. According to Mt. § 608. 5, firinore is here used, 
 and not oun-ore, because the clause is subjective, i. e. what 
 is said is dependent upon, and exists in the view of Clytem- 
 nestra and jEgisthus. 
 
 384. iv KaXo), in good time. See Antig. 1097, iv beiva, 
 note. 
 
 385. In reply to Elmsley, who would read yap for 8^ 
 after Triclinius, Harm, says, " Optime convenit illud 817, 
 ergo, animo indignant! decretumque contemnenti." — The 
 sense is, What ! have they then even resolved to do these 
 things to me ? ^efiovXewTm has a middle sense. 
 
 388. i. e. Ti's i(TTiv ovTos 6 Xdyoi, or aCn] rj dpa rjv fwripaaa). 
 Comp. Antig. 427. 
 
 396-403. ilxaeriv. See Antig. 1096, note (2d ed.). 
 
 o-u ravra Baaefv, do you act such a cringing part if you 
 
 please. For the accus. ravra, comp. Antig. 550, 743. 
 
 ^ovK Ifiovs rpoTTovs Xeyfis, you do not speak of my character, 
 i. e. what you speak of is not my character ; unless Xey«r 
 can have the sense, you do not speak, i. e. display in what 
 
 you say. Tip.a>povpevoi. For the gender, see Alcest. 
 
 383. F"? • • • '^^'"7' -^ hope I am not yet so far devoid 
 
 of sense. " Electra says pr) na in the feeling of human 
 weakness, as if in the course of time she could not be sure 
 
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 of not acting as her sister Suggested." Schneidewin. 
 Rather she speaks in scorn, which is her present state of 
 mind. 
 
 404. i(TTd\rjv, I set out to go. 6Soi follows the ante- 
 cedent of owrep, emo-e, thitherward. T&pa =z Toi ipa. 
 
 405, 406. Brunck observes that the victims, whose blood 
 was poured out as a libation upon the tomb, were there 
 burnt. He conceives of Chrysothemis as being attended 
 by servants carrying victims. But it is plain from vv. 405, 
 431, that the offerings were in her own hand. She wem 
 alone to offer a libation to -her father, and i'liwvpa must bf. 
 understood, as Triclinius and several modern critics re. 
 mark, of unbloody offerings. Comp. v. 440. Erfurdt 
 remarks that the offering of Orestes, v. 894, was of the 
 
 same kind. rvp^eZa-ai x°°-^ = iirirvfi^lovs x""^ SoVvai. 
 
 Antig. 901., This verb in Ajax 1063, Eurip. Hel. 1245, 
 means, to put in a tomb ; here, to put on a tomb. For its 
 neuter force, to be in a tomb, see Antig. 888. 
 
 408. " Monkius conjicit Sv y' exrov' aurij. At recte hie 
 abest ye. ' Non enim ipsa his verbis respondet Chrysothe- 
 mis, sed quid Electra in mente habeat dicit." Herm. The 
 ■ words in Electra's mouth would have been widiout ye ; or 
 at least Chrysothemis w«uld not have given them the em- 
 phasis contained in that word. 
 
 410. BoKiiv ifwl. as and So-ok, which are usually found 
 with such restricting infinitives (comp. Alcest. 801), are 
 sometimes omitted. 
 
 411. aXKa is used in opposition to something not ex- 
 pressed. If never before, be with us yet at least now. 
 Comp. \ey aX\a toiito, v. 415, if you know but little, yet tell 
 this ; aXXa ro> xp°'"?i ^- 1013, if never before, yet at length. 
 
 419. Trfj^ai ecjiecTTiov = TT^^ai e(j) iaria. Comp. v. 269. 
 This dream resembles that of Astyages in Herodot. 1. 108. 
 For this sceptre comp. Iliad ii. 101. 
 
 425. This seems to have been a custom, the object of 
 
NOTES. 97 
 
 which was to obtain the aid of the Sun or of the Gods, in 
 averting evil portended by dreams. Comp. v. 644. In 
 Eurip. Iph. in Taur. 42, cited by Brunck, Iphigenia says, 
 The novel visions which this night has brought, I will tell 
 to the air, d n hq t6S '4ctt axas. 
 
 428 - 430. vvv, therefore. The connection seems to be, 
 " I beseech you, therefore, do nothing rashly, for our moth- 
 er, in her alarm caused by the vision, will use violence 
 
 against you to prevent you from injuring her." el yap 
 
 . . . irdXw, For if you mil reject me (my advice), at another 
 time you will come after me, in the midst of your trouble. 
 
 433. 'uTTavai KTepta-fiaTa, to place (there) mortuary of- 
 ferings. 
 
 435. By a fine zeugma Kpi-<^ov, in the clause with Kovei, 
 supplies the place of a verb of appropriate signification with 
 
 ^voditTLv, as a-KeSairov or Sds. For the next line comp. 
 
 Antig. 197. vii/z=auTa, as in Prometh. 55, and v. 624 
 
 infra. 
 
 439-441. apxriv, omnino. It is taken with ovk &v . , . 
 
 ejrecrretjie. TKrjpoveiTTaTT]. Passow gives this word, which 
 
 obviously denotes a moral quality here and in v. 275, as m 
 Philoct. 363, the sense of bold, ready to undertake any 
 crime. But the analogy of bvvTrjvos, when denoting crime, 
 as in vv. 121, 806, rather favors the signification miserable 
 
 or wretched (in a moral point of view). kmcrT€<})e xoc^s 
 
 TaSe :=z iwe(rre<pe TovSe xo"'?- Mt. § 411, Obs. 3, remarks 
 that " some verbs take as well the dative of the person and 
 the accusative of the thing, as the accusative of the person 
 and the dative of the thing." The reason for the dative of 
 a person here is, that, besides the general idea of crown- 
 ing, or honoring, the poet had in his mind the special one 
 of pouring upon ; so that the verb adopts the construction 
 required by Imx^iv. 
 
 442. avTTi is not to be taken with <yoi, or with trpocripiXas, 
 which Monk prefers, but with U^aa-Bm, a construction found 
 9 
 
98 ELECTRA. 
 
 m Homer and Pindar. Comp. v. 226, and Mt. there cited. 
 According to Herm. Sexea-6ai nvos or jrapa Tivos means to 
 receive from, Sex^a-dai nvi, to receive for the sake of, or out 
 of favor to. The aorist infinitive here has dt future sense, 
 and this takes place not only after verbs vi^hich in them- 
 selves imply futurity, but also after others. 
 
 445 - 447. iiacrxaXl^eiu denotes to hang under the shoul- 
 ders or arm-pits, thence to cut off the extremities of a slain 
 man, and hang them thus under his shoulders. According 
 to Suidas, the extremities were joined together, and placed 
 round the neck under the shoulders of the slain (thus form- 
 ing a resemblance to the shoulder-band of beasts under the 
 yoke, naa-xaKicrnip), as an expiatory rite, or that the mur- 
 dered person might be povi^erless to take satisfaction. An- 
 other statement in Suidas is, that the murderers wore it 
 upon themselves. Suidas, and others after him, as Blom- 
 field on Choeph. 433, refer to Apol. Ehod. 4. 477, who 
 says that Jason, after killing Absyrtus, " cut off the extrem- 
 ities of the deceased. Thrice he licked off some of the 
 blood, and thrice he spit the abomination out from his 
 teeth, which is the right way for murderers to atone for 
 bloodshed." The learned Schol. on this place, and other 
 writers, tell the same tale. Musgrave thinks that these hor- 
 rid ceremonies were performed, not for the sake of expia- 
 tion, but out of contumely towards an enemy. But the place 
 from ApoUonius shows the contrary. Wilkinson, in his 
 Dalmatia,Vol. II. p. 154, says that " a Morlacco believes that, 
 if he murders any one, he will be haunted by his shade, 
 unless he carries about him a piece of the murdered man's 
 dress. The part preferred for this purpose is taken from 
 the sash ; and having once put it on his breast, beneath his 
 
 clothes, he never goes without it," Kai . . . xapa. KijXiSas 
 
 i^ifia^ev, and wiped off the blood-spots (from the instrument) 
 with his head. c^efM^ev is supposed to change its subject ; 
 but this is not necessary, since Agamemnon may be said 
 
NOTES. 99 
 
 to have performed this deed, by means of his head used 
 for that purpose. So one Schol. and Ellendt seem to un- 
 derstand the place. Wunder regards Kapa as a local da- 
 tive, on his head. This also was a murderer's ceremony, 
 the symbolical purpose of which was, apparently, to trans- 
 • fer the guilt of the murder, to put the blood of the slain 
 man upon his own head. In the Odys. xix. 92, we have 
 epyev o a-fj Ke(f>aKfj dva/ia^eis, a deed which thotl shalt wipe off 
 upon thy head, i. e. shalt bear the guilt of. In Herodot. 1. 
 155, Croesus says, the things which took place before, I 
 
 did, Kal iycD ffifi KecfiaXrj avafia^as cjjepa), and I hear them, 
 
 having wiped them off upon my head. eiA Xovrpoia-i, 
 
 Brunck, after a gloss, makes to mean for an expiation : 
 others, at the hath, near which Agamemnon was slain. 
 
 446. Spa p,ri. Comp. Antig. 632. Both an inferring and 
 an interrogative power have been ascribed to this formula, 
 as Schaefer has explained it in his " Meletem Grit.," p. 66, 
 who there paraphrases the present passage, hcBC cum ita sint 
 numputas. But Herm., on Antig. loc. cit., justly denies 
 that ipa has this power. "'Apa /ii7," says he, "idem pro- 
 pemodum est quod p.ri solum, nisi quod 3pa p-ij paullo for- 
 tius." And Buttmann (index to Plato's Four Dialogues, 
 4th ed., Berlin, 1822) says, under ipa, " Spa pi) sicut pi) 
 solum, interrogat in re incredibili, ita tamen ut ipa addat 
 fere aliquam sollicitudinem, sive veram sive fictam, ne forte 
 ab altero affirmetur." This agrees with the probable origin 
 of the formula from an ellipsis of beivov or a kindred word. 
 Comp. Mt. § 608, Obs. 3. &pa pi) Sokeis then means. Is 
 there danger that you think ? you do not think, do you ? 
 The sense is the same as if the words had been 8ok«j 
 rauTO a <j>epeis Xurijpta chai avrfj tou <j)6iiov, i. e. can free her 
 from the guilt of the murder. For the genitive comp. vv. 
 
 636, 1489, where the same adjective is found. Two 
 
 lines below, o-i Se is used in emphatic contrast, because now 
 she was doing not her own will, but her mother's bidding. 
 
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 449. "Bene monet Brunckius ad Orest. 128, in veteri 
 luctu aliquot tantum cincinnos abscisses esse; in recenti 
 
 omnem csesariem." Herm. aKpas (po^as. Schol. to 
 
 aKpa tZv rpix^iv, 
 
 451. Brunck after the Schol. gives \maprj rpixa, suppliant 
 hair, i. e. hair offered by a suppliant, or which, as a' 
 symbol, made supplication in Electra's stead. Comp. v. 
 1378, XiimpA x^pi- The reading of the MSS., SKmapri, was 
 restored to the text by Hermann ; according to whom it sig- 
 nifies, unsuited to supplication, i. e. uncombed, squalid. 
 In this edition I give Xmaprj. 
 
 452. fS/iii is here used for ^avriv, according to the Schol., 
 Suid., Thom. Mag., and others. In Homer it means, a 
 garment trussed up. iEsch. and Menander (Pollux 7. 51) 
 used the word to denote a garment, probably in Homer's 
 acceptation of it. 
 
 454. This his y,ha!Kov could do, by appearing to the mur- 
 derers in visions, to affright or deceive them, and to the 
 avengers, to supply them with courage. 
 
 455. el inepnpas x^P°^' victrici manu. Herm. 
 
 458. ^ ravvv Sapovfieda. The verb here used is, by a 
 constructio ad sensum, accommodated to Sapois, implied in 
 the hands which brought the gifts. 
 
 459. fieXov. ehac must be understood, iieXov etvai being 
 {on p,i\eiu. Comp. CEd. Col. 653, ak\a Tola-S etrrai pi'Koy, 
 for p,e\^aei. KaKeiva, i. e. that he too, as well as the in- 
 fernal gods, was concerned in sending the visions. 
 
 461. For a-oi, comp. v. 363, note. 
 
 464. TTpos eva-i^nav := eva-efi&s ; properly, in conformity 
 with piety. 
 
 466. The sense is. For justice has (in it) no reason for 
 contending ivith two (opposing the opinion of the Chorus 
 and Electra), but for being forward to act. This phrase, 
 according to ordinary usage, should have epi^eiv and im- 
 a-TTeiSeiv as its subjects ; comp. Antig. 68, where to mpia-a-a 
 
NOTES. 101 
 
 irpaa-a-eiv is the subject of QVK c^ei vovv ovhiva. But the 
 Standard of judging as to what is reasonable is here the 
 subject. 
 
 468. Chrysothemis here finely shows her more timid 
 nature. 
 
 471. mKpav . . . en, I. think that this attempt upon which 
 I am about to venture mil he a calamitous one. For the 
 form of the sentence, see Alcest. 256. 
 
 472. Comp. the first lines of the ode in (Ed. E. 1086, 1087. 
 475. TTpofLavns, SO called, as announcing beforehand, by 
 
 Clytemnestra's vision, the approach of vengeance. 
 
 480, 481. Kkvovirav is instead of KkvovaTi, by a change of 
 construction. According to Brunck, the poet had in his 
 mind vitearl poi 6ap&etv, in which case xXijouo-aw would be 
 used for the dative, according to the common idiom of the 
 tragic poets. Comp. Elmsley on Medea 727, Prometh. 217, 
 and V. 962, infra. Brunck cites miroKTm &' avT efwl (jjiXov 
 
 Keap TovSe Kkvova-av oIktov, from iEsch. Choeph. 410. dSu- 
 
 TTTOcov, " quEe audientes Agamemnonis amicos, quasi suavi 
 quadam aura affiant." Herm. ticppaprav, cheering, Tri- 
 clinius. 
 
 484. xaXKOTrXaKroj, Dor. for -ttXijktoj, hammered or beaten 
 out of brass ; but Erf. and Herm. give it in an active sense, 
 
 eere percutiens. The Chorus says, that neither the dead 
 
 man nor the instrument of death has forgotten the murder. 
 
 489-491. TroXvTTovs and ixdKixcip strongly denote the fear- 
 ful swiftness and grasp of the Fury, who is to be regarded 
 
 as the executioner of Dike's sentence. Comp. v. 476. 
 
 yaXKOTTOur, Schol. arepea Km aKcmuurros Iv ra intevai Kara t&v 
 
 <f)ovea)v, firm and unwearied in pursuing after the mur- 
 derers. 
 
 492-494. Wunder and others give to &piKXripaTa the 
 
 sense of contentio, struggle after, desire for ; and refer ola-iv 
 
 to Clytemnestra and her paramour. The sense then is, 
 
 desire for murderous wedlock attacked those whom it was 
 
 9* 
 
102 ELECTEA. 
 
 not lawful that it should attack. Triclinius refers ounv to 
 Agamemnon, and takes cne^a as meaning hostile attack. 
 This and the sense conjugates amplexus given to d/«X. 
 ydfiav are perhaps to be preferred to the rendering now 
 most in favor. The sense is, For the unhallowed incestu- 
 ous embraces of murderous marriage attacked (and slew) 
 whom it was not lawful. These words assign the reason 
 for the vengeance of the Fury, — adultery ending in mur- 
 der. fiiaKJiovcov is proleptic on either rendering. 
 
 aXeKTpa ajLiiXX^/iara is like ayafios yafios, a marriage that is 
 
 no marriage, i. e. an unfortunate or unlawful one. 
 
 ourw ov Bkfus. Emphatic : it was most unlawful to slay one 
 they had so deeply wronged. 
 
 495 - 498. irpo T&vSf, therefore. The subject of e^a 
 
 is the ensuing clause. The sense is, This, or the thought, 
 possesses me that the sign will never draw nigh to us un- 
 blamed by those who were doing and aiding in the deed, i. e. 
 by the guilty pair ; for, as the Schol. says, when they should 
 suffer for their crimes they would blame the vision, as hav- 
 ing foreboded ill instead of good. With like brevity Shake- 
 speare says (Henry VIIL), " My mind gave me, ye blew the 
 fire that burns you," i. e. gave me this that. But to make 
 this sense, a^eyh must be separated from Jifiiv and joined to 
 bpma-i, which is harsh. The reading is perhaps at fault. 
 -ciT/feyes governs a dative, like the passive of its primi- 
 tive verb. n-fXaw, i. e. TreXao-fic. The sign is thought of 
 
 as at a distance, and as coming nigh, when fulfilled. 
 
 503. Karacrxwfi; lit. will come to land, i. e. come to pass. 
 
 506. alavri is the only example in the classics of a form 
 aiavos, and one excellent MS. here has aiowjr, which some 
 critics prefer, alavbs is, however, found in Hesychius, who 
 has alav6v, xa^fTov, ah6v. See Herm on Ajax 657. 
 
 512. ■Kp6ppi^os, from the root, root and all. With txpi- 
 <i>6ds, here, it denotes utter destruction : thrown utterly out, 
 or thrown out, so as utterly to perish. 
 
NOTES. 103 
 
 513-515. The Scholiast's explanation, a<ji oS 6 MvpnXos 
 enriBavev, ov SUXarev alKia tovs TroXvuTrniOvas oXkovs, brings US 
 to the true reading, oikovs iroKvirajiovaSf favored by Bothe 
 and Schneidewin, which I have introduced into this edition 
 instead of oinov ttoKvitovos. The sense is, When Myrtilus 
 slept in death — never yet since then has woe and shame 
 forsaken these wealthy abodes. There is an allusion in 
 aiKia to the al<Lms of vv. 487, 511, and perhaps in troKvTra- 
 fxovas to irayxpia-av of v. 510, denoting that the ignominy- 
 perpetrated on the wealthy Myrtilus was paid by the igno- 
 miny of the wealthy Pelo^pidse. 
 
 516. avfijiivri, left at large, i. e. being freed from the 
 control of jEgisthus. 
 
 518. For /«) after eVElxf, see K. § 318. 8 ; Cr. § 665. iif, 
 Toi ye, i. e. whatever else he could not prevent, he certainly 
 Jcept you at least from disgracing those you ought to love 
 by being out of doors. 
 
 522. Brunck, Erfurdt, Schaefer, Mt. (§ 551), take Spxa 
 in the sense I begin, with KaBy^piCova-a. Monk and Herm. 
 put a Comma between apxa, I rule, and the participle. 
 The latter construction is to be preferred, as making the 
 inconsistency between what Electra had said, and her want 
 
 of fear and respect for Clytemnestra, more apparent. 
 
 Bpaa-e'ia, sc. (lijt.i, according to Herm., but the adjective may 
 be taken as instead of an adverb, parallel to nipa bUrjs. 
 
 525. Brunck supplies from the foregoing kXvcu wpos a-e- 
 6ev, and considers oiblv . . . ael a parenthesis. The true 
 construction malies narlip the subject of eari by attraction, 
 as well as the proper subject of reBi/riKev. oiSev is for koI 
 ovSek by asyndeton, owing to the earnestness of. the dis- 
 course. 
 
 529. J, sc. AUri, since kovk cyoj pom) is parenthetical. 
 
 533. A simple construction here would be ovk 'laov XuTn/r 
 KapMV (like 'Kxmrjv \v7rijo-ar) ot tarreipev ipoi St ctiktov. But 
 
 the poet, having used e/wi with Icrov, afterward^ completes 
 
104 ELECTEA. 
 
 the sense by adding wcrn-ep f/ tiktovo-' iya. And he does not 
 say oT cTiKTov, because, as Schneidewin remarks, that 
 would restrict her Xvtti; to the act of bearing a child ; while 
 the participle (denoting the mother, comp. v. 342) extends it 
 to her subsequent maternal cares. 
 
 534. Tov, x^P''" """^ >■ " pro quEi re ? cujus gratia ! rov 
 est idem quod avrl tov, ut in Aristoph. Nub. 22, tov SaBcKa 
 fjLvas iraa-ia." Herm. A few authorities have Tivav for tIvos, 
 which, if taken as a participle, gives a good sense, rependens 
 gratiam. For the repetition of the interrogative, comp. 
 Eurip. Androm. 388, W Kaiveis fi ; avri tov; As tIvcov was 
 more likely to arise from tIvos than the contrary, I have 
 preferred to retain the latter in the text. 
 
 537. OCT aSeX^ov briefly denotes instead of his hrother^s 
 killing his own children. 
 
 539. " Some criticize the poet," says the Schol., " for 
 differing from Homer, who makes Hermione the only child 
 of Menelaus and Helen ; but herein he agrees with Hesiod, 
 who adds a son, Nicostratus." 
 
 541. §1, 1. e. iraTpos ov Koi fvijTpos §9. The poet might 
 have used &v, but his mind dwelt on Helen ; this being 
 especially applicable to her. 
 
 543. hala-aa-Bm is epexegetical. Had Hades any desire 
 for my children more than for his, to feed upon them? 
 
 545. McveXeo) 8' evv", i. e. tv^v 8' ev avra iroBos T&v Mere- 
 Xto) rraiSav ; For the accent of Trm'Smi', see K. § 65. 2. 
 
 550. The sense is, But if I seem to you to judge wrong, 
 when you have formed a correct judgment yourself, then set 
 about hlaming others, i. e. me. So the Schol. recent. But 
 Wunder, Ellendt, and some other critics, with the Schol. 
 vet., join a-xova-a with SoKw. The sense then is. If I seem 
 to you to judge wrong when I have judged right, then lay 
 the blame on others, i. e. on Agamemnon. But there seems 
 to be something absurd in this, (ppovelv Kaxas must refer 
 to her thinking herself justified in slaying her husband, and 
 
NOTES. 105 
 
 in not regretting the deed. How then, if Electra thought 
 her self-justification wrong, could she lay the blame either 
 of the act or the opinion upon Agamemnon ? Moreover, if 
 I am not in an error, oi tteXos cannot denote simply those 
 who are near of kin, but only those with whom a near in- 
 tercourse subsists. 
 
 557. e^^pxh fie Xo'yoir. Mt. § 423, Obs. " Sometimes, 
 especially in the poets, verbs which of themselves cannot 
 govern an accusative take that case on account of the ac- 
 tive sense which lies in them," i. e. through their connection 
 with some other word, e^px^s \6yois together contain the 
 active idea of addressing first. Comp. Eurip. Androm. 
 
 1201 (1199), cited by Mt., Seanorav 7001s Karap^a, i. e. I 
 
 will begin to lament my master. 
 
 564. TO TToXXa irvcvfiaTa, " multos illos ventos, qui flabant, 
 vel qui flare solent. Hoc postremum cum natura Euripi 
 [i. e. the strait between Eubosa and the mainland in which 
 Aulis lay], qui locus, si,quis alius, ventosus est." Herm. 
 Comp. Eurip. Iph. in Taur. 6. 
 
 566, 567. kXvco, see Prometh. 683, note (2d ed.) 
 
 nal^ou Musgrave explains of the sport of running, with 
 which noSoiu agrees. He was hunting, when he killed the 
 animal, according to the Schol. on Eurip. Orest. 647 (651), 
 which Sophocles cannot have intended, the place being a 
 sacred grove. 
 
 568, 569. Kara (rcj>ayds, in ctede, Brunck. According to 
 Mt. '§581, Kara here means on account of. Herm. writes 
 kaTa(r<payas in one word, following eKKofjmdtras, which, like 
 
 Kop-wa^a, may take an accusative or a dative with eni. 
 
 " eiros n, dicit, quia veretur repetere dictum illud, ut im- 
 pium." Herm. jSdXXeti' cttos is like pmrfiv ettoj. Comp. 
 Alcest. 680. 
 
 581. Schaefer (Meletemata, p. 115) lays down the rule, 
 that opa fifj with the subjunctive = cave ne, vereor ne (see 
 an instance v. 1003 infra), and with the indicative = vide 
 
106 ELECTRA. 
 
 nwm, which Wunder more correctly alters into vide an non. 
 This latter sense is needed here, and as most MSS. give 
 ridrjs, I have followed Wunder in admitting the indicative, 
 but in the form rldeic, into this edition, instead of rid^s, which 
 Hermann defends. Comp. Antig. 1253, note. 
 
 589, 590. eva-f^eZs. Schol. min. cvvofiovs, ^yovv e| ewofiov 
 yd/iov • and so Brunck, legitimos. But the ordinary sense 
 may be retained here, and there is a contrast with n-a- 
 
 T^aiivaia of V. 587. ei eiirefiav, i. 6. of Agamemnon. 
 
 eic/3aXoO(r ?x^"> ^'^^ '^^^^ offi o^" treated with entire neglect. 
 Comp. CEd. R. 611, ^I'Xoi' U^aKdv. 
 
 594. yafu'urBai, is said of the woman contracting mar- 
 riage ; yanelv of the man. 
 
 596. ^ naarau trjs yXSiiTirav. Uvai ■yXSo'trav, like ievai ard/ia 
 in CEd. Col. 132, is figuratively used for Uvai fjxav^v. Traa-av 
 here denotes the constant repetition of the charge. 
 
 600. roC re a-vvvofiov, and from thy mate. This word, 
 which properly denotes feeding together, as in Philoct. 
 1436, is here used in speaking of a husband, and in CEd. 
 Col. 340 of a sister i 
 
 603. ludarap, properly, one who pollutes, who by crime, 
 especially murder, causes pollution to others by contact. 
 CEd. R. 353. Hence a man stained with blood, as in v. 275 
 supra. But here the word denotes an avenger of blood, and 
 it is thus used also concerning a slain man who torments 
 his murderer, Eurip. Med. 1371, and an avenging spirit or 
 fiend. aXaarap and TroKa/ivaios also unite these two ideas 
 of the criminal and the avenger. The avenger wrought 
 murder, and was polluted, until he obtained purification. 
 
 609. KaTauTxvva, being often applied to those who are 
 inferior to, or reflect dishonor upon, their honorable parents, 
 is here used sarcastically by Electra concerning her resem- 
 blance in bad qualities to her mother. 
 
 610,611. cl, whether. ^ivecm. The subject of this 
 
 verb is /leVos according to the Schol., sc. fievos g. avTs, but 
 
NOTES. 107 
 
 Electra according to Herm, sc. 'H. ^iveim iie'vei. Either 
 is admissible, Cotnp. v. 600, and Antig. 371. Schneide- 
 win, again, thinks, less correctly, that Clytemnestra is the 
 object of Spa, but that the reference is purposely ambiguous 
 
 on account of the awe which the queen inspired. TovSe 
 
 refers to thp foregoing clause. 
 
 614. Here and in CEd. Col. 751, ttjKikovtos is used as a 
 feminine for rriKiKavTrj. These are the most remarkable 
 instances of poetic license in regard to the common gender 
 of adjectives. 
 
 626. Bpatrovs rovSe oiiK aXv^eis. Here Electra's impu- 
 dence is conceived of as pursuing her, and as overtaking 
 her when she suffers for it. The Hebrews said, " Your 
 iniquity shall find you out," with the same figure. 
 
 628. TTpos opyfjv eK^epei, you burst into a passion. Gomp. 
 this verb in Alcest. 601. 
 
 630. The sense is. Wilt thou not tJien let me even sacri- 
 fice in silence 1 oiSe pertains to 6va-m. ino denotes ac- 
 companiment, as in V. 711, x"^"^' ^"■o' o-dXmyyos ^iav, they 
 
 started at the sound of a brazen trumpet. €v^p.os /3o^ 
 
 signifies, properly, a cry or voice of good omen ; but as 
 almost any expression during sacred rites might be of bad 
 
 omen, and silence was of good, eij<pqpjis ea-ra, evipripeai, 
 
 tioroji fx^ (Philoct. 201), and the like, came to include 
 silence, and, by a singular fate of words, this meaning pre- 
 dominated. 
 
 635. avann TfflS'. By this is meant a statue or altar of 
 Apollo, in the shape of a conical pillar standing before the 
 door. Comp. (Ed. E. 919. The usage of tKese pillars 
 prevailed especially in the states of Doric descent. For 
 avaKTt, see Antig. 988, note. 
 
 636. dvd<TX'o evxds. The use of dvix^tv with eu^V"* *" offer 
 a vov} or prayer, seems to be derived from holding up the 
 hands on such occasions ; := dvix^iv x^'^P<^^ eix6p.evov. So 
 ln^dWeiv x"pis TTio-nv, Philoct. 813, to pledge faith with the 
 
108 ELECTRA. 
 
 hand, comes tiovi putting the hand in another's hand in 
 pledge of any thing, in which sense e/i/SaXXetv x"P" is found, 
 
 Trachin. 1181. In v. 637 v'Sij, already z^ with no 
 
 further explanation on my part. irpotrraTrjpu probably 
 
 protector, defender from evil. 
 
 638. " Eecte monet Musgravius, j3a|ti/ KeKfiVji-itivrjv non 
 de submissa voce, sed de ambiguitate et obscuritate dicto- 
 rum intelligi debere." Herm. And so fito-o-Sv oveipav is 
 most probably to be understood. 
 
 642, 643. liaTaiav = i/cevSi}. Schol. recent. &8e, 
 
 i. e. when I use such obscure expressions. T-jSe, hae 
 
 ratione, Wunder. Comp. 1302, Trachin. 554. But t^Se 
 may well refer to Electra, and koi be taken with it, being 
 out of its proper place. The sense will then be, I will say 
 it for Tier also, i. e. will so say it, that she may hear and 
 not understand. So the Schol. just named have it. 
 
 646. el 7ri<privcv ca-6\d, if they have appeared, or are come 
 betokening good. 80s n'Xe<r(j)6pa, give them to me ful- 
 filled, sc. grant the fulfilment of them. 
 
 651. dfifj)ijrciv depends on 80s, to be' supplied from its op- 
 posite p^ cqbjs of the previous sentence. 
 
 653. cvriptpova-av is to be taken with ^wov(rav ^iXoio-i, 
 
 living in prosperity with my friends. TiKvav is for 
 
 tIkvois, being attracted to its relative (comp. Alcest. 523). 
 (cat answers to tc after (jyiKouri. 
 
 655. Schneidewin notices the repetition of X here, as 
 denoting the insinuating entreaties of Clytemnestra. He 
 also remarks, that in the next line to. S" SKXa refers espe- 
 cially to the wish that Orestes and Electra may be put out 
 of the way. 
 
 660. Just as the prayer was finished, it seemed to be 
 fulfilled. Human ignorance and guilt, having lost all faith 
 in eternal justice, now triumph, and are certain of final 
 impunity; but divine wisdom deceives, and by deceiving 
 ruins them at the acme of hope. There is a striking scene 
 
NOTES. 109 
 
 of the same kind in CEd. R. 945 et seq., where Jocasta 
 openly contemns the oracles of the gods as being false, 
 which in a few minutes assert their truth, and involve her 
 
 and her husband in utter ruin. The Schol. observes, 
 
 that the old man here avoids the extremes of pity and glad- 
 ness, acting the part of an indifferent stranger. He also 
 remarks, that the poet was happy in making- Electra and 
 Clytemnestra hear the news together, that the story might 
 not be told twice, and that the feelings of both might be 
 shown at the same time. 
 
 663, 664. The sense is. Am I right also in again guess- 
 ing that this is his wife ? Kvpclu here means to hit the 
 mark, reach the truth. Comp. ^sch. Suppl. 584 (589), 
 
 KoL t6&' &v ykvos \iyav l| 'Ewdfpov Kvprja-ms, you Would be 
 right in pronouncing us sprung from Epaphus. ruyxdva> 
 is similarly used in Philoet. 223. For 7r/>«r«, she ap- 
 pears, see Alcest. 512. Or it may have the more emphatic 
 sense of conspicua, or decoro adspectu esse. 
 
 668. iSe^afiriv to pijdev, accepi omen. I receive what was 
 said as betokening a happy answer to my prayer. The 
 aorist iSe^d/jajv narrates what were her feelings the moment 
 before, when the other was pronouncing the words of good 
 omen. 
 
 670. To what was said in the note on v. 45, 1 here add 
 from Hermann (review of Miiller's Eumenides, Opusc. 6. 
 2. 186), that the poet shows great judgment in making this 
 message come from Phanoteus rather than from Strophius, 
 the uncle of Orestes, and natura,lly the foe of Clytemnestra. 
 She would not have put credit in the news if communicated 
 by Strophius, but would have suspected some plot. Two 
 separate messages are therefore contrived ; one from Pha- 
 noteus, the bearer of which meets with ready audience ; 
 the other from Strophius, with the ashes, which naturally is 
 brought more slowly, and is thus received with confidence. 
 
 676. For the participle 6av6vTa following Xeya, comp. 
 10 
 
110 ELECTRA. 
 
 Mt. § 569. 5. dyyeXXa is SO used in 1443, 1452. Usually 
 the infinitive, or the participle with i>s, occurs in such cases. 
 
 Another reading of considerable authority for naXai 
 
 Xeya is tot ivveira. For niv re Koi TrdXac, comp. Antig. 181. 
 For vvv re Koi Tore, V. 907 infra. The present tense in- 
 cludes the past in such cases ; and usually is found even 
 with iraXai alone. 
 
 682. Trpoa-xvfta governs the two genitives in different re- 
 lations. Comp. Eurip. Androm. 148, aroK/iov re xP"'''^^ '■d"" 
 &€ TToiKiXav TTCTrXau, and Eurip. Electr. 443, 'H^aiWou xp^- 
 (riaai dK/iovaiv fi.6x6ovs curTrurras • • • Tevx^ov, 1. e. the armor, 
 viz. the shield made upon YulcarCs golden anvil. The 
 sense is the same as if aySiva stood in apposition with it, 
 Grmcia's pomp of games. Or, as Herm. explains it, aywva 
 
 takes the place of an adj. = ayaviariKuv. See v. 19. 
 
 " aSKav x"/""' dicit, quia non spectatum sed certatum venerat 
 Orestes." Herm. I. e. dymv here denotes the games as an 
 institution and an assemblage ; Mka as a series of contests. 
 
 684. &p6nov. Several MSS. have Bpo/wv, which Herm. 
 adopts, supplying Kpimv from the next clause. The Olym- 
 pic, and probably the Pythian games began with the sta- 
 dium race. 
 
 686. The sense is, equalling the end of the race with his 
 form, i. e. closing the race, by gaining the victory, with a 
 brilliancy corresponding to his personal appearance. So 
 Find. (Nem. 3. 32) says of an athlete t>v koKos, tpSmv t ioi- 
 Kora pop(jia. There is allusion to 'Xap.wpos of v. 685, and 
 ipins =z ei&os.' Several SchoU. gave this sense to this not 
 obscure passage. But Musgrave conjectured rfj '<j)ia-ci, i. e. 
 acjjea-ei (=j8aX^i'St, carceriius), which most critics since 
 have Teceived, although not agreed as to the meaning of 
 the passage. According to Brunck, equalling the close of 
 the race with the start is hyperbolical language, denoting 
 going through the course in an instant, which is flat and 
 forced. According to Hermann, the expression means, 
 
NOTES. Ill 
 
 going lack to where he set out, which, he says, is a very 
 plain description of the diaulus. 
 
 689, 690. Kparri = vUas. Comp. V. 85. Ppa^rjs. 
 
 Comp. vv. 1107, 1442 ; K. § 57. 
 
 691. All the MSS. have Spofiav SrauXmi/ TrevrdeSK" or 
 jrevraSK' 5, which absurd reading is altered by Person into 
 bpofiav 8iav\av &6\' aircp yo/xtfeTot. Herm. considers Trev- 
 Tded\a as put by attraction for the genitive, but does not 
 say how the genitives of this line are governed. jrevr-afflX' 
 & makes the measure harsh, and the form aeffKov for S^Xop 
 is un-Attic. The pentathlum, again, seems to have taken 
 place on the second day, after the horse-race. Hence the 
 text fbllows Person's conjecture, but the line is probably 
 spurious, hpofitov biav\av z^ bpop,tav biavkav t€. 
 
 697. SivaiTo has an indefinite subject, e. g. ns. Comp. 
 V. 1323 ; K. § 238, E. 3. 
 
 698, 699. imriKav, sc. S6\av, which word, or lepd, is un- 
 derstood in TO '0\vp.7na, ra Uidta. axvirovs, relating to 
 
 swiftness of foot. Comp. the expression in v. 861, and 
 dpioToxftp ayav, x\jax 935. 
 
 702. App-aTcav for mirav, by metonymy. See Alcest. 67. 
 
 By Ai/3i/e£, the Greeks of Gyrene in Libya seem to be 
 
 meant, who also colonized and possessed the neighboring 
 town of Barca (v. 727). Their skill in horsemanship is 
 abundantly shown by several of Pindar's Odes. They were 
 the first Greeks who drove four horses abreast (Herodot. 4. 
 189). Comp. Casaub. on Athen. 3, cap. 22. But there is 
 an anachronism, since Cyrene was founded long after the 
 time of Orestes. By a still greater anachronism, the poet 
 refers the Delphic games of his own day to the era of the 
 Trojan war. 
 
 703. Thessalian horses were highly prized by the an- 
 cients. Hence the direction in Athenseus 7, p. 278. E, to 
 seek out htttoi/ dea-craXcKfiv AaKeSmpoviriv re yvvrnKa, as be- 
 ing the best of their kind. jEtolia, too, was famed for 
 
 horses. Strabo, viii.^ 388. 
 
112 ELECTEA. 
 
 706. The jEnianes were a Hellenic tribe, dwelling on 
 
 Mount CEta, and therefore called also (Etsei. White 
 
 horses were an aristocratic distinction at Athens, as white 
 asses were among the Jews. Judges v. 10. 
 
 708. BUaTov eKwXrjpSiv o\ev, " numerum decern curruum 
 curru suo implens, i. e. ordine decimus." Herm. 
 
 709. od'. " o6i, ubi, si bene memini apud Euripidem 
 non legitur nisi in melicis, et in metro anapaestico." Elms- 
 ley on Eurip. Iph. in Taur. 34. ' This is the only case of 
 the kind in the trimeters of the tragic poets. 
 
 710. avTovs KXripois emjXaj/, literally, cast them hy lot, i. e. 
 by casting lots assigned them their place. The proper 
 object of irdWeiv is KKripovs, which being omitted, the verb 
 alone came to mean to cast lots, and by consequence, in an 
 
 active sense, to allot, or assign by lot. vmi a-dXmyyos. 
 
 See V. 630, note. 
 
 713. iv. Herm. says, that the adverbial ev corresponds 
 with simul only in the sense of therewith, or besides, and 
 not in that of thereupon, and therefore reads « in this pas- 
 sage. But as ev TovTots has the meaning of at the time of 
 these things, as well as that of amid or together with these 
 things, why may not cv alone have both acceptations } It 
 has the same sense in Antig. 420. 
 
 715, 716. <j>op€i6\ (fieiSovTo, are here written without a 
 coronis, on the supposition that the augment is omitted. 
 Upon the question, whether elision takes place, or the aug- 
 ment is omitted, see Mt. § 160. 
 
 717. xvoas Suidas defines by (rvpiyyat. The latter, he 
 adds, from the Schol. on this place, " is the part of the axle 
 inserted into the hole of the wheel. And the hole of the 
 wheel itself is also so called." The first signification ob- 
 tains here : comp. vv. 721, 745. Perhaps <rvpiy'^ properly 
 denoted the hole, xvoi/, the end of the axle, ■nXijp.vri, xotvUrj, the 
 nave of the wheel ; but they are more or less confounded, 
 — — /Sdo-etj, orbitas. 
 
NOTES. 113 
 
 719. Brunck cites Virg. Georg. 3. 111. "Humescunt 
 ' spumis flatuque sequentum." Add Iliad xxiii. 380. 
 
 720 — 722. i(rxaTrjv a-TrjXriv, the last pillar, the meta around 
 which the charioteers turned. The spina, which ran a little 
 obliquely near the middle of the Eoman circus, was want- 
 ing in the Greek hippodrome, where several pillars in a 
 line divided the course. In the same way or^Xijw aKpav, 
 V. 744, is explained in a Scholium of a Barocci MS., which 
 may be seen in Vauvillier's edition of Sophocles, by roc xafi- 
 
 WTTJpa avTov tov TeKevraiov. ex""" ™o, driving towards : 
 
 properly, keeping his horses in the direction of, guiding 
 them towards, mirovs is here to be supplied, as in several 
 similar phrases. vn6, with verbs of motion, strictly denotes, 
 direction under, and the noun which it governs is an ele- 
 vated object, avrrjv here contrasts the pillar itself with its 
 neighborhood, and may be translated with viro, directly 
 
 under, directly towards. Ss^toi', k. t. X. Of the four 
 
 horses abreast, the inner pair were under the yoke, but the 
 two outer ones were only held by a rein, and hence_called 
 uetpaioi. The driver turned towards the left, so that the 
 horse next the meta is called 6 -KpocrKetnei/os, sc. tjj a-rfjXri. 
 The horse on the right, being farther from the pillar and 
 making the greatest arc in turning, had full rein given him. 
 Comp. Antig. 138 - 140, note. This passage is suggested 
 by Iliad xxiii. 336, where Nestor, after telling his son to 
 draw up close to the meta, and to lean with the weight of 
 his body towards the left, adds, drop tou ^e^iov ittttov | kivo-cu, 
 6p.oKKTI(Tas, el^ai ri ol rjvla xep(Tl,v. 
 
 724. aa-TOfioi. Scbol. a-Kkripoa-Topoi, and SO Suidas. Comp. 
 
 Plutarch. Vit. Artax. § ix., Kvprn yewalov Ittttov, &arop,ov 8e Kai, 
 v^purrfiv eXavvovTi. 
 
 125, 126. ^la ^^pma-iv. Comp. Eurip. Hippolyt. 1224. 
 
 " /3ia (f>epeiv, vel uno verbo eK^^peiv dicitur equus, qui, frenis 
 
 non parens, effuso cursu, rectorem aufert." Herm. It has 
 
 the same sense with ^i? ^eperai. Plato, Phsedr. 254. A. 
 
 10* 
 
114 ELECTRA. 
 
 ^-^ fK 8' vno(TTpo(ji^s is variously explained. Hermann ren- 
 
 ders it by ex iteralo, rursus, denuo, and taljes it with tc- 
 \ovvTcs. "Dum ex iterate sextus ac septimus jam cursus 
 peragitur. Dicit lioc : metas iterum atque iterum ambiendo 
 sextum et jam septimum cursum agunt," etc. The phrase 
 thus understood is nearly idle. Wunder joins it to crvfiTral- 
 ovtri in the sense of reversing their course, or turning 
 round. " In contrariam partem aversi . . . adversas frontes 
 impingunt." Schneidewin explains it by the German phrase 
 "aus der Wendung.(der Bahnlinie) gerathend," getting out 
 of the direction or race-path. The context, even v. 727, 
 leaves it uncertain whether the poet conceives of these 
 
 horses coming into collision from the side, or in front. 
 
 TtKovvTes is masculine, because otttoi was in the poet's mind, 
 
 which is of that gender, v. 722. cktov e/SSo/oiov re. ^87 
 
 belongs to f^Sofioii, and tcAoCjt-es with that word supplies a 
 future's place. The sense is. While performing the sixth 
 course, and already in the act of performing the seventh. 
 But Musgrave says concerning e/SSo/iov re, " septiwiumvei; 
 puto enim n, et, pro ^, aut, hie usurpari." To this Wun- 
 der accedes. On one occasion (Pind. Pyth. 5. 65) forty 
 chariots were broken. 
 
 731 - 733. The Attic poets omit no occasion of glorify- 
 ing their countrymen. dmiaaxeieiv, according to Suidas, 
 
 " is properly used, when, in a storm at sea, men take in 
 the sails, and toss upon the spot where they are, without 
 trying to make head against the wind." So Herodot. 6. 
 116 uses it to denote in alto tenere, but 7. 168 to stop by 
 the land. But here it answers to amiretpd^eiv, to rein hack 
 or in. napeis, letting pass. 
 
 734. "Verba Sophoclis duas admittunt interpretationes, 
 unam, quae Monkio placuit; postremus quidem vehehatur, 
 sed cohibebat equos, ut qui in fine spem repositam haberat. 
 In qua tamen insolentius dictum videtur varipas ex"" ras 
 jriXous, retinere equos ut vosteriores sint. Altera interpre 
 
NOTES. 115 
 
 tatio, et ea mihi quidem verior videtur, heec est, qua Se non 
 ad imipas ex'"^ TraXovs, sed ad t^ reXei irlanv <f>ep<ov refera- 
 tur : posterior quidem vehehatur Orestes, sed, quum minus 
 validos equos Jiaherat, in fine ponens fidueiam. Ita, ut 
 statuam, facit Homerus, quem imitatus est Sophocles (Iliad 
 xxiii. 319)." Herm. But the interpretation of Monk is to 
 be preferred, because the local sense of varipas forces itself 
 
 upon the mind. ea-xaros, not outmost, but furthest he- 
 
 hind. The Athenian had escaped the general disaster by- 
 reigning his horses in, and turning outwards ; Orestes, by 
 being behind. 
 
 736. " Interpretes 6 he de Oreste, v\v de Atheriiensi in- 
 telligunt. At sic nemo "non ckcIvou potius quam p\u dici 
 expectaret. Niv enim de eo dici necesse est, de quo potis- 
 simum sermo est. Atqui is est Orestes." Herm. But 
 the sense requires that d be referred to the nearest subject, 
 Orestes. He had kept his horses back, and now, seeing 
 one competitor alone on the ground, urges his horses to 
 their full speed. In other words, Siaxei necessarily, as well 
 as ^\avv€, points at an action of Orestes. An excellent MS. 
 has ojTffls 8' for 6 8' i>s. 
 
 738. StdiKei, pushes on ; ittttovs is to be supplied. # 
 
 741. The courses were twelve in all. Find. Pyth. 5. 45. 
 
 wpdovB', he passed straight onwards through the 
 
 courses. But Ellendt interprets this word, as in the pas- 
 sive, with the sense of erigor, thus burdening the poet with 
 an unusual tautology. Comp. Philoct. 1299 for the sense 
 
 which seems here to be required. op6os e| Spdav, 
 
 standing upright in his upright (yet not overturned) char- 
 iot. c| is used because the action of driving to the spec- 
 tator seems to proceed out of, or exert itself from, the 
 chariot. Comp. Antig. 411 for ex, and Antig. 1266 for the 
 adjective used twice. 
 
 743. \vau, while in the act of disentangling the rein, 
 which was held fast by some of t'le gear, so that he was 
 
116 ELECTEA. 
 
 unable to curb the horse and keep the chariot far enough 
 from the meta. 
 
 745. /lea-as xv6as. Schol. recent. Kara fiia-ov edpavfre (rfjv 
 Xv^v)- -A- better explanation of fico-af than Ellendt's, who 
 says, " dictum quod axis rotse mediam partem tenet." 
 
 747. TtiqTois Ifiatn. See v. 863, and comp. Eurip. Hip- 
 
 polyt. 1245. irivTovTos iTkb(f. wlirretv is not very often 
 
 followed by a dative of that which is fallen upon or into, with- 
 out a preposition. Comp. Eurip. Orest. 88, Scfiviois TreirToiKe. 
 Msch. Choeph. 47, ma-ovros alfjiaros jreSo* Passow in his 
 Lexicon remarks, that ir'mra with h, or with the local dative 
 without l», has the sense, not oi to fall upon (which belongs 
 to miTTeiv els), but to fall and lie upon, to lie fallen on. 
 This explains the use of the present participle, as the events 
 mentioned could not have occurred while he was falling. 
 But mnreiv ev is not always so used ; e. g. in Antig. 782 it 
 may have the sense of Ifrn'mreiv, irruere. 
 
 749. arparos, the assembly. This word, which originally 
 denoted a body of men spread out or encamped (from the 
 root of arpiivvvjii, sterno, stratum), is often used, espe- 
 cially by ^schylus, as a synonyme of Xear. In the Iliad 
 Xeas itself denotes the troops, especially the infantry. 
 
 750, 751. For the form of this sentence, see the note on 
 Alcest. 949. dvokoXv^eiu takes an accusative of the per- 
 son, like fioav (Alcest. 235) and other verbs of crying and 
 groaning ; as denoting pity or sorrow. We have also dra- 
 XoXufeiv ^o^v, Eurip. Troad. 1000, like ^oSk /SoiJj' ; and dvoXo- 
 Xv^eiv efifias, to fill Thebes with shouts and cries, perso- 
 
 nare Thebas, Eurip. Bacchse 24. ota . . . ola may be 
 
 translated as if they were on, Toiavra . . . Totavra. Comp. 
 Alcest. 144. 
 
 752. Tore is to be supplied before (ftopovfievos. Comp. 
 
 Eurip. Hecuba 28, Kclfim 8' fir dxT-ais, SWot iv mvrmi a-aKta. 
 754. KaraaxcBovrts is accented as an aorist participle, 
 being clearly such in sense. Comp. Prometh. 16. 
 
NOTES. 117 
 
 757. Most MSS. read K^airej, but those which follow the 
 recension of Triclinius read Kfiavres., and this Buttm. 
 (Largest Gram. 2. 161) regards as the genuine epic form. 
 Erfurdt and Herm. read Keavres, as being more Attic. 
 
 758. (TTToSoG qualifies o-fi/ia, as an adjective would, or 
 denotes the material, like a-Te(f)avos dvBeav, hearts of stone, 
 etc. The sense is, a body reduced to miserable ashes. See 
 V. 19, and comp. v. 58. /liyiarov, i. e. once very great. 
 
 760. exKaxoi is a reading of superior authority to eKkdxn- 
 The optative, as fterm. says, is said ex mente illorum qui 
 afferant cineres. 
 
 762. TOLs S' ISovmv, ot mp fiSo/iev, spectatoribus, scilicet 
 nobis qui vidimus. Schaef. The last words are added, as 
 an epexegetical after-thought, to show that he was one of 
 the witnesses. 
 
 764. The term Seo-jroTijs is very rarely used, as in this 
 instance, by free persons in Greece (v. 129, 1227) in speak- 
 ing of their king. See Valckenaer on Eurip. Hippolyt. 87. 
 
 765. irpoppi^ov. See v. 512. 
 
 766. After tI ravra only a comma is to be put; two 
 clauses (viz. rl ravTa Xeym and irorepoi/ evTVxrj Xeya) bemg 
 condensed into one. Comp. Alcest. 675. 
 
 770. Seivov lariv, has a very great influence. Comp. 
 Prometh. 39. 
 
 771. For the use of the masculine singular here, comp. 
 Antig. 455, note. &v tckjj for &v hv t., as Monk remarks. 
 
 774, 775. BavouTos . . . Sans, of Ms having died, who, 
 aini being omitted. This use of a participle and a noun, 
 though admissible in Greek, is less frequent than in Latin. 
 
 780. ei fipipas, after it was day, as ap^ VH^pa means at 
 daybreak. 
 
 781. The sense is. Impending time always led me along 
 (the path of life) as though I should die ; i. e. I lived in 
 constant dread of being killed at some near future time. 
 „pocTTaTS>v. IviaTaiifvas, imyevop^vos, Scholl. And SO 
 
118 ELECTRA. 
 
 most modern interpreters. Neue finds in the word^ an 
 allusion to tiie office of a Trpoardrrjs, which is probably in- 
 tended by the poet, d Trpoa-Twrav xp^''°'i then, is time (a God 
 in V. 179), under whose tutelage or control I am. Soph- 
 ocles has wisely painted the mother's love and the murder- 
 er's dread of wrath as existing together in Clytemnestra's 
 ■ mind. As the two feelings are contrary, her joy at this 
 news is not excessive. She feels (v. 768) that her very 
 deliverance from the fear of vengeance is attended with a 
 sting. 
 
 783. vvv Se is repeated in v. 786. A double parenthesis 
 
 intervenes, occasioned by vvv, and by t^o-Se. tSjnjXXayijx 
 
 refers to the point of time when she heard the news. 
 There is therefore no need of mrljWayiuu, which many au- 
 thorities give. 
 
 785, 786. eKmvova-a. Comp. Antig. 532. Toi/ibv 
 
 agrees with m/ia ifruxrjs, life-hlood, as if they were united in 
 
 one word. mv 8i. The sense is. But now we shall 
 
 pass our days in quiet, I think (jtou), as far as this one's 
 threats are concerned. 
 
 792, 793. Schaefer joins roS Bavovros with aKove, and 
 places a comma after 'Sefua-i, in which case &>/ of the next 
 line is masculine. But no prayer addressed by Orestes to 
 Nemesis is alluded to ; while it is natural that Electra 
 should call upon the goddess to hear her mother's proud 
 taunts. Ne/ietrir 6av6vTos is like 'Eptvvvs irarpos, CEd. Col. 
 
 1434, and tov Spov 'Ikco-iov Ala, Eurip. Hecuba 345. 
 
 &i> 8fi, what she ought to hear, alludes to Clytemnestra's 
 pra;yers, that the proud threats of Orestes might meet with 
 retribution. 
 
 795. raSe =z Tavrrjv t^v fVTV\lav. In the next line, 
 
 ovx oTTtoy is elliptical for oO Xeym or ovk epS> oTTffls, and an- 
 swers to our not that. Monk takes v. 795 as a question. 
 
 797. ^Kois S.V . . . cl cTravo-as. Here ei with the indie, 
 takes the opt. with &v in the apodosis ; a past action being 
 
NOTES. 119 
 
 the condition, and a possible present effect the consequence. 
 See Mt. § 524. 2. 2. The sense is, If you have made her 
 
 to cease, — it can be said that you are come. cTrava-as 
 
 is used with allusion to the same verb in the previous lines. 
 
 800. In the first edition I admitted into the text KaTa^ias, 
 the reading of most MSS., which Hermann defends on the 
 ground that hv can be supplied from the preceding verse. 
 This is now changed into Kora^i av, in accordance with the 
 opinion of a number of critics ; — 1. Because three MSS. 
 are now known to contain the reading /car a^iav, which is 
 an easy corruption of Kard^i av, and Kara^las, like other ad- 
 verbs in <Bs (Elmsley oh Bacchse 192), may have stolen into 
 the place of an adjective form Karelia. 2. If Kwra^ias 
 irpa^eias be not, in this connection, " a palpable solecism," 
 as Monk says, still it does not appear to be " satis Grsece 
 dictum." 
 
 802. eKToBev for e|<o, because her cries would come from 
 without. So, V. 1323, rSiv evhodev, because some one came 
 out, and v. 1339, TavrtvOev, things thence, for things there, 
 state of things in the house, because the knowledge of 
 them came to persons outside. 
 
 805. beivas alludes bitterly to Sctto'j', v. 770. 
 
 806, 807. bixTTTivos. See v. 439, note. a\X', nay, 
 
 rather. 
 
 816. Spd fioi KoKas ex" iS) perhaps, said with allusion to 
 vv. 790, 791. These words are spoken plainly in bitter 
 irony. 
 
 818. ^vuotKos (sc. avTo'is) ea-croii. The text is suspicious 
 here, as the elision of the verbal ending m, by the tragic 
 poets, is very doubtful. Dawes transposed, ea-ofiai ^ivomos. 
 Herm. reads eto-ei;*'. 
 
 819. " napelcr sjmvttiv conjungendum cum rgSe TTpos irvKji, 
 ad hasce fores me ipsa permittens, i. e. mei copiam faciens 
 ad quodvis malum mihi inferendum." Herm. Brunck's 
 prostrata comes nearer to the sense of this phrase, which 
 
120 ELECTEA. 
 
 seems to mean, abcmdoning myself, negligently casting 
 myself. 
 
 826. KpvTTTovtnv. Suid. ovK S.yovo'iv Eis ^£s. But EUendt, 
 after Herm. and Monk, takes this word in its neuter sense, 
 latent. 
 
 830. firjScv /ley ava-jis is to be taken in the sense which 
 a gloss cited by Brunck gives to it, fiijSec cmpeires eh tovs 
 Ofovs earjjs. We must'suppose in the actor loud bursts of 
 grief. Hence the Chorus demands ri Scuepveis ; what need 
 of this hopeless grief 7 to which Electra answers by an 
 interjection of mingled grief and passion. Comp. Theocr. 
 Idyl. X. 20, lirjSiv fiiya /ivdev. Ajax 386, lajhiv jiiy etTTT/i. 
 
 833. eXn-iS' On-oiVejs. By the words of vv. 828, 830, the 
 Chorus implied that it retained some hope for Electra. 
 Her entire despair and dejection show that she could not 
 have uttered vv. 823-826, which are given to her by 
 Brunck. 
 
 836 - 848. The Chorus alludes to a case similar to that 
 of Agamemnon, in which a bad wife suffered divine ven- 
 geance. Amphiaraus, knowing that he should die if he 
 joined the expedition against Thebes, hid himself, but weis 
 betrayed by his wife Eriphyle, for the sake of a golden 
 necklace. His son Alcmseon avenged his death upon Eri- 
 phyle. Incidentally his honor in the world below is brought 
 forward as a comforting thought. Electra denies that the 
 cases are parallel, since he had a son to avenge him, but 
 
 Agamemnon has none. olha yap. I must suggest hope, 
 
 for I have in mind the case of, etc. KpvtpBivra xp^a-o- 
 
 SfTOis epKEcri yiwaiKav. After yvvaiKav in the MSS. dTraraicri 
 
 is read ; but it injures the measure, and is obviously a gloss 
 
 upon cpKfai. Kpv(j)6ivTa alludes to the earth's opening 
 
 and swallowing Amphiaraus alive. epKea-i, the golden 
 
 necklace given to Eriphyle, inasmuch as it was a snare to 
 her, and led her to betray her husband. In the Choeph. 
 608, iEschylus mentions another woman, Scylla of Mega- 
 
NOTES. 121 
 
 ra, who destroyed her father, xp^o-eoS/ifiToia-iu opjiois mBfj- 
 a-ao-a hapouri Mlva. Sophocles seems to have had the pas- 
 sage in his mind when he wrote these lines. Trd/iyjfvxos 
 
 dvd(Ta-€i. One Schol. iraa-av yjfvxav dvourcret. And so Mt. 
 -§ 446. 8, Herm., and others. Brunck on iEsch. Pers. 677 
 (691) says: " Veterum opinio erat reges, qui virtute et 
 factis excelluissent, apud inferos magna in dignitate" esse, 
 imperiumque in mortuorum simulacra, seu animas, exer- 
 cere." Comp. Odyss. xi. 485, cited by Brunck, and see 
 Blomf. on Persse, ubi supra (697 of his ed.). In a frag. 
 Eurip. has x^oviwi/ 'AiSi; iimx^is dpxrjs, and in Alcest. 746 is 
 a somewhat similar thought. But it may be justly doubted 
 whether the word can have this meaning. The Schol. also 
 defines irdji^vxas by dddvaros and by Siaaaxras irairav Trjv 
 iavTov -^vx^v, i. e. possessed of full vitality, unlike the half- 
 alive shades of the deceased. This last sense Passow and 
 
 others, with reason, prefer. Skoa yap. 0X017 has here a 
 
 passive sense, perdita. The Chorus began to say, For the 
 worthless woman — ; but Electra in a question anticipates 
 wjiat was intended to be said : was slain ? (do you mean i) 
 
 fieXiTcop. Suid. d eV'f eX-ou/ifvoy, 6 Tifiaphs toC irarpos. 
 
 — — TOW ei> irevBei, SC. ovra = tov 7rcv0ovp,evoi>, the lamented 
 Amphiaraus. Comp. v. 290, where ev irhBei means in 
 mourning for others. 
 
 849 - 859. heiKaia deiXaiav = SeiXatorarij. Similar super- 
 lative phrases are appriT appfirav, CEd. R. 465, ea-xar ca-xdrav, 
 
 Philoct. 65. Kvpeis, SC. oS<ra. See Antig. 487. Or Kvpe'is 
 
 can be active. Then the construction is SetXaia ovcra Kvpeis 
 SciXalcov, miserable already, you meet with (new) miser- 
 ies. In V. 852, Hermann's emendation, alam, appears 
 
 in the text, without which both metre and sense are embar- 
 rassed. Musgrave had conjectured aiKiav, but the adjec- 
 tives can hardly be used substantively here, unaccompa- 
 nied by an article. ■itap,p,T]V(f =. iraa-i p-ricrl, perpetual. 
 
 Comp. Antig. 607, 608. wava-ipTm iroXXau trrvyv&v re 
 
 11 
 
122 ELECTRA. 
 
 a^iasv =^ (TvpovTi itafi/irotCKa hewh nai tmryva, Electra sayS, 
 I also am aware, too well aware, of this, in a life which 
 for ever draws along with it a flood of miseries and ca- 
 lamities. In vv. 855 - 859 the sense is, Draw me no 
 
 longer aside (sc. from grief), where (i. e. in a case where, 
 when) I have no more the aid of my hopedfor noble 
 brother. iKniSav, object of hope, person hoped for. So 
 eXjTts is often used, as by St. Paul, Eom. viii. 24. Comp. 
 ixia-os, Antig. 760. apuyyai, derived from the Scholiast by 
 Musgrave, and now confirmed by one excellent MS., is 
 to be preferred to dpayol, with which the sense must be 
 hopedfor helper (v. 19). In that case the adjectives would 
 be joined to the genitive, by a poetic license, for which see 
 Antig. 794, note. 
 
 861-870. The preceding words are to be supplied? e^v 
 
 fiSpos TTaai 6vY)Tois ovtijus o)s Kelva ; ^oKapyos is from XV^V 
 
 = 6n\fj poetically, and apyos = raxvs. Comp. aKVTravs dyav, 
 
 V.' 699. oKkoIs, reins (from eXxca, as pvr^p from pvopai), 
 
 = t/iSo-i of V. 747, where tjuitoIs also occurs. iyKvpa-ai 
 
 is the subject of ctjxv, and /xo'pos its predicate. aa-KOTros, 
 
 " cujus finem conspicere nan possumits, immensa. Sic ' 
 
 aa-KOTTos xP"""' i" Trachin. 246." Herm. fe'vor, as a 
 
 stranger, in a strange land. • 
 
 871-874. Tot, profecto. Herra. Brunck altered this 
 
 into (j-ot. SiaKo/iai, propero. Brunck's translation; and 
 
 so Passow, who considers it as in the middle. But then 
 SiaiKopai . . . a-vv Ta^ei /loXeiv is tautological. With the pas- 
 sive, we have the sense, I am driven on by pleasure, which 
 gives both clauses their full meaning. 
 
 882. ixfivov as irapovra v&v MatthisB regards as a case of 
 the accusative absolute with a>r, the sense being, on the 
 ground that, or because I know that, he is present. Elms- 
 ley supplies e(8iiio, 6pS)(ra, or some similar participle (note 
 on Heraclid. 693). X/yw, however, may be easily supplied 
 from the preceding clause ; and the construction is like Xe- 
 
NOTES. 123 
 
 yova-iv ^fias as oXmXdrar, which Mt. § 569 cites from ^sch. 
 
 Agam. 683. v^v,for us both, seems to allude to thine 
 
 own evils and mine, v. -SSO. 
 
 885. e/iov re kovk aWov. " Videntur Graeci illo re Koi 
 interdum usi esse, ubi, si severius rem expendas, non erat 
 admittendum. Simillimum est /3ia re kovx exav in CEd. Col. 
 935, rpeis Te Kot 8cKa apud Find. Olymp. 1. 127." Plerm. 
 Comp. Mt. § 626. 
 
 888. av?)icecrra, cureless, thence ruinous : here used with 
 jrvpl, a fire or fever of joy, and with x^P^i Ajax 52. The 
 word is here used to denote that which ruins by maddening 
 the brain, or by the bitter disappointment which must fol- 
 low. 
 
 894. 6pZ c^ Sjtpas KoKavrjs is for 6pS> iw axpa koK&vtj. 
 Comp. Alcest. 836. And in the same way verbs of sight 
 often adopt adverbs of motion instead of those of rest. See 
 V. 1429. In this mode of speaking, the sight or image 
 proceeding from the object, and not the sensation, was 
 thought of. opa eK is, I have a sight, I receive an impres- 
 sion of sight, proceeding from. 
 
 895. miyas = x°^^i ^S in CEd. Col. 479. n-epiorf^^ 
 
 ayOeav, like 7ro\v(TTf<pfis 8a<f>irris, CEd. R. 83, eTTKTTecjifjs oivov. 
 Homer. Kiihner (largest Gr. § 525) refers this case to the 
 genitive of material. But see Mt. § 345. 
 
 899 — 901. yoKrjvrj. Schol. recent, ^{ruxta, iprjiiia' avBpZv. 
 
 ea-xarrjs = aKpai, v. 894, the highest part of. 
 
 Tnpas (for which see Alcest. 608, note) is a poetic genitive 
 of place. K. § 273. 4 ; Cr. § 379. The multitude of 
 words here used to denote the grave or burial-place is re- 
 markable. veapij TCTpripcvoy. She would know that it 
 
 was freshly cut by not having seen it before. 
 
 903. (Tvvj)6(s oppa, species animo ohversari solita. Herm. 
 
 905. ou 8v(T<j)ripS>, I utter no word of ill omen, i. e. I keep 
 silence lest some word of ill omen should escape me. See 
 V. 630. 
 
124 ELECTRA. 
 
 908. Tov. This genitive of a person seems to be used 
 as the source whence the decoration came, rather than to 
 depend on dyXalV/Ki understood. See Antig. 10. 
 
 911. wpos 6eoiis = jrpos vaoiis Tav Beav. Comp. Antlg. 
 199. y ye, quippe cui. 
 
 913. aide fi£u 8fi, nor indeed surely. aXKh shows that it 
 is an objection which she is answering. 
 
 914. iKavdavcv for iXdvdavev av. For the omission of &v 
 see Alcest. 901, note. " 
 
 915. ETTtTi'/xta is here taken for mar^s of /towor conferred 
 upon Agamemnon ; =: dyXata-fuiTa, v. 908. Dindorf con- 
 jectures imriii^ia. 
 
 917. avTos. The MSS. have avros here, which Buttm. 
 on Philoct. 119, and Wex on Antig. 929 (917), defend. 
 The former asserts that the tragic poets use avros in the 
 sense of idem, for 6 avros. The latter says, that alrhs is 
 employed when a person is conceived of as he is, and as 
 opposed to a change of his nature ; but 6 avros when he is 
 opposed to another subject. Thus ovk avros baijiovav in 
 the present instance should mean, not a different haltuav, 
 but a Saljiav with a different nature or character. But this 
 is at variance with the fact, that, when a man's fortune 
 changed, he was said to have another Saiiuov, and vice versa. 
 Comp. Alcest. 913, /iET-aTriTTT-oiTos Salfiovos; frag. Eurip. in- 
 cert. (68, ed. Matth.) " a prosperous man ought not to think 
 e|Eiv TOV avTOV balfiov fl(raei.^^ MatthisB (in the Addend, 
 to Eurip. Hippolyt., Vol. VII. p. 502) has refuted Butt- 
 mann's view at large, with his usual good sense, and has 
 brought Hermann round to his and the old opinion, that 
 airos is never idem. Herm. says, on Antig. 920 (3d ed.), 
 " avros, ipse, adjectivum est, quo quis ab suis distinguitur, 
 i. e. ab rebus omnibus quEe cum ipso conjunctse sunt. 6 
 airbs autem, idem, nomen est, quo quis in diversis rebus a 
 se ipse non diversus esse significatur." 
 
 919, 920. virdp^ei Kvpos, lit. will be the confirmation, will 
 
NOTES. 125 
 
 determine the existence of. dvoias. For the govern- 
 ment, comp. K. § 274; Cr. § 372; and vv. 1027, 1143, 
 1179, 1183, 1209. 
 
 922. Sttoi y^r. " Proprie dici debebat fcou y^s, et Sn-ot 
 yvafiris, sed per attractionem bis dixit ottoi." Herm. If 
 this be so, <^cpei, by zeugma, supplies the place of et with 
 Sttoi yrjs. The sense is, You neither know where you are 
 nor what you mean. 
 
 924. TCLKslvov . . . (raTtjpia, deliverance hy his hand, help 
 from him. ra a-a>Trjpta is here used as the noun crmrripla, 
 and takes the subject genitive. EUendt explains the phrase 
 unsatisfactorily, salus, vita ilUus, making eKeivov the object 
 genitive. 
 
 931. irpos TCKpov, brought to the tomb ; — the act of bring- 
 ing being implied in Krepia-fia, the mortuary present. 
 
 939. Xveiv ^dpos here is not to alleviate, lighten the 
 meight of suifering, in vrhich sense \veiv ps^eSrjp/ira, Xutri- 
 TTovos, etc. are used ; but to unbind, by unbinding to remove 
 the weight. 
 
 943. For tX^um with a participle, comp. Cr. •^ 633. The 
 construction with the infinitive is far more common. 
 
 949. Tis, not cfiCKai/, but wapova-la (jyiXwv, which is the same 
 as Trapebv cj>IXos. Comp. Alcest. 606. 
 
 950. XeXeipp^Bov. Elms, on Aristoph. Acharn. 733 (698,, 
 ed. Bekker), thinks that the Alexandrine grammarians in- 
 vented the first person dual ; of which Iliad xxiii. 485, 
 Soph. Philoct. 1079, and the present line, — all of them 
 easily altered, — afford the only instances in the Greek 
 writers, except two in a line of Pompeianus, — a hunter of 
 rare words cited by Atheneeus. This last circumstance 
 rather'favors the early existence of such a form, as Buttm. 
 (Large Gram. 2. 419) remarks. Nor is it credible, that the 
 grammarians, if they invented this form, should have been 
 so modest as to insert it in only three places of the classic 
 writers. On the other hand, its disuse accords with a class 
 
 11* 
 
126 ELECTRA. 
 
 of facts relating to the disappearance of the dual from a 
 number of languages. 
 
 951. ^ia ddWovrd t, i. e. eV ^'uo ovra BdKKovra re, = 
 fSi/ra Koi BaKKovra of Trachin. 235. Others read from con- 
 jecture BoKKoVT €T. 
 
 956. The poet makes Electra design to slay only .^gis- 
 thus, and not her mother ; being deterred by horror at the 
 deed, though she wishes it done, and rejoices in it, when 
 Orestes is divinely ordered to do it. In like manner Ham» 
 let was to slay only his uncle. 
 
 958. Monk and Herm. take ttoi with ^i-^aa-a ; the con- 
 struction being, ttoi, els tIv e\mSav^ /SXei^acra, fieveis paBvfihs. 
 But the Scholiast makes it =: eis rlva xpovov, and so joins it 
 with iieveis, which is to be preferred. But jrol rather = wp 
 to what point, until what shall happen. 
 
 . 962, 963. For the change in case from iareprjiieinj to yripd- 
 a-Kovcrav, comp. Mt. § 536. Both constructions are common ; 
 the dative taking the case of a previous noun, and the accu- 
 sative that of the subject of the infinitive. In the present 
 case the accusative was convenient on account of thb 
 measure. ravSe, i. e. XeKrpav implied in SkcKrpa. 
 
 969. o"<Tci, evae^eiav, Schol. recent, (oiiret) 86^av eucrejSeiar. 
 See Alcest. 1093, note. 
 
 971. KoKei is in the future middle with a passive sense. 
 
 972. opav irpos ri signifies, to look with inclination or 
 favor towards any thing. See Schaefer on Dionys. de 
 
 Comp. verb., p. 143. to xfl'"'^ = roiis xprjarois. 
 
 Comp. Antig. 659. 
 
 977. Masculine pronouns, adjectives, and participles are 
 often taken with feminines dual, or refer to them, as in vv. 
 1003, 1006. But here the noun is masculine, used instead 
 of the feminine Kcuriyvrira, according to Mt. § 436. 
 
 979. fZ pe^TiK6a-w, in a good situation, living in prosper- 
 ity, being in a prosperous course of life. Comp. vv. 1057, 
 1094. 
 
NOTES. 127 
 
 980. "Recte Musgravius (Eurip. Androm. 221), irpov- 
 arrjTriv tjiovov interpretatur administrarunt ccBdem." Herm. 
 
 982. iravbrifua jtoXm, i. e. in public assemblies, where the 
 citizens are collected together. 
 
 992. (jipevSiv iruyxave. Supply oSira. 
 
 996. ojrXifH takes the construction of verbs of clothing. 
 
 1000. Comp. Philoct. 259, Te^ijXe, Kam fUl^ov epxerm. 
 
 1002. SKvTTos Srris, without 'suffering harm, without harm. 
 Comp: SXxmos yfjpats, without the grief of old age, without 
 old age, CEd. Col. 1519, cited by Schaefer, Meletem. p. 79. 
 Adjective compounds of a privative often differ but little in 
 meaning from &v€v. 
 
 1005. \vei z= Xva-ireKei. In this sense it takes a dative 
 elsewhere. Herm. accounts for the accusative here by a 
 species of attraction, as the following verb takes that case ; 
 or by a constructio ad sensum, the meaning being the same 
 as if a)(j}e\et or some such verb had stood in this place. I 
 see not why Xutt may not be taken in the active sense of 
 freeing, as Erfurdt understands it, Kaxav being easily sup- 
 plied. The sense is apposite : to die ingloriovsly (i. e., as 
 the next lines show, to be put to a slow death of torture and 
 ignominious treatment) in no degree frees us from our 
 evils, nor henefit us. Comp. vv. 939, 944, to which lines 
 allusion is made. 
 
 1009, 1010. Brunck, in his version, joins ro irav with 
 ■ycvoff. But it is rather to be taken with SKiaBai, as an ad- 
 verbial phrase. Ka^eprifiZa-m, L e. wplv fjims i^eprjiiSia-ai 
 
 fifieTtpov yevos. 
 
 1012. The sense is. And I will preserve what has leen 
 said secret and undone, i. e. so that it shall remain secret, 
 
 and nothing shall result from it. croi, for thy sake. 
 
 (jivKd^ofiai here adopts the meaning of the active. 
 
 Gomp. V. 1504, where the construction with an adjective is 
 similar. 
 
 1013, 1014. vovv (Txes . . . elKaBetu, have the sense to yield. 
 
128 ELECTEA. 
 
 In V. 1465, the infinitive after vovv ctrxov is preceded by 
 
 aare. Comp. Ajax 1264, eW Vjilv a/Kpoiv vovs yevoiTO aco- 
 ippoveiv. aWa Tw xpo"^- Comp. the note on v. 411. 
 
 1015. Schneidewin, with some reason, gives vv. 1015, 
 1016 to Chrysothemis, whose advice to her sister, v. 428, 
 is of similar import. The Chorus, if it uttered these lines, 
 
 would side against Electra, which it nowhere does. 
 
 Treidov. " Brunckii MS. C. m6ov, qudd ab illo, magls Atti- 
 cum judicatum, receperunt Erf. et Schaef. — Est hie unus 
 ex ridiculis illis Atticismis, quales plurimos heec setas pro- 
 cudit. TTidov est oiedi, quod, est, statim mutari sententiam 
 et fieri quod jubeat, volentis : ncldov autem', sine tihi per- 
 
 suaderi." Herm. For \apetv limiting aficivov, comp. 
 
 Antig. 439. 
 
 1018. enrjyycXKoiirjv has not the sense of asking here, 
 which Thomas Magister, cited by Brunck, gives it, but 
 rather of bidding, like our word tell. 
 
 1022. For &v omitted, comp. v. 914. Others read Trdvra 
 
 y ap, or Trau yap av, 
 
 1023. (j>vcnv here denotes spirit, Xrjiia. She had the same 
 spirit then, but her youthful mind was not equal to the 
 task. 
 
 1026. iyx^ipovvra. Supply koko from KoKas. Comp. Find. 
 
 Nem. 4. 51, cited by the Schol. pe^ovrd n Kal iraSeiv eomev. 
 
 1028. Kal requires that a clause should be supplied, such 
 as avixop.aL vvv Kkvovtra. The sense is, I hear you with pa- 
 iience now, and I shall hear you with patience also when 
 you commend me ; i. e. I shall be forced to hear your con- 
 fessions, amid your calamities, that you acted rashly. 
 
 1033. pjirpi . . . ajj. " Hoc a^ magna cum vi additum ; 
 matri te digncs^ Schaef. 
 
 1035. The sense is, Bui then know at least to what a 
 degree of disgrace thou art trying to hring me by thwart- 
 ing my plans. In the next line, the genitives adopt the 
 construction of anpar here. Correlatives of ol must be 
 
NOTES. 129 
 
 supplied in thought. " The equality of the parts of the 
 
 line adds point to the sarcasm" (Schneidewin) ; an^j'as and 
 irpojifiBlas being weighed against one another. 
 
 1037. T& CTM fiixaio), wliat you call just. Comp. Antig. 
 573. 
 
 1040. ^ . . . KaKa. See v. 163. 
 
 1044. eiraivea-eis ifii, i. e. experience will bring you round 
 to my opinion. 
 
 1048. (jipovciv, to think of, pay attention to. (ppovelv 
 
 n, infra, v. 1056 ^= aliquid sapere ; and rotavra (ppSvei 
 seems to mean, talia licet sapias, i. e. keep that wisdom if 
 you will ; I want it not. , toiqCto there refers to n. But 
 another turn can be given to the phrase. 
 
 1052. oi5 /lij jieBk-^ofiai. Elmsley, on CEd. Col. 177, 
 Medea 1120, and elsewhere, teaches that oi p.^ with the 
 subjunctive denies, but with the future indicative forbids ; 
 and that in the latter case the verb and /iij are to be taken 
 together, while ov affects the whole sentence, which is in- 
 terrogative. Thus oi5 pr) XdX^creis aXX' aKoXovdrjCTfts lp.01, ; 
 means, leill you not not talk, hut, etc., i. e. do not talk, but. 
 He thinks ov pij elliptical for ov Seivov pf) in all cases. There 
 are several examples, which, he says, cannot be reconciled 
 with this rule, one of which is the present ; another, CEd. 
 Col. 177 ; a third, Aristoph. Frogs 512. In these cases 
 he alters the text, reading in the present line o5, ubi, with 
 some MSS. A fourth example, Antig. 1042 (where p-q 
 cannot belong to rpea-as), he does not notice. Herm., on 
 Elmsley's Medea (Opusc. 3. 236), agrees with him, as to 
 the interrogative nature of certain sentences where ou pfj 
 with the future is found ; but justly remarks, that the pro- 
 hibitive force is confined to the second persons of futures, 
 and is not owing to the nature of the tense. Thus, as ov 
 pevcts ; will you not stay 1 is closely allied to peivov, so 01! 
 pj] peve'is ; answers to /ii) peiinjs. Matthise, in his Grammar, 
 § 517, modifies Elmsley's views, but is quite confused, and 
 
130 ELECTRA. 
 
 erroneous in several points. Thus he regards v. 42 of 
 this play as affording an instance of ov nfj with a future ; 
 but n!) is there confined to the subjunctive, and the future 
 viTonrTevaav&i has only ov. 
 
 The following points seem to be clear : — 1. ov fi^ with 
 the subjunctive is elliptical for ov Sciviv foi, or some similar 
 phrase. Now, as words of fearing with iitj are sometimes 
 followed by a future indicative, so is it with ov n^ thus 
 elliptically used. The examples of this are rare, but not 
 on that account to be condemned. 2. ov iifj is sometimes 
 not for ov Seu/oi' liTi, but ov aifects the sentence, which is 
 interrogative, and ^i) the verb. In all these cases, the verb 
 is in the second person of the future. 3. The subjunctive 
 with ov /ifi and the future out of the second person deny ; 
 the second person of the future with ov fifj, if the interroga- 
 tion is resolved, answers to an imperative. 
 
 The distinction between ov nf/ liedc^o/iai and ov /i^ fierd- 
 o-fffflftai is at most a slight one. Herm. (Opusc. 3. 188) 
 says, that the subjunctive is used with regard to what we 
 fear will happen at a certain or not distant time ; the future 
 indicative, with regard to what we fear will happen at an 
 indefinite time. But the thing feared in v. 1029 is suffi- 
 ciently indefinite, although we have ov fi^ iraBjjs, and defi- 
 nite in CEd. R. 1075, where we have biboix mas fitj . . . 
 dvapp^^ei. 
 
 1054. The sense is, Tliere is great folly even in the at- 
 tempt to oltain things useless. By kcvo. Electra intends her 
 sister's plan of inaction. 
 
 1058 — 1069. Toils avadcv = tovs iv aipi. Comp. CEd. R. 
 965, TOVS avto Kkd^ovTas Spvis. avadev is for 3i/<a, perhaps 
 on account of the verb of sight. See v. 894, and comp. 
 
 Philoct. 28. eiropa>p,evoi, when we look with admiration 
 
 upon. Tpocjias Kribopevovs dcj) Sji, providing for the sup- 
 port of those from whom. The filial piety of storks is 
 alluded to. Comp. Aristoph. Birds 1353, where Patralceas 
 
NOTES. 131 
 
 says, that he wishes to choke his father, and get all the 
 estate. Pistheteerus replies : 
 
 " But we, the birds, possess an ancient law, 
 Graven upon the pillars of the storks, 
 That, when the father stork all the young storklets 
 Has fed, and fitted them to fly abroad, 
 The young in turn are bound to feed the father." 
 
 S>v = &v av. Comp. Mt. § 527. Obs. 2. evpma-l 
 
 has the sense of the middle evpavrai, procure for themselves, 
 
 obtain. The chain of thought in the first eight lines of 
 
 this strophe seems to be this : Why do we not act like birds 
 in respecting our parents ? But if, like Chrysothemis, we 
 are wanting in filial piety, we shall not long be unpun- 
 ished. dnovriToi. Supply tcKovimv rdde. )(6ovia ^po- 
 
 Toia-t ^ap.a. Rumor, who carriest news under the ground 
 for mortals. " The ancients held that the knowledge of 
 things in the upper world found its way to the dwellers in 
 Hades. The supernatural cause of this was ^ij/i?;, "Oa-a-a, 
 
 'AyyeXia." Schneidewin. Kara^oacrov ona. Comp. ^oav 
 
 Imriv, Philoct. 216, and the note on v. 750. dxopevra, 
 
 sad, mournful. So Eurip. Troad. 121, aras dxopeirovs. 
 The sense of the last clause is, carrying (i. e. announcing, 
 V. 873) mournful and disgraceful tidings. 
 
 1070- 1081. The sense of the first four lines is, that ere 
 now the affairs of their house are at a had pass, and, as to 
 what concerns the children, the discord of the two is no 
 longer settled in an amicaile mode of life. The first clause 
 speaks of the prosperity of the adulterers and former evils ; 
 the second, of the variance of the two sisters, which had 
 now become more declared. " Prior pars enunciationis 
 propter posteriorem addita est, hoc sensu, quum jam laio- 
 rent ex odio domestico (i. e. Clytemnestrse et jEgisthi), 
 aceedere etiam rixas sororum." Herm. But Wunder ex- 
 plains the first clause of the death of Orestes, in which case 
 o-^if/ can only mean Agamemnon. A syllable is want- 
 
132 ELECTEA. 
 
 ing at the end of v. 1070 ; Harm., after Triclinius, adds 
 
 Sri ; Wunder introduces voa-etTai into his text. SotXt; 
 
 4)vKoms is lilce iivai,iJ.ov veinos, Antig. 793, or like ajitpiKoyov 
 
 vcIkos, Id. 111. o-aXevet, properly, tosses, at anchor 
 
 upon the sea, is at the mercy of the storm. tow del, so. 
 
 Xpovov, if the text is right. Comp. fls rov varepov, Trachin. 
 80, and perhaps rbv ad, CEd. Col. 1584. eKova-a fur- 
 nishes the condition of the preceding line. The sense is, 
 ready to give up life (for /SXeVeiw see v. 66) after destroy- 
 ing (i. e. if thereby she can destroy) the two wretches. 
 'Epivvs, in Trachin. 895, denotes mischief, ruin ; here, author 
 
 of mischief , like a-nj in Antig. 533. eHwarpis, of a noble 
 
 nature, evyev^s is often so used, e. g. in v. 257 ; Antig. 38. 
 
 Tis . . . /SXaoTot ; Quis unquam adeo generosa existere 
 
 (vel nasci) possit ? Musgr. i. e. naturam adeo generosam 
 habere possit. 
 
 1082-1089. A syllable is wanting at the close of v. 
 
 1082. Herm. inserts ydp. fSw kokSs, hy living basely, 
 
 by consenting to retain life on base conditions (v. 989), not 
 
 rebus in adversis, as Brunck has it. as, quomodo, i. e. 
 
 in conformity with this conduct of the good. koivov 
 
 €i\ov, like Koivbv iroieiadat, CEd. R. 240, chose for thy com- 
 panion. Thus KOLvt>v is predicative, and the sense is, Thou 
 chosest a life all sorrowful for thy companion. This is 
 
 Schneidewin's explanation. KaOowKla-aa-a to fi^ koXov. 
 
 Schol. KaTarroXtfiria'aa'a to alcrxpbv Koi vncrjo-atra. Brunck, pro- 
 fligato scelere, by fighting down wickedness with armed 
 force. The participle is the means by which (jiepeiv may 
 
 come to pass. dio <pepetv Iv cVt Xoyo>, lit. in order to 
 
 obtain two things in one discourse, i. e. in order to acquire 
 two titles together, when she is spoken of; viz. Keick^a-Bm, 
 etc. 
 
 1091-1097. Herm. gives remv for tSw in v. 1091, his 
 own conjecture, and x^tpi for x^pi in v. 1090, from Eusta- 
 thius. Dindorf, in both his edd., gives imdxeip in v. 1092 
 
NOTES. 133 
 
 for irro x"po (x^P"> Erf. and Herm.), from a conjecture of 
 
 Musgrave and Hermann. apiara (pepofxemv seems to 
 
 be a phrase like ra Trp&Ta, or dpia-TeXa (jtkpea-Bai, to get the 
 first prize ; and Apiara tSkSc {yojiipMv), the first prize for the 
 observance of the laws. Comp. Antig. 368, where v6p,ovs 
 means, obedience to the laws. 
 
 1098, 1099. oped T£.. . op6as 8e. 8e is used instead of 
 T€, because of the extreme frequency with which it occurs, 
 after the same or a similar word in a second clause, as if 
 tihi and not re had preceded. See Herm. on Ajax 823. 
 Orestes takes for granted (comp. v. 759) that his pretended 
 errand is known, and so does not explain himself fully. 
 
 1101. ev6a for oTTov, in indirect interrogation. See Al- 
 
 cest. 785. mKTjKev. To explain the use of the perfect, 
 
 Wander says, " Non dubium est, quin oIkS> non tantum 
 habito, sed etiam sedem pono in aliquo loco, vel habitatum 
 aliquo concedo signiflcaverit. Hine erit mK-qKkvai habitatum 
 concessisse, vel sedem posuisse, i. e. habitare." 
 
 1102. a^rjfuos has an active ^iense here. He who told 
 you has done you no harm, sc. by misdirecting you. 
 
 1104. iroBeivfiv, longed for by Clytemnestra and ^gisthus, 
 as the Chorus should understand, but, as he meant, longed 
 for by Electra and himself. In the next line, the poet, 
 with refined art, introduces Electra to him so as to excite 
 his attention, and yet not in clear language; {or ayxtcrTov 
 can mean nearest in place, or nearest to the people of the 
 house in relationship. 
 
 1110. Trjv arjv KKrjSova, the report you mean. See v. 
 1037. 
 
 1111. For Strophius see v. 45. Orestes, as pretending 
 to come from him, a relative, could be expected not to 
 know exactly what the messenger from Phanoteus had told. 
 
 1113. (jiepovres ■ . • Kop,i^op,iv, we are bringing and have in 
 charge. 
 
 1115. TovT €Ke'iv ^8?j a-a(^es. "tout fKcivo is a common 
 12 
 
134 ELECTKA. 
 
 phrase, in which emra refers to something before said, or 
 thought of, or to some familiar truth. It is followed by a 
 sentence explanatory of toCto without a connective parti- 
 cle." Mt. § 471. 11. I have placed a colon after o-ni^e'r. 
 The earlier editions have a full stop ; Hermann's, and some 
 other modern ones, none, — without sufficient reason, as 1 
 
 think. Comp. Medea 98. SxBos is understood by El- 
 
 lendt, Wunder, and others perhaps, of the urn. Brunck 
 explains it as denoting Electra's burden of soul or grief. 
 This is somewhat favored by the next line, where her sor- 
 row is referred to, as though she had just alluded to it. 
 
 1117. T&v KaKav seems to depend on KKaieis, and not on 
 Ti. For the genitive following this verb, comp. Mt. § 368. a. 
 
 The Schol. calls attention here to the business-like 
 
 hardness of Orestes, who is afraid to betray himself by any 
 emotion, and moreover is acting a part. 
 
 1122. diroSipafiai is in the first aorist. , 
 
 1 125. Trpos aljiaros (fivcnv : i. e. oStra irpos cuftaTos Kara 
 (jivcrcv. <f>v<riv is almost superfluous, as in v. 325. 
 
 1126. Aulus Gellius (7. 5) relates, that a celebrated 
 actor, Polus, performed the part of Electra in this play, 
 after the death of a beloved son. " Igitur Polus," says he, 
 " lugubri habitu Electrae indutus, ossa atque urnam a sepul- 
 cro tulit filii, et quasi Oresti amplexus, opplevit omnia non 
 simulacris neque incitamentis, sed luctu atque lamentis 
 veris et spirantibus." 
 
 1127-1129. XoiTTov is taken with iivijficlov, and ijrvxrjs 
 
 in apposition with (^iXtotou ivOpimav efwi. air eXiriSav, 
 
 " secus ac speraveram. oix S>v7rep, particula ovk abundanter 
 posita cum attractione. Debebat enim dici koX oix "Wfo 
 efen-ffwroi/." Herm. 
 
 1133. KKiyjfatra. The nominative participle sometimes 
 appears in a subordinate clause after irpiv. 
 * 1134. " mms cKeuro non esse ut jaceres sed ut jacuisses 
 vix opus est hodie moneri." Herm. See Prometh. 157, 749. 
 
NOTES. 135 
 
 1138 - 1141. If Pope's elegant lines (which Monk cites), — 
 
 "No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear, 
 Pleased thy pale ghost, or grace thy mournful bier : 
 By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed. 
 By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed," — 
 
 are compared with these similar ones, Sophocles will be 
 found to be the better in simplicity and fenderness. In- 
 stead of pale ghost we have raXas, instead of 'gracing the 
 mournful Her, and decent limbs, we have the natural ex- 
 pressions for the works of loved hands at the funeral. 
 
 ev is used to denote the instrument, because the body was 
 
 in the hands of those who washed and buried it. affKwv 
 
 fiapos. Comp. Alcest. 204. 
 
 1152. Erfurdt and Herm. put a colon after lya, and 
 write (Tu, because o-oi " intolerabili languors foedat hunc lo- 
 cum," and Wunder says that they only can retain o-oi, " qui 
 sensum nexumque totius loci non perspectum habuerunt." 
 I incline nevertheless to adhere to the reading of the MSS. ; 
 and to interpret the phrase, I am dead by your means, you 
 have slain me. 6vri<TK<o seems to take a dative like that 
 which follows a passive verb, answering to the familiar 
 phrase, 0ave7v im nvos- Comp. Ajax 970, 0eois TeBvriKev 
 o^TOS, oi Keivoitjiv, oil. Id. 1128, 6eos yap fKirai^ei fi€, t^Sc, 
 8" olxoflai, is perhaps also in point. Euvip. Androm. 334, 
 ri6vj]Ka rfj otj Qvyarpi, suppose I had died by your daugh- 
 ter''s hand. 
 
 1171. The Schol. says, mBavas Trpoa-KciTai TO ovopa rijs 
 'H^eKTpas, iva p^aBrj 'Opia-Trjs, ov yap poinj rjv avra a8e\<j>fi. 
 
 1174. " Ut recte monet Monkius, nol Xoyav jungenda 
 sunt; qui tamen addere debebat, ad eumdem genitivum 
 participium a.p.r)xavSiv referendum esse." Herm. 
 
 1176. Hermann writes but one interrogation-mark in 
 this line, taking irpos t\ for irpos 8 n. Comp. CEd. K. 1144. 
 It may be doubted, however, whether two short questions are 
 not better suited to the excited state of Electra's feelings. 
 
136 ELECTRA. 
 
 1179. Ellendt, under rAas, considers ToKaivrji as an epi- 
 thet of av^ixpopas, like aiSKiov ToiKav, Philoctet. 1087, but un- 
 der ot denies that it can be so used, and understands it of 
 Electra, miserable on account of Tier hard lot. The first 
 explanation is the best. Comp. Ajax 980, &iu>i ^apeias S.pa 
 
 Ttjs ffi^s rvxns, where there is no ambiguity. Wunder 
 
 notices the happy art of the poet here, in representing 
 Orestes so astonished and affected by his sister's wasted 
 and woebegone appearance as to be unable to answer her 
 repeated questions. 
 
 1181. ddeas, without the gods'' help, in a state of deser- 
 tion by them. Comp. (Ed. R. 254, y^j S8' axdpiras KoSeas 
 
 i(j>dapii.evrjs, and 661, d6ia>s o\oip,rjv, 
 
 1183. rpocp^s, mode of life. So CEd. Col. 328. 
 
 1185. Orestes says. How ignorant was I, as it seems, 
 of my misfortunes ! i. e. he calls his sister's woes his own, 
 and means that he was little aware of the greatness of her 
 suffering, in which he thus sympathized, tovto in v. 1186 
 denotes his ignorance. 
 
 1 187. iiinpeTrova-av noKXols oXyeeri, not shining amid suffer- 
 ings by reason of constancy and greatness of soul, as Pas- 
 sow explains this phrase, (thus bringuig in a circumstance 
 foreign to the context, and about which Orestes could be 
 supposed to know nothing,) but conspicuous for a multitude 
 of sufferings, cv in this compound denotes amid, i. e. be- 
 ing environed with. Comp., from a frag, of Sophocles, yv- 
 vaiKop.tp.ois fpirpeireis etrorjpatnv, thou art conspicuous for 
 apparel imitating that of women, literally, conspicuous in, 
 i. e. being dressed in. 
 
 1191. m6ev TOVTO for mBcv Itrri tovto S, according to the 
 idiom explained in the note on Alcest. 106. 
 
 1193. dvdyKj! TrjSe vporpeTrei, " hac serviendi necessitate 
 COgit. 'Avdyieri vpoTpiirei idem est quod dvayKa^ei : et quum 
 TavTa dicere deberet, pronomen ad nomen dvdyKrj accommo- 
 davit." Herm. 
 
NOTES. 137 
 
 1194. elttroi seems here to be intransitive ; something as 
 the verb to equal in English has both the senses of to make 
 equal and to be equal to. Lobeck in the second edition of 
 his Ajax, p. 196, adduces examples of o/jioioco, irpoa-onodto, 
 fie(r6aj, in like manner deflected from their ordinary transi- 
 tive sense. 
 
 1195. Xi5/iS ^low seems to mean, ill treatment in regard 
 to the mode of living, privation of comforts. 
 
 1200. The inconsistency between this verse and v. 130 
 must be laid to the account of Electra's excited feelings. 
 vvv , . . TTore, now at last. 
 
 1201, 1202. With Erfurdt, Schneidewin, and some good 
 manuscript authority, I now read rots I'o-ois for Toia-i a-ots. 
 The sense is, {I pity) because I am here afflicted with equal 
 
 woes. ^vyyevffs . . . irodkv, a relative from any source, 
 
 i. e. in any way. Plat. Politic. 257. D, kivSwcvctov aiufxo 
 TToBiv Ijioi ^vyyevciau ex*'" "'"'' V^^ seem to be in some way 
 related to me. 
 
 1203. TO TavSe fiSvovv Trdpa = aiBe Trdpeicriu eSvoi. 
 
 1205. What is the poet's object in introducing these 
 lines, where Orestes requires his sister to lay down the 
 urn ? Would there have been an ill omen in Electra's 
 holding his supposed ashes while he revealed himself.? 
 Gr did he linger with the usual reluctance with which 
 men enter upon the disclosure of something momen- 
 tous, and thus guide the conversation to a point where 
 he could declare himself with "greater ease, and more 
 naturally ? 
 
 1207. Kovx ifiaprrja-ei ttotc, and you will not be a loser by 
 it at all. " 
 
 1214. arjfioj Tov TeBvrjKOTos, unworthy of the dead, i. e. 
 unfit to possess his ashes, or even to call him brother. 
 
 1217. ttXiji' Xo'yffl y ricrKruie'vov, except as artfully repre- 
 sented in words, = ttX^v \6ya, simply. 
 
 1220. In the moment of recognition, as the hearts of the 
 12* 
 
138 ELECTEA. 
 
 two beat quicker, they ask and answer in half-verses. 
 So Schneidewin. 
 
 1222-1224. ? yap, what then.' For yhp in questions, 
 
 comp. Antig. 732 seq. TrjvSe . . . narpos, this our fa- 
 
 ther''s seal-ring which I have ; for irarpos depends on a^pa- 
 ylSa, and px>v on narpos aippay'iha. 
 
 1224. & <f>iXTaTov (^£s. " Sic infra, v. 1354, & ^DvraTov 
 ^ms, quod explicans poeta, statim, addit & fiovos a-ai^p Sonav. 
 
 Sed imprimis compares Odys. xvii. 41." Schaefer. 
 
 But if <l)a>s in the present verse answers to a-arfip, meaning 
 Orestes, how can he add, ^IXrarov, (rv/iimpTvpa ? It is taken 
 here in the sense of a-arripia, or x^P") °^ better in that of 
 
 rjiikpa. 
 
 1225. & ^6eyp.a. Supply tpiXraTov. p;K£T aWoSev 
 
 iTvBri, inquire no more of any one else, i. e. learn it from 
 myself. Comp. (Ed. Col. 1266. 
 
 1226. as %x°"i '^ mayest thou have, as I wish thou may- 
 est have. 
 
 1230. " avp.(J3opa vox est media, quse in utramque partem 
 accipitur. — Alibi absque uUo ad bonam seu malam for 
 tunam respectu, nihil aliud quam airo^aa-iv significat." 
 Brunck. Comp. l\mi, SvetSos, Tv-)(rj. 
 
 1233. yovai <rcop.dTa>v. dvrl tov iviKov, yovii (rafiaros, ToO 
 Ayaiie/ivoms. Schol. 
 
 1239. a8p.^rav = irapdevov. It is used perhaps sarcas- 
 tically with allusion to the unchaste Clytemnestra. For the 
 
 use of the accusative, see v. 1063. The close of this 
 
 sentence is correctly translated by Brunck thus : nunquam 
 metuendum existimaho inutile illud domi usque desidens mu- 
 lierum pondus. irept^riTov S^dos yvvaiKav z= yvvaiKas irepuraoy 
 
 S^So! ov<ras, women who are a mere useless weight; who 
 are good for nothing as far as fighting is concerned. The 
 expression is lilie /Sdpoi wepia-abv yrjs, which is said of 
 the worthlessness of mankind by Sophocles in a fragment, 
 and S^flot dpovprjs, said by Homer of good-for-nothing men. 
 
NOTES. 139 
 
 Hermann's version of this phrase is, Clytemnestrm nimiam 
 semper severitatem. But neither evBov Sp, nor the contempt- 
 uous indignation of Electra, nor the answer of Orestes, 
 
 favors this strange translation. The Scholiast on this 
 
 part remarks, that " both speakers have their appropriate 
 characters. Electra, being a woman, and unexpectedly- 
 fortunate, is too bold : but Orestes is cautious on account 
 of engaging now for the first time in such an enterprise." 
 
 1246 - 1250. The sense is, Thou didst mention such an 
 evil as ours is, not covered with clouds (i. e. not obscure), 
 that cannot be undone, never to be forgotten. The unusual 
 
 order of the words arises from strong emotion. ini^a- 
 
 >€s. Schol. ivc^dKes fioi, you put me in mind of; more 
 properly, you struck upon, noticed. Comp. a somewhat 
 similar passage, Antig. 857. This verb elsewhere takes a 
 dative in this sense, vovv being understood ; but, like several 
 verbs in Sophocles, it is construed ad sensum. Comp. v. 
 
 1378. "Kqaofievov has a passive sense. See Antig. 
 
 210. 
 
 1251. orav irapovtria ippa^rj, whenever favorable opportu- 
 nity shall advise it. Here napova-ia has the sense of rat- 
 p6s, or rather denotes tlie circumstances of any present 
 time, which would be favorable, if they allowed of free dis- 
 course. For ?|oi8a Koi ravT, Hermann gives t^oiSa val 
 
 TavT ; Meineke, not raiiT. 
 
 1253. o Tray . . . xpov°^- Brunck renders this by quodvis 
 . . . tempus, and so Hermann seems to understand it. But 
 if the sense were, Any time would be proper for the men- 
 tioning of these things, should we not have nas Kaip6s ? 
 The meaning seems to be, TJie whole, the whole of time, 
 whilst it was present, would be proper (i. e. would be a 
 fitting occasion) for me to tell of these things, i. e. I can 
 very properly speak of these things for ever, rrapav alludes 
 elegantly to irapovma. With less excusable exaggeration, 
 Isocrates says (Ad Demonicum, near the beginning), iiriKi- 
 
140 ELECTEA. 
 
 TTOJ 8' &v fjjias 6 was xpoVor el nda-as ras iKetvov Trpa^ets Ka- 
 TapiBfirjtTai/ieda. i 
 
 1257. Toiyapmv o-mfou ToSe, therefore keep this (freedom). 
 Hermann says that this phrase means, keep until another 
 time this discourse about our evils. But if so, the answer 
 of Orestes in v. 1259 is substantially a repetition of this 
 verse, and then Electra's question, rt Spa><ra; by doing 
 what ? has no meaning. 
 
 1260 - 1262. The sense is. Who then, now that thou art 
 come, could thus substitute, properly at least, silence for 
 words ? a^iav may be conveniently rendered by an ad- 
 verb. S8e, thus, i. e. as you bid me do. 
 
 1266. The MSS. have en&pirev here, but the number of 
 syllables ought to be the same as in the corresponding line 
 of the strophe. The word liroipurev, sent onwards ibith a 
 fair wind, would suit the sense, but the middle syllable of 
 KaTCLKvtnjwv in the strophe is short. Dindorf gives enopia-fv, 
 which can have the meaning brought on the way. This I 
 have admitted into the text. 
 
 1271. elpyaBiXv. See Antig. 1096. 
 
 1274. oSov is taken with (jjav^mi, which contains the idea 
 of coming. The sense here is, O, since thou hast deigned 
 thus to appear to me, after so long, on a most welcome jour- 
 ney, &c. 
 
 1277. iifBetrOai is epexegetical, =: more /icdeadai avTTjV 
 (and not airrjs. See Herm. on this passage). 
 
 1278. Ibav, if I saw them, SC. airoarcpia-KOVTas, trying to 
 deprive thee of it. 
 
 1280-1284. tI papa's; So Herm. after Seidler, for ri 
 
 lifj oil ; which can have no place here. avSdv, the voice 
 
 of Orestes. The next two lines seem to mean, I kept 
 
 my feelings from utterance, listening without a cry. For 
 ecrp^oi' awiuSoK, comp. V. 242. vvv 8e, which follows, requires 
 these lines to be referred to some past event. Brunck un- 
 derstands them, as well as aiSav, of the story that Orestes 
 
NOTES. 141 
 
 was dead. But it is difficult to perceive the precise import 
 of the passage ; and it is no doubt corrupt. 
 
 1291. The synonymous words of this line are significant 
 of the tautology and prolixity into which Electra would be 
 apt to fall. 
 
 1292. xpovov Kaipou, opportunity afforded ly time. 
 1296—1298. ovras {^a-Kojrei) oirats, or oiiras (iroUi) otto);. 
 
 v^v, Orestes and Pylades. /mrriv = yjrevSas. See 
 
 V. 63. 
 
 1301 - 1303. Siras Koi <ro/. Kal often stands after words 
 of comparison, to show connection. Comp. v. 1146; Mt. 
 § 620, under Kai. 2. The fulness of the expression, &Se . . . 
 rS^e, and the emphatic place of the latter word, mark the 
 
 ' strength of Electra's acquiescence in his wishes. rov- 
 
 fdv, my part or conduct. ras ^Sovds, my pleasures. —— 
 
 KovK eiias ^ Kal ovK e^ ffiavTrJ!. 
 
 1307. oia-6a . . . TavdevSe. evdevSc here denotes time : you 
 know what comes next. Comp. Philoct. 895, rt SrjTa bp&ii 
 iya TovvdevSe ye ; unless it is better to understand it of place 
 (the state of affairs there, in the house), like ivrevdev, v. 
 
 1339. That jEgisthus was not in the house was implied 
 
 in vv. 1240, 1241. 
 
 1309. ju;7 Sfiar/s i>s. Instead of SeSoim jiTj, often occurs 
 8. as or oTi. In these cases the object of the fear is ex- 
 pressed without the additional idea of guarding against it. 
 Comp. V. 1427 ; Mt. § 520, Obs. 1. 
 
 1811. ftiCT-os IvTCTrjKi fwi. " Elegans metaphora, qua, 
 odium, tanquam infusa cera,- animo adhserere dicitur." 
 Brunck. 
 
 1312. The sense, according to Hermann, is, I will never 
 wholly cease from taking pleasure in shedding tears. But 
 as the simple genitive without viro is sometimes used after 
 passive verbs (Mt. § 375, Obs. 1), xapSs maybe for in-A 
 xapas, and the participle be joined with exX^^o). Schaefer 
 alters ^apSs into x"f?' 
 
142 ELECTRA. 
 
 1322. For Ijrrjvea-a used where we should expect a pres- 
 ent, see Alcest. 1095, note. iir e^dSa, at the gale-way, 
 
 or door- way. f^oSos often denotes a place, either with the 
 genitive of iri\ri, Bipa, BvpSiv, as in v. 328, iEsch. Sept. ad 
 Theb. 33, 58, or alone, as in Antig. 1184, Eurip. Androm. 
 1143. 
 
 1323. tSiv ivboBev, SO. TWOS. In the ensuing words of 
 Electra, says Hermann, " the double sense, of which the 
 tragic poets make frequent use, is worthy of notice. For 
 these words would of course be understood, by people be- 
 longing to the house, of the ashes of Orestes. But Electra 
 herself uses them in reference to Orestes alive," who could 
 neither be turned away, coming as he did, nor be a pleas- 
 ant inmate. 
 
 1326— 1330. TqTafifvoi. See v. 265, note. irap oihiv. 
 
 See Antig. 35, note. — — eyyev^s, inborn, innate,^ Schol. 
 eyyeycmjiievos, rather than a^ios Tov yevovs, his other interpre- 
 tation. — ■ — In the 1329th line, the emphasis is on wapa and 
 iv : since you are not aware that you are not by, hut in. 
 
 1332. The sense is. What you are doing (making ready 
 to do) would have heen in the'house before your persons. 
 
 1334. npoBeaBai twos evXdpetav, to put Caution before any 
 thing, to see to or provide for it. Comp. 6k<r6ai cmarpotfifiv 
 rrpo TOV BavovTos, to have a care for, take up the cause of, 
 (Ed. R. 134. 
 
 1337. It is veiy true to nature that Orestes should delay, 
 and be loth to begin the work (comp. 320), upon which the 
 divinity had sent him, and equally so that Electra, though 
 of all persons most anxious to have it accomplished, should 
 retard it stifr^rther by unnecessary questions. 
 ■ 183^. See v^802, note. 
 
 1340. vTrapJiufZommodum contingit, Brunck. virapxnv 
 occasionally denotes to be at hand ; ready for use ; useful; 
 but the common sense of happening suits the context. 
 
 1341. ^yyeiKas . . . as TeBvtjKora. See V. 676. 
 
NOTES. 143 
 
 1342. The sense is, Learn that you are a dead man 
 there, i. e. in the house, in the opinion of those who are in 
 the house. Join eTs avr/p. 
 
 1344. rckovfievav, when all is over. Comp. Antig. 1179. 
 
 1345. There is a play upon the word kuASj. to fi^ KoKas 
 refers to the wicked joy of Clytemnestra at the death of 
 Orestes, and to her security on that account. So-Herm. 
 
 1347. ouSe . . . (jiepa. No, I do not even bring it into my 
 mind, i. e. cannot form an idea, cannot conceive. 
 
 1354. See v. 1224. 
 
 1357. The hands are addressed, as having rescued Ores- 
 tes, and were, as Wunder observes, perhaps held by the 
 actor of Electra's part. 
 
 1359. ccfiaives, so. ovvelvai trc. 
 
 1364. Tovs . . . iv fU(Tig 'Koyovs. Xoyovs seems to denote 
 subjects of discourse, things to be told of. ev iic<T(f, in the 
 interim, i. e. since Orestes and the old man went away. 
 
 1365. KvieKovvrai, the reading of excellent MSS., I have 
 received into this edition, for kvkKoikti. The latter, if the 
 true reading, is neuter in sense. 
 
 1366. " Tavra ex abundante positum, nam accusativus a 
 verbo bei^ovaw pendens, jam v. 1364 prBBcessit : qui cum 
 sit masculini genei;is, ex regula syntactica debebat hie se- 
 qui Toin-ms . . . (ra(j)£ts. Sed ita Grseci ssepius neutris utun- 
 tur." Schaefer. 
 
 1372 - 1375. epyov here is to be supplied both as a predi- 
 cate of Eiij and with x^P""- The sense is, This, business or 
 duty cannot be one (a duty) of long discourses, i. e. cannot 
 need them ; but our duty is to go, &c. oibh. is here used 
 
 adverbially. ebt), statues. See Euhnken on Timffius in 
 
 voce, and Passow. Comp. also v. 635, and the note there. 
 
 1378. The neuter irpoiitTTTjv takes an accusative from its 
 connection with -karapfi x^p^V the sense being, I supplicated 
 
 thee standing before thee. • d<t>' &" ^xo^i^h mth whatever 
 
 offerings I had, with such poor offerings as I had it in my 
 
144 ELECTRA. 
 
 power to make. The prepositions aTro and ck are her( 
 used, because the offerings, so to speak, were that fron 
 which the prayers started, on which they were founded 
 
 Brunck gives the spirit of i^ otav ex"" ''y '^^"^ verbi 
 
 qucB sola haheo. 
 
 1384 - 1397. wpovcfierai, feeds or ravages onward, ad 
 
 varices. to ivakpurrov al/m r= to ai/ia ttjs 8v(Tept(rT0 
 
 ¥piSos. Kvves. Not Orestes and Pylades, but the Furies 
 
 comp. vv. 488-491. For kvvss, see Prometh. 803. 
 
 oveipov, the presentiment, which they expressed also in v 
 
 472. al<opo(ip,€vov, in suspense, unfuljilled. veaKovt] 
 
 Tov at/m — the reading of nearly all the authorities — hai 
 forced ancient and modem interpreters to render alfu 
 sword. But how the word can have that meaning, it ii 
 hard to see ; unless it be taken harshly in the sense of 
 cause of bloodshed, instrument of death. Herm., from i 
 Schol., elicits veoKovrjTov, which is probably a mere mistakt 
 of a scribe, and is explained by the Schol. as if it wert 
 veaK6i>riTov. This unused word Herma,nn derives from kov^ 
 occisio, a word only found in Hesychius ; and translate: 
 the clause, recens profuso sanguine manus conspersas ha 
 hens. As a parallel passage, he cites veotpovois iv aliiaa-i) 
 from Eurip. Electr. 1172. But aside from the fact that ni 
 such word exists as veoKovrjTos, it is a fatal objection to thii 
 emendation, that the Tkpfi.a (v. 1397) was not yet reached 
 and the blood was not yet on the hands of Orestes. Thi 
 second syllable of veaKSvrjTov is short. The only other ex 
 planation of this passage that I have seen is in the addends 
 to Lachmann de Choricis Systematis Trag. Grsec, whc 
 says, " Orestes csedem recens incitatam in manibus haben 
 dicitur." e^eu' fv x^po'h and similar phrases, often denott 
 to have on one's hands, to be engaged in ; but the sense 
 recens incitatam given to vcaKovijTov needs support. This 
 think the best view of the passage, although Schneidewin 
 in his edition published this year (1853), still adheres ti 
 tho old one. 
 
NOTES. 145 
 
 1398. It was natural for Electra to Enter with her broth- 
 er. By devising a good reason for bringing her out again, 
 the poet not only spares her an unbecoming situation, but 
 finds occasion for one of the most fearfully sublime scenes 
 in the ancient drama. He improves much on his prede- 
 cessor's parallel scene. Traia-ov, ei crBheis, SiirKijv, can hardly 
 be read without shuddering. 
 
 1399. T-eXoSo-i is probably future, with which tense avrUa 
 is chiefly. used. 
 
 1401. Xe^rjTa . . . Td(f)ov denote her6, kettle and funeral 
 feast, according to the Schol. and Brunck's translation. 
 But Orestes and his companion would hardly have stood 
 by Clytemnestra during that office. Ac/Stjs is the cinerary 
 urn, as in Choeph. 675 (686). 
 
 1405. TrXca, feminine plural nominative for jrXeai, from 
 jrXeo), Attic for irXeot (.?). So after Elms, on Med. 259, 
 
 Herm. Dind. ^oa ns, and so dpoeZ ns, v. 1410. She is 
 
 not in doubt whose are the cries, but dreads to name her 
 mother. Schneidewin. 
 
 1410. fiak' av, indeed, again. A very common formula 
 in repeating exclamations, as in v. 1416. 
 
 1412. The imperfect aKTelpero is used, because there is 
 a definite reference to the time of the murder. 
 
 1414. yevea raKaiva, not Clytemnestra and ^gisthus, but 
 ■ the PelopidsB in general, as the Chorus forebodes further 
 
 calamities, affecting the state also. Comp. vv. 504-515. 
 
 Ka6a)iepia. Schol. Kara TavTJjV TfjV rjixepav, and SO mod- 
 ern interpreters, (jidivei is rarely, if ever, transitive. Hernj. 
 changes it into (pBiveiv, with the construction fioipa eVri o-e 
 
 1415. SotX^v. Comp. Antig. 1307. 
 
 1416. ci yap Alyiada y' o/ioO. For y' the MSS. have 6', 
 which would require, as Hermann remarks, that the sen- 
 tence, if fully written out, should be d yap irMyfi a-oi etj;, 
 juyia-da re o/xoC. But the ellipsis is harsh, and the sense 
 
 13 
 
146 ELECTRA. 
 
 unsuitable ; for Clyteranestra was already smitten. Schnei- 
 dewin governs AlyiaBa by o/ioS, and gives the sense, Would 
 you were smitten together with Mgisthus ! But the poet 
 could only have said, Would that Mgisthus had been smit- 
 ten in company with thee ! i. e. would have used the nomi- 
 native. Either supply TrXi^yij eii/, Would that Mgisthus had 
 a Mow too ! or &jmi el'i;. Would that Mgisthus had " woe is 
 me " together with you ! which is the fiercest mockery of 
 the cries of the adulteress. 
 
 1417 - 1420. TcXoCo-t is intransitive, as in Choeph. 1008 
 
 (Blomf.), and in the example there given by Blomf. ■ 
 
 v7rfiaipov<n. Schol. eKxeovm, rather kXchtj Ikx^ovo-i. The 
 
 phrase is like eXeiu al/ia, CEd. E. 996. The closing 
 
 sentence is an imitation of Choeph. 873 (886), where a 
 servant says, t6v ffiira koIvciv tovs TcSmjKorai Xkya. 
 
 1422, 1423. These two lines were formerly given to 
 Electra, but belong without doubt to the Chorus, as Er- 
 furdt first remarked. For, 1. The Chorus ordinarily intro- 
 duces a new-comer, at the close of a lyric passage, with 
 Kcu iirjv. 2. The lines are too cool for Electra. 3. The 
 strophe and antistrophe, where the latter is entire, agree 
 not only in the same number of corresponding lines being 
 given to a speaker, but, in every instance except one, of 
 
 syllables also. oi! S' ?x<" Xeyftv, hut I cannot say how 
 
 the matter will result. The Chorus seems to think of the 
 final result ; whether Orestes would overcome Mgisthus or 
 perish, and Electra's eagerness interrupts the full expres- 
 sion of thought. Hermann, after Erfurdt's conjecture, puts 
 ■(/feyfii/ for Xkyeiv. ^'Kiireiv also has been proposed as an 
 emendation ; I cannot bear to look on them. I have put oi5 
 S' for ov8 , which the sense seems to demand. 
 
 1424. ttSs KupeT. A syllable is wanting. Reisig con- 
 jectured Kvpeire, but the answer of Orestes requires Kvpci. 
 Hermann, after Erfurdt, gives Kvpel Se. Here 6e refers to 
 something suppressed, such as, I see that their hands are 
 
NOTES. 147 
 
 dripping with hJood, tut — . Kvpet toS', a recent conjecture 
 of Kolster's, in the Philologus, Vol. V. No. 2, deserves 
 notice. 
 
 1423'. " Matricidam ne spectatores aversarentur, omnis 
 culpa perpetratse csedis in ApoUinem statim conferenda 
 erat." Schaef. It was admirably thought of by the poet 
 to make renewed mention here of the commission under 
 which Orestes acted ; and also, by the form of his answer, 
 to reveal a half-awakened doubt arising in his mind, wheth- 
 er he were acting rightly. Such doubts always arise in 
 new and agitating scenes, in the first moments of reflec- 
 tion, especially in cases where the form of the act is usually 
 
 connected with moral wrong. e/c^ojSoB . . . as. Comp. 
 
 V. 1309. 
 
 1429. eK TTpoSrjkov =z npoSfiKas, in plain sight. This ad- 
 verbial expression came perhaps from ek TrpoS^Xou rorrov, 
 and thus affords another instance of ck for Iv after verbs of 
 sight. 
 
 1430. oi3k aijfoppov, SC. iVf or da-ite. Comp. o^K els SKe- 
 6pov; ov)(l 6a(Ttrov ; CEd. E.. 430. 
 
 1433. KUT auTidvpav. Schol. recent. TropeidrjTe Kara tZv 
 oiTurOev Trjs Bipas /ifpSiv. dvndvpa ra oiriaBev ttjs Bvpas. 
 " Est dvfidvpov locus in Eedibus interior oppositus foribus." 
 Herm. 
 
 1434. Supply eS S^a-de. The order i , i>s, ev 6en€Voi ra 
 Trplv, vvv wSKlv rdSe cS 6^<r6e. 
 
 1435. " § vous verba esse Electrse strophe docet. Hoc 
 dicit illuc nunc quo cogitas propera." Herm. 
 
 1442. jEgisthus shows by his questions his ignorance of 
 the particulars of the news concerning Orestes ; and by her 
 replies Electra leads him to believe that the dead body of 
 Orestes has been brought. Yet in this she only indulges 
 her desire to delude him, without meaning to carry out a 
 plot based upon the dead body of Clytemnestra. For how 
 could such a plot have been rationally formed, when it was 
 
198 ELECTRA. 
 
 not known how much of the news jEgisthus had heard, and 
 whether the story about the ashes of Orestes had not reached 
 him. Orestes, however, from- within, hears the conversa- 
 tion, which may be supposed to have been carried'on in a 
 loud tone ; and is thus prepared to understand the delusion 
 of jEgisthus with regard to the dead body, and to act ac- 
 cordingly upon his first coming in. 
 
 1445. Comp. Antig. 441. Kplva, I ask. Comp. 
 
 Ajax 586. 
 
 1449. This is the first of a number 6f passages contain- 
 ing a double sense, in which divine justice, by the mouth 
 of Electra, scoifs at the miserable man, and shows to the 
 spectator most fearfully with what entire security and 
 raised hope he is rushing upon his destruction. The sense 
 conveyed to .figisthus was, For I should he a stranger to 
 a calamity of my friends that most intimately concerns me 
 (i. e. the death of Orestes). But Electra really meant. 
 For I should he a stranger to an event the most dear 
 among events that have occurred to me, i. e. the most wel- 
 come (i. e. the return of Orestes). For avii^pd, see v. 
 1230. tS>v ijjMv can be both my friends, and rav ifiav 
 avji^opav. 
 
 1451. There is a double sense here, if Kar^marav can de- 
 note both confecerunt {iter), they made for a kind hostess's 
 (house), and confecerunt (rem) contra. But the genitive in 
 the first sense is harsh, for Karqwaav jrpo^evov cannot well 
 be elliptically for k. 686v tls bopjov irpo^ivau. And whether 
 the genitive ever occurred with the verb in the other sense 
 may be doubtfed. Schneidewin seeks to remove the diffi- 
 culty by making tpCKris jrpo^evov absolute, the hostess heing 
 kind, they turned in, and the hostess heing a relative, they 
 despatched the matter. Dindorf says, " Karqma-av cum ge- 
 nitivo conjunctum idem est quod eVpvxoi'." <i>iKris then can 
 have both a serious and an ironical sense, and the verb can 
 denote ordinary or hostile meeting. 
 
NOTES. 149 
 
 1453. Wex, on Antig. 4, observes, that the natural order 
 
 here would be m Xo'yo) ij.6vov {fjyyeiKav) oKXa Kairibei^av. 
 These latter words being parenthetical, oi is repeated. Or 
 we may say, that Xdya answers to epym contained in the 
 sense of inebei^av. The plain sense conveyed to ^gisthus 
 here is, " No ! not reported him dead merely, but they have 
 even shown him as such." But there may be a second 
 sense in the words, viz. " No ! not only reported him dead, 
 but they have even shown him (sc. living) by something 
 more than words." ■ 
 
 1454, 1455. jrapeoTt, SO. 6 davav. iEgisthus aslts, Is the 
 dead present, so that I can clearly ascertain it 7 or irapenTi. 
 may be impersonal. Electra replies. He is present, and a 
 very undesirable sight ; by which he understood, undesira- 
 ble for her, while she meant that the reputed dead person 
 was at hand, a sight most unwelcome to JEgisthus. 
 
 1457. rdSe. The death of Orestes, as ^gisthus under- 
 stands it; but of Clytemnestra, as Electra means. 
 
 1458. dvaSciKvvmi ttuXos opav, " apertos ostendere fores 
 ad spectandum. Apte Erfurdtius adscripsit Aristoph. Nub. 
 304, iva /iwiTToSoKoj Soixos Iv TfXcTotr dyims auaSeiKwrai." 
 Herm. — Others deny that avaSeiKvivai niXas can be used 
 in this sense, and read TnJXmr. The sense then would be, 
 To show {the remains) at the portals, for all Mycence and 
 Argos to see. 
 
 1463. Ttpos ^lav (jiveiv <})phas, to get wisdom perforce. 
 Comp. CEd. Col. 804, and yevvav a-aim, Ajax 1077. 
 
 1464, 1465. Hermann thinks that Electra opened the 
 doors while saying these words, and meant that she had 
 done all she could to bring iEgisthus into the snare, while 
 
 he understood her as professing submission. trvp-cftipeiv, 
 
 to agree with, seek to please. tow Kpdaa-ocnv, i. e., as 
 
 she means it, Orestes and Pylades. 
 
 1466. I read ev here with Brunck, after Tyrwhitt's con- 
 jecture. For <i>Bai/os and vefieais, see Alcest. 1135, note, and 
 13* 
 
150 ELECTRA. 
 
 Philoctet. 776. The sense is, I see a sight, — the envy 
 of the Gods apart, — that has happily taken place ; hut if 
 divine displeasure ensues, I do not say so ; i. e. if the Gods 
 see elation of mind in my words, I recall them. Hermann 
 retains ov, the MS. reading, and translates the first clause 
 thus : Video corpus non sine deorum invidia prostratum ; 
 making ^ocr/io mean the body presented to view. 
 1470. ^aa-Ta^e, lift, sc. the veil. 
 
 1477. TrejTTcBx', i. e. TTtnTCiKa, as the context, and the rare- 
 ness of the elision of e in the third persons singular of verbs 
 (Alcest. 901, note), show. Gruppe, a German critic of the 
 Greek drama, has carelessly supposed the third person to 
 be here used. (Ariadne, p. 22.) For n-em-toKa hv, see v. 
 747, note. 
 
 1478. The sense is, Bost thou not perceive then all this 
 while that thou art holding discourse with the living as 
 with the dead ? i. e. with him alive whom thou supposedst 
 dead. The words are purposely dark and enigmatical. 
 
 1481. I have followed Hermann in making this line 
 interrogative. The sense is. And were you, good guesser 
 that you are (now), so long in an error ? 
 
 1483. K&v (TfUKpov, sc. trapes, or 3. The sense is, Though 
 it he hut little, let me say something, i. e. I wish to say 
 something, though it be little that you will allow me to 
 say. 
 
 1485. The thought is. For what gain can that one of 
 mortals, involved in crimes, who must at all events die, 
 derive from delay ? 
 
 1488. Ta4>€va-tv, sc. birds and dogs. Brunck aptly cites 
 Odys. iii. 259, where this is threatened as the punishment 
 of iEgisthus, if Menelaus should return and find him alive. 
 
 1491. x^jpo's fiw = x'"?"- Comp. Antig. 1339. Xo- 
 
 ■ytoi/ . . . d,y6)V, I. e. aycov ov vvv Iittiv {ayav) Xoyoji/, 
 
 1495. A strikmg thought, which both prevents a stage 
 death, and exhibits divine justice in a clear light. 
 
NOTES. 151 
 
 1496. Hermann denies that &v can be properly used here. 
 The MSS. omit &ii or iv, leaving the verse imperfect. 
 
 1500. The sense is, This art you hoast of was not your 
 father''s. If Agamemnon had been a good diviner, he 
 would have avoided the snare laid for him on his return 
 home. 
 
 1503. ? /ii7 <f>iy<o ere; The preceding words are to be 
 supplied rather than deSoiKas, which Brunck expresses in his 
 translation. What ! must I go before, lest I should escape 
 thee ? Hermann and others read ^ for ?. Orestes, in his 
 reply, scornfully imitates his language, Lest, as for that 
 matter (odv), you should die to your mind. 
 
 1505, 1506. T^vSe SUr/v, i. e. Kreivetv. — ^— For Tois iraa-iv 
 
 . . . SoTii, see K. § 332, R. 1 ; Cr. § 497. 
 
 1509, 1510. fit' e>.evdepias i^XSes, earnest out free. For 
 the phrase, see Mt. § 580. — — reKeatdev, brought to a close, 
 i. e. of troubles. 
 
METRES. 
 
 For 8' at the end of v. 1017, comp. Antig. 1031. For the 
 first syllable of e/SXaore, used short, v. 440, comp. v. 1081, 
 a lyric place, and Emsley on Medea 288. 
 
 77. Paroemiac. See v. 88. la> is a spondee, as in v. 
 150. 
 
 86-102=103-120. Anapaests. V. 1, a monome- 
 ter ; vv. 3, 4, paroemiacs of the spondaic sort ; the rest, 
 dimeters. In v. 87 all the MSS. have lao/ioipos af)p ; al- 
 though the a of aijp is properly long. Porson proposed to 
 read lcr6p,oip' drjp, which Dindorf follows. In two exam- 
 ples cited from poets posterior to Sophocles, arjp has a short 
 penultimate syllable. 
 
 121 - 136 = 137 - 152. 
 
 Verse 1. Glyconean. j. l_1j.^^_ (Polysche- 
 
 matist. See Munlc, Amer. transl., p. 136.) 
 
 2. = 1. 
 
 3. Glyconean with a trochaic close, or ecbasis, = 
 
 Antig. 833. ^_1j.^^ j_ _ 
 
 4. 5. Dactylic tetrameters. 
 
 6. Iamb, trimeter. 
 
 7. Antispast. and iamb, penthemim. 
 
METRES. 153 
 
 Herm. Epitome, § 220, or ithyphallicus with 
 
 a trisyllabic basis. ^^_lj.^_^ 
 
 (Munk, p. 70.) 
 8. Dactyl, trimeter. (.?) 
 9 - 12. Dactyl, tetrameters. 
 i3. Dactyl, tetrameter, with double basis. 
 
 14. Iamb, dimeter catalect. 
 
 15. do. penthemim. 
 
 In V. 3, " Monckius recte monuit, ^wlrifu secunda cor- 
 repta deberi metro dactylico, heroici versus leges sequen- 
 ti, pariterque "iruv in ictu ultimam productam habere." 
 
 Herm. Wunder in his Conspectus calls v. 13 a dactyl. 
 
 tetram. preceded by two trochcei sementi, i. e. trochees of 
 double time (see Herm. Elem. iii. § 13), but in his Electra 
 he calls it a dactyl, tetram. preceded by an anapaest, monom. 
 
 153 - 172. = 173 — 192. 
 
 Verse 1. Paroemiac (spondaic, as v. 88). 
 
 2. Iamb, tripody. 
 
 3. Two iamb, penthemim. 
 
 4. = 3. 
 
 5. Dactyl, hexameter. 
 
 6. Iamb, dimeter catalect. (dxeav, Beos, dissyllabic 
 
 by synizesis). 
 
 7. Two iambi with ecbasis, _ cb ^ -i , i _. (Ac- 
 
 cording to Wunder, iambus and antispast, 
 
 _ cfe, „ ± 2. _.) 
 
 8. = 7. 
 
 9. Dactyl, tetram. 
 
 10. Iamb. trim, catalect. 
 
 11. = 10. _ cb ^ c:i, ^ 
 
 12. = 3. 
 
 13 - 16. Dactyl, tetrameters. 
 
154 ELECTRA. 
 
 17. = 7. Two iambi with basis ; but according 
 
 to Wunder, antispast. and iambus, 
 ^ J. JL _, ^ -L 
 
 18. Antispast. and iamb, penthemim. or ithyphall. 
 with basis. See verse 7 of the preceding 
 strophe. 
 
 193-212 = 213-232. 
 
 Verses 1-7. Anapaestic. Vv. 1 and 3 parosmiacs ; the 
 rest dimeters. They belong to the spondaic 
 or free sort. See Herm. Elem. ii. § 32. 13. 
 8. Ithyphallicus. 
 
 9 - 12, 14. AnapEBStic, and like the foregoing. 
 
 V. 9 of the strophe closes with a hiatus, 
 
 / which is a license ; and the final vowel of 
 
 dficpa is shortened. V. 10 is a paroemiac ; 
 
 V. 12, a monometer. 
 
 13. Dochmius. _ ds cij i. 
 
 15. Iamb, dipody and creticus. 
 
 16. Troch. dimeter catalect. 
 
 17. Iamb, dimeter. ^ c:^ ^ c:^, ^ J- ^ — 
 , 18. = 17. 
 
 19. Dactyl, tetrameter. 
 
 20. Iamb, dimeter catalect. - cb » w -i- - 
 
 233 - 250. Epode of the foregoing. 
 Verses 1-3. Paroemiacs (spondaic). 
 
 4, 5. Dactyl, tetrameters. 
 
 6- 10. Anapaestic dimeters (spondaic). 
 
 11-12. Three dochmii. _ ^ -L ^ j. 
 Or threfe logaoed. dactyl, rows of the form, 
 
 X ^ ^ ^ 
 
 13 - 14. Two troch. penthemim. ' Comp. Alcest 
 217. 
 
METEES. 155 
 
 15. Glyconean. j | j. ^ ^ _ ^ _ 
 
 16. Iamb, penthemim. 
 
 17. = V. 7 of strophe 1. 
 472 - 487. = 488 - 503. 
 
 Verse 1. Choriamb, dimeter with a basis, = Antig. 945. 
 
 2. Glyconic. _x_1j..^^_^_ 
 
 (See Munk, p. 93. One syllable longer than 
 Antig. 336.) 
 
 3. Ithyphallicus. 
 
 4. Iamb, trimeter. 
 
 5. Iamb, penthemim., and iamb, tripody. 
 
 6. Iamb, tripody. l ^ ^ 
 
 7. Logaosdic dactylic (one dact, two troch.). 
 
 8. Troch. dimeter catalect. 
 
 9. Iamb, dimeter hypercatalect. 
 
 _^ ^__jLw 
 
 10. Dochmius. _ j. J. ^ J. 
 
 11, 12. = 9, 10. 
 
 13. Logaoed. dactyl, with anacrusis (one dactyl, two 
 trochees) followed by a creticus and a tro- 
 chee. So Wunder. 
 
 --i-- ^\^^-±- 
 
 Such a close as±„_„|j.^_|j.„, 
 
 where one syllable is dropped off in each 
 
 following trochaic clause, has great strength 
 
 in it. (For the Glyconic part, comp. Munk, 
 
 p. 91.) 
 
 504-515. Epode of the foregoing. Vv. 4 and 10, cre- 
 
 tici. All the rest iambi ischiorrhogici, according to Herm. 
 
 _ s^ - J. _ ± ; but verses composed of an iambus and an 
 
 antispast, according to Wunder. r crs | - J. 1 =; 
 
 V. 515, with the new reading of this edition, has the 
 form, ^w-!-^w — '- -• 
 
156 ELECTKA. 
 
 824 - 836 = 837 - 848. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dipody and choriam. dimeter. 
 
 2. Choriamb, dimeter hypercatalect., or with a 
 
 logacEd. ending. And so of the next line. 
 Comp. Munk, p; 132. 
 
 3. Choriamb, monometer hypercatalect. with ana- 
 
 crusis. _ I J. ^ ^ 
 
 4. lonicus a minore. .^ „ i. _L 
 
 5. 6. = 3, with a long syllable, pronounced apart, 
 
 between them. 
 
 7. = 4. 
 
 8. Choriamb, dimeter with anacrusis. 
 
 9, 10. = 8, without anacrusis. 
 11. Choriamb, with a closing trochee. 
 
 According to Wunder and Schneidewin, vv. 1,2 make 
 one verse, and so vv. 8-11. 
 
 849 -859:= 860 -870. 
 
 Verse 1. Cretic and troch. penthemim. (the middle syl- 
 lable of SeiXam SeiKalav being shortened). (?) 
 
 So Herm. Wunder. 
 2-4. (Spondaic) anapsestic : two dimeters and a 
 parcemiac. 
 
 5. Dochmius. _ ci: ^ o i. 
 
 6. Cretic dimeter. _ ^ _ J ^ 
 
 (The last syllable is anceps.) 
 
 7. Dochmius. 
 
 8. Iambus. (?) 
 
 9. lambelegus, = Alcest. 876, 893 (iambic and 
 
 dactylic penthemim. 
 
 10. Logaced. dactyl, (one dact, two troch.). 
 
METEES. 157 
 
 1058-1069 = 1070-1081. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, penthemim. and Anacreontic verse, = 
 Antig. 838, Prometh. 397. 
 
 2, 3. Anacreontic (two in each line). In v. 3 an 
 anapsest for the second iambus of the closing 
 anacreontic. 
 
 4, 5. Glyconean. 
 
 6. Pherecratean. 
 
 7, 8. Anacreontic, as vv. 2, 3, but with an ana- 
 
 crusis, commencing v. 7. 
 Vv. 1 — 3, 7, 8 are perhaps more satisfactorily reduced 
 into choriambic rows, in which iambic dipodies and cho- 
 riambuses alternate, closed by a logaoedic dactylic clause 
 of two dactyls, two trochees. Comp. the metres, Prometh. 
 397 - 424, my ed. Munk, again, p. 320, reduces the lines 
 to a logaoed. dactyl, form. 
 
 1082-1089= 1090-1097. 
 Verse 1. Pherecratean. 
 
 2. Troch. trimeter catalect. 
 
 3. Choriamb, and trochaic ecbasis, = v. 836. 
 
 4. Iamb, dipody, creticus, ithyphallicus, = Alcest. 
 
 112, 113 (or cretic dimeter with anacrusis 
 and ithyphal. So Wunder.) 
 
 5. Iamb, tetrameter. 
 
 6. Two iamb, penthemim. (or iamb, dipody and 
 
 ithyphallicus). 
 
 1160- 1162. Herm. says, that & Sepias olierpSv. & beivo- 
 raras is an anapsestic dimeter, interrupted by the interjec- 
 tions. He gives o'l /xot for o'l /lot fufi. 
 
 1232 - 1252 = 1253 - 1272. 
 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dipody. 
 
 2, 3. Three dochmii. * 
 
 4,5. Iamb, trimeters. " ■'••--'- 
 
 14 
 
158 ELECTKA. 
 
 6. „ J. ^. 
 
 7. = 4. 
 
 8. 9. Two iambi ischiorrhogici. (?) 
 
 10. Dochmiac dimeter. 
 
 11. Iamb, dimeter catalect. and dochm. hypercata- 
 
 lect. ^ -L ^ \ -^ ± J. ^ J. - 
 
 12. 13, Iamb, trimeters. 
 
 14. Iamb, tripody. ^ cz 
 
 15. Dochm. dimeter. 
 
 16. Cretic trimeter. i ^ c; 
 
 
 (Or three pseones primi, according to Herm.) 
 
 17. Dochm. _!. cb i „ -i 
 
 18, 19. Two iamb, trimeters. 
 
 Verse 11 can also be divided into an iamb, tripody, ere- 
 ticus, and two trochees. 
 
 1273- 1287. Epode of the foregoing. 
 Verse 1. Iamb, dipody and dochmius. 
 
 2. Dochm. and iamb, dimeter catalectic. 
 
 3. Iamb, dimeter. _c~;„£:s L ^_ 
 
 4. 5. Iamb, trimeters catalectic. 
 
 6. do. trimeter. 
 
 7, 8. Two bacchii. 
 
 9 - 14. As these lines are fornid in the text they 
 
 are, 
 9. Troch. pentapody, preceded by a creticus. 
 
 10. do. dipody. 
 
 11, 12. Iamb, trimeters catalectic. 
 
 13. Troch. dimeter. 
 
 14. do. pentapody. 
 
 But as they are corrupt, it is hardly worth while to at- 
 tempt to reduce them to measure. See a different division 
 of them in Hermann's ed, 
 
METEES. 159 . 
 
 eya> ou8' form a crasis. 
 
 1384- 1390 = 1391 - 1397. 
 
 Verse 1. Cretic dimeter. c^ „ _ en; ^ _ 
 
 2. Dochm. dimeter. 
 
 3. Iamb, trimeter. 
 
 4. = 2. 
 
 5. Dochmius. 
 
 6. Iamb, dimeter. 
 
 7. do. trimeter. 
 
 1398 - 1421 = 1422 - 1441. 
 
 Verses 1-6. Iamb, trimeters. 
 
 7. Perhaps Iambic tripody (wanting in the anti- 
 strophe) ; or it may be a dochmius, for which 
 Herm takes it. 
 
 8. 9. Iamb, trimeters. 
 
 10. = v. 1085; Alcest. 112, 113. Cretic dimeter 
 
 with anacrusis and ithyphallicus. 
 11- 14. Iamb, trimeters. 
 
 15. Logacsd. dactyl, (two dact., three troch.) 
 
 16. do. do. (two dact. troch. penthem.). 
 
 17. 18. Iamb, trimeters. 
 
 19. Cretic tetrameter with anacrusis. 
 
 20. Iamb, trimeter. 
 
 21. Antispast. and iamb, penthem. or ithyphal. with 
 
 basis, = V. 7 of the first strophe in the 
 drama, or, ending v. 20 at KTavSvrap, and 
 opova-ji, we have iamb, tetrameter catalect. 
 and ithyphallicus. 
 
 1508 - 1510. AnapEest. dimeters. 
 
 THE END.