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

NOTES. 117
916. —o83 ra,<aLvwa 0ro r aXat. EKmaLopEr-aL. OGdipus could
not reconcile the old oracular declaration of Apollo,
viz., That the son of Laius should slay his father)
with the later declaration of Tiresias, that he ((Edipus) collmitted the murder.
91 7. —-o-rL tro X'7yovroS, Iie is the dupe of cany speaer.
918. —oJC8v s wXov =o0tr, I do zno good; more literally,
"I do nothing to advantage." Some noun like Xpqta
is to be supplied with rrAXov.
919.-A;EKd "AvroXXov. See note on line 203.
923. —The meaning is, " We are like those at sea who find
that their pilot is frightened."
924.-Here enters a messenger from Corinth, about to
announce the death of Polybus, and the election of,Oidipus in his stead as king. This messenger happens
to be the same man who had brought up the infant
(Edipus, and had given hil lto Polybus.
926.-e7rov sC. Ec'rL referring to (dipus himself, inferred
from aVrOv.
927. —cr-Eyagt $Lo/maTa of line 925. The omissions of the
substantive verb will be here noticed.
92S.- -prurp c.-r.X. This is purposely introduced to briag
vividly before the minds of the audience the fact of
the incest, the speaker of course not being supposed to
know aught of that.
930. —7avrEXr'j. There is likewise an ambiguity in this
word. The messenger means "complete wife," as
having borne children to (cldipus, but the audience
will take the word in the sense of " lawful;" knowing
she is not such lawful wife.
931.-o-v'. Supply k/3,los y Evoo. — a- co EL, Thouo art?ortihy (of bei2ng t hcppy).
935. —ravra, i. e., the aya3ta of the previous line. —--
rti'os. Supply O0'7ov.