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

84 NOTES.
125. —v39Ev3', Iizencen; i. e'., from this city (Thebes). - -— s
Tr0E TOSl, To this pitch oj' audacity. CEdipus here
hints at Creon himself, who might have slain Laius
to obtain the crown, being apparently the next
claimant.
130. —7ro0LKXo il, cliddle-siizging. - ra wrpo 7roro-l, Things
present. -- Taavri, Things absent, i. e., matters
touching the death of Laius.
134. — 7rtrTpo0iv, Car'e.
136. —TrtopoUvra K.T.X. The land needed avenging for the
death of its king, and the god (Apollo) needed avenging, because the death of Laius was an insult to himn
Laius having been on his road to Apollo's shrine when
lie met his death.
137. —rJv 7rorTEpW C(XLov; the citizens in general.
138. — arocrKE83, an Attic form of the future a&roe1-Kc3c-tW.
143. —acrracre, as &vo —rao-'E, Arise.
144.-Ka8,uov Xaov, elegantly for "the inhabitants of
Thebes." See note on line I.
145.-J - rav Eo0VU 8procvro), For I shallG Cdo all in n7zy
power.
146.-The &vv rE3 3e, By God's hel2p, belongs only to
the Ej3VXe7s, not to the,-EwTTOrKOrTES. Comp. Eur. iled.
625. 798. CEdipus here leaves the stage for the time.
147.-o-T7jrEo-rra. The form in ecr3a is common with thle
poets.
148.-a 2CyykXraL, for gayyzy&klX. See Soph. Elec. 9N3.
150. —The ical introdcles not a distinct but an explanatory
epithet, viz., our' saviour as a stopyer of the pl2aguze.
151. —The Clhorus is composed of Theban elders assembled
by order of (Edipus. See line 144.
a3vErjs —ras-E-' ag, Doric forms for'8VE7'1r3-T7-S'/q. The tragic writers use the
Doric dialect in the Chorus.