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

NOTES. 85
15Q.-rri roXvyjJ~Scrcv HCvJ~vcfyvo Xas c 3ay ~6aa; Hfast
thozl come from, golden. ~ zDelp-2,i to ilzlustrious Thzebes?
Delphi is called golden from the quantity of valuable
offerings there deposited. For IHIvS.3vos, see note on
line 70. The Chorus know an oracle has arrived, but
do not know its purport. Hence their question, Tls
7rore K.iz.X. The oracle is called Jove's, because even
Apollo's prophetic power was said to be derived from
Jove.
l53.- Ecl'eTaat, perf. pass. of'KTlv, I a anxious; or
literally, I acn on the st'etcl.-o —-- 3pav for wrEp[o/3ov.
So in English we use "fearful" in both senses, subjective and objective, as "I am ft[aqful of that monster," and "I shrink from that fea2ful monster."
154. —Apollo was called'I'ico from io/tat (to heal), AXLoS from1 A~Xos (the island), and Halcsv from iravw
(to calm, i. c., diseases).
i55.-Ud/-'os, r l understood with ud/cL frol, ReveriSng
thirTe cqafairs. - vfov, adverbially, 2Now.
1 56.-rrdXJ, fe.reafte r.
158.-The oracular response is styled the "child of Hope,"
because it is witlh heope of its favorable character that
the oracle is sought.
159.-KoEKXCoo&V agrees with /Iot in line 163.
161, 162.- "Aprepuv and (lPot3ov with their adjectives are
in the accusative, because'Aacva is the only deity as
yet directly addressed. Understand, therefore, Trv
o-mv with "ApTrEuv, thus, nvokinTg thee, 0 Zlin'erva, etc.
etc., ccand thy eartth-encircling- sister Diaczca, etc. etc.,
and the fca-dclcrting A2)polo. Then 7rpoa'vrTEr appears in the 2d person plural, all three being addressed.
161. —-EctXEa is supposed by some to be a nominative for
CEKXELa, (as Diana was called by the Boeotians). I