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

NOTES. 107
what of a future signification is to be here applied to
it, o'ifovs, as the loftier term, is used towards (Eldi
pus, and -crras, as the inferior, to Creon.
640.-8vov &7ro<p1vas KaKOLv, Selecting fromn two evils.
643. —TOpO, fao-j, a poetical expression for /E. See
Eurip. Alcest. 647. It is governed by rlu understood.
644.-,-vatCv, Enjoy (life). --- o. is governed as To3~oSv
o-rja in line 643.
645. —iracrn, 2 pers. sing. pres. ind. mid. --— v is governed by ryepb understood. ---- is accus. before
8pav, and TavrTa is understood after it. Thus the full
sentence would be, 8E3paua TL Tovroiu, rrep2L cv cra.tma
/JE 8pav TaVTa.
647.-Tdv8E opKov 3EWV, This oath of the gods, i. e., witnessed by them.
648. —iE and TovoE- are governed (like TOv3' opKov) by
aL8e(rSEs, or perhaps more properly we should say,
they all are governed by cKara understood, a38Eo'0Es
signifying a state of mind, and therefore not governing
any thing.- -ov'co-r8 refers to the Chorus.
652.-Reverence this one who before was no child, and is
now mighty in his oath.
655. —pcapE TC jys, Tell mne what thozu sayest, i. e., what
thou meanest.
656. —vaye, Who is tnder' oath (innocent).
658.-E'crnro 7-vrjv, Ble aware (that thou art) seeking.
660.-Some suoh word as laprTpoil is to be supplied before Tol5 3SEOV vpoptlo7'AXLov.
663o. -or7t rvarov oXot.uv. The full sentence would be,
KaS3' O' T, irTi- -i/arov. --- -Xoiav Doric for oXolkev.
665. —pot used as p/ov, and 8va-pr/po as vo-/o'pov.
667.-Kail Ta'&e, like the usual phrase Ka&i Tarra, And that
too, i. ce., particularly so.