The OEdipus tyrannus of Sophocles; with English notes ... By Howard Crosby ...

98 NOTES.
"like thy children," because it will show thee that
they and thyself are children of the same parent.
429. —These words of CEdipus are spoken with great vehemence. The interrogations are not interrogations of
inquiry, but of assertion and command.
433. —yap, (I called thee), because.
434. —XoX —, Slowly, for oval/g, By no mneans. So in
English we say, " I wculd be rather slow in assisting
a villain," where we mean, " I would not at all assist
a villain."
438. — a' PEpa So-vcrt Ore, This day will beget thee and
destroy thee, i. e., This day will make manifest thine
origin, and by so doing begin thy ruin.
440.-Said in derision, alluding to the skill of (Edipus in
solving the Sphynx's riddle.
441.-E- p e-t,, future, Thou shalt find (if thou searchest).
442. —-r, that is, the discovery of the Sphynx's meaning; for had CEdipus not discovered this, he would
not have brought these disasters upon himself; for
he would not then have become an inl-abitant of
Thebes.
443.- -or' oL tcEL, I don't care (for this destruction thoz
speakest of).
444.-KotLtE, Guide away.
446. —hv3cL', first aorist pass. part. of crv'(w. It i; here
opposed to -rapv.
448. —ov yap &r,V' o'Zrov, For it is not possible that; literally, " For there is not where," that is, There is not
an opportunity, where etc.
449.-TO} avSpa To0rovT accusative absolute, to be thus ex
plained, "I tell thee that this man, whom etc. etc. —he
(I say) is here." The accusative would demand the infi
nitive Ea ivt Ea, but as a long parenthesis had inter.
vened, the subject is repeated in the nominative. which