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

NOTES. 137
1453, -43&'c.v, 3 pers. dual. 2 aor. middle. -- i'pLov,
Propeir, as if from KVpEo.
1454.-1ed Ec erO&wv, According to their will. - &rWXXVTqv
as far as their design and belief went.
1455. —'c is accus. after rerpcoal.
1458.-These words show the stoicism of despair. —---
" Then let my sorrow come, be what it may;" or more
literally, ":But let my fate lead on, whithersoever it
may."
i463. —atv, 1or whom. Xp- Xop Apart. - avEv rov'
avSpos is explanatory of Xopts. - For Tov8' avSpo,,
see line 534, etc. -~ Lines 1463 1464, and 1465 are
parenthetical. As the parenthesis is long, the racv of
line 1462 is repeated in line 1466.
1466. —tXE(o-9aL is infinitive for imperative, i. e., an infinitive governed by a suppressed indicative, which is
equal to a simple imperative softened. - ~ XepoTv,
With (my) hands.
1467.-Supply aVT7JOv after ~avi~at.
1472. —qXotv 8aKpv)ppoo-vroLv is neuter, equivalent to the
feminine.9vyarTEpotv SaKxpvpoo'ratv. The use of the
neuter for the feminine in expressions of endearment
is seen in the Latin neuter proper nouns, diminutives of female names, and in our own " dear thing."
Some, however, consider these words as masculine
Thus the Scholiast, who. calls it an Atticism, and re
fers the use of Te XieoPE to the same principle.
1474. —rTa XTraT' &KyOvoLv EoLV, The dclarest of ny off
sporing. The use of the neuter is common.
1478. —-ro-e A-ds 03ovi. Compare Acts xix. 23.
1481.-v -v =' V.
1483. —,rporvo(ryav = elpyaoravro.