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

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740.-,- t m/ro' / poCra, -Do zot as/c m72e yet. OEdipus hopes
that his surmises may be wrong-that he may have
made too hasty a conclusion that the murder he committed was the murder of Laius, and therefore asks for
further particulars, before he condemns himself.,rJ-tv, Al2Fear'ance oJ bocly.
742. —Xvoa'cOv "apTL XcEvKav&e Kapa, literally, Blooming ias
to his clately-whitented head.
745. — rpo/3aXwov oVrK eE'vat. Translate as if the. verbs
interchanged their words; thus. I" To have unwittingly
exposed," etc.
747.-XAEiro)v like a&X3i~, for what is true sees, as what is
false is blind.
750.-Pact%, With a small combplany.
757. —ravvv, formed from -ca and vvv, and requiring a
preposition to be supplied, becomes, as here, simply an
adverb, "now. "
761.-J-ypo5i', that is, fTl aypoiv.
764.-7~o-c Kal IVE(oW4 Xdptv, Even a ggreater' faCvour' than
this.
766. —vaic c-rtv, he is present, i. e., he is near enough to be
brought before you soon. --- — crae, Dost thozu desire.
767. —8E3,LK' i.UavrTv simply, Ifear.
769. —i'Erat, governed by o 8oviXo understood.
770. —vo'6pws exovra, as if "vor6opa ov7-a.
771. —rTEpyl-9S. Supply -rov 4ta9lv from the preceding
sentence. The hopes (fCrd3wo) of CEdipus had refer
ence to the information, that the servant (who had
been sent for) would bring. -- - Ei -ro-ovTrov EXr/t&w
To suc a degr'ee of expectatio,..
776 —EKE, Thzee, in Corinth. - -— r'x, Event. This refers to the suspicions against his birth. See what
follows.
778. —orwov8s, Anxiety.