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

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"I shall be glad," or any other apodosis; the ex
pression being merely a wish or prayer,. viz., " Give
(grant) I may be happy."
864.-[-oipa. This sentence, which literally is, "Would
that the lot might be to me bearing a reverential
sanctity," may more freely be rendered, " Would that
mine were the lot to bear," etc. This is preferable to
rendering /uopa by "good fortune," as some do.
365. —,rpKELvraL, simply "Are."-. v refers to XAyoWv Ep.
y(OV TE.
867.-Wyv here refers to vOlet.
868.-vvL is here for''VroV, (laws). We see vtv thus used
for avra in the Electra, line 624, and for aVTroV in
Pind. Nem. 4, 5.
870. -X ah, Doric for XA'Sq.
873. — rpavvov seems to have a worse meaning than "monarch." It means " tyrant," as we use the term.
874.-Insolence, if it befoolishlyyfilled with zanzy things,
which aqre neither ajppropriate nor 6eneficial, havizng
nozunted thle topmost preci2pice, rushes to ruin, where
it m2cay not use a zuseful foot (i. e., whence it may not
extricate itself).
879. —7rawtxo-!a, Thie endeavour, i. e., to find out the murderer of Laius. The Chorus seems to think Jocasta
wished to stop inquiry and therefore inveighs against
her, though in an indirect way.
883. —mrwpowrTa, neut. plur. of vrreporro, used adverbially.
887. —'XoLro K.T.X., 11/lay mnisfortune seize him.
888. —Xapv is called a preposition. It is really the unaltered accus. of Xaopt, and governed by 7rpos, which
is sometimes expressed, as for instance Soph. Antig.
line 30, 7rp3 X.pav [fopas, "For the sahe of (i. e., love
of) prey."
889. -Ed'. / goes with Kepsavw and Eprpat, but is