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

NOTES. 83
87, 88. — Good news. For I declare that eten reg'arding
dificult circumstances'if they find a rigAt issze, all
would be well. This sentence is obscure purposely
as Creon did not wish to disclose the whole truth at
once.
90 -— r YE vvv XvSy, With your words just utte~red.
(Edipus says that Creon's words were so obscure, they
neither encouraged nor discouraged him.
97. —~1tacrua, Polluted person; the abstract for the concrete.
101.0 L- aula XELCUaov, accusative absolute. The accusative
absolute has a pronominal subject generally. Preceded
by as, however, a substantive subject is common in
the Attic writers.
105.-E-e(rE8V yE. The -yE renders Ec1-EG$ov emphatic as
antithetical to a'ov'xv.
108.-7.wo- 7yrs; Where in the wold?
110. —The sozught is seized, but the neg'lected escapes; a
metaphor taken from the chase.
1 14. —wEhpops is the term used for a consulter of an oracle;
literally, " a spectator."
l15. —J7rerkar&/, used in the middle sense, le vwent.
1 6.-vj7rrpacrKrop, Companion.
117.-Xvpro-ar' al,, Migfht have used, as testimony.
I 19.V-o8Ev EX;', Was not able.
120. —r Oroiov, not:What, but What lind of a circumstance is this he remembers.
1'21.-a-pXyv /paXEaav iXr$6os, A small beginning of hop2e,
i. e., a small beginning which shall excite hope of
more.
122.-ofh!uz 5piu/, Not with one strength, i. e., not with
the strength of one. There were many robbers, not a
single man. Notice here how true to nature is the
exaggeration of this cowardly attendant, who magnifies
the solitary (Edipus to a band of robbers.