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

NOTES. 105
591, -aVro, i. e., eyw avmog.
593, —Ev. The 2d aorist of 5C-9/ is often so used as to
be rendered by the present of the substantive verb.
Thus here,% "How, pray, is a royal name," etc.
596.-varut, rit every body.
598. —ira 3' C'vt, is situated here, i. e., in me.
599.-KECVa. That is, Those troubles which kings hIave.
600. — mind (thus) r'easoning well wozuld nzot bc evil.
dislposed (toward thee).
602. —rAbrlv governs TrrTJ3e rlv r/v/ understood. Creon
declares he was no lover of such a rebellious design,
(i. e., he never had planned such,) nor would he endure
such a plan, though another were the actor.
603. —cXXoov, accusative, governed by Es; For a preoof of
these assertions. --- rovro Eiv is in opposition to TOVT
&dX' in line 605, and may be here freely rendered,
In the first place. Of course crr71 is understood,
and the sentence llvUSh' &vW - - toL, is the explanation of ogSOre. So with 7OrT'm aXX' afterwards E-TL is
understood, and the sentence E'av,y cAaj3;dv is
the explanation of'Tor'. - --— ro' dXX' may be rendered, In, the second place.
605.-ac"v Xufi3Wr, If yfoufind.
606.-i-co'v, lit coim2M70t.
607.- rjyos originally signifies a small stone; cnd as such
were nsed in balloting, the word is naturally used for
the " vote," of which the vljkos was the symbol.
GOS.-X~OpL, Behinicd?zJ bac,; literally " apart." -- aTL3 pros. imperative 2d person silg. contracted of
609. -1tM'rrv, Recklessly. Coimpare in Scripture, Isaiah v.
20, with lines 609, 610.
51 1.-'cov — Ka[, like the Latin reque ac, in Eng. " equal
with." Before Tov fleorov, icKaAEi./ is to be repeated,