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

NOTES. 87
183.- Ev3'. See note on line 27.-'r'- av-aZ' under
stood.
184.-J-Krav 7rapa jO&pu/ov. Some would emend this read
ing with Brunck thus, &VrTv vrapafnutov. I would
rather follow those who retain the old reading and
translate it, By the altar"'s beach. The altar is a refuge to the Thebans, as the beach to a shipwrecked
mariner.
187.-The Prean was a solemnly-chanted prayer for deliverance. (See line 5.) The tones of the Pean are
here interlmingled (0'/avXos) with the groans of the
sufferers.- -- o'uavXos is from o/os (united), and avXAo,
(Ca Jute).
158. — 9 -Va)rTEp hLdo, i. e.,'Ahava, before addressed. See
line 159.
189. — Evra is the accusative from E&v+O, and agrees with
aXKav. Help is personified and styled " fair-eyed," as
being greatly desired.
193. -Turzq onc a backwa'rd cougrse. KaTa is understood
before the accus. 3parl',uyLa, and 3os before the infinitive
vamo-aL.
194. —rarpag ar7rovpov, From the bouncdaries of mny land.
1952 — 3adXawov'Ajckt7rptlas, i. e., the sea. See Classical
Dictionary for " Amphitrite.'
197.-KXiv'8va, Boisterous sea. The Black Sea is referred
to; Thrace bounded it on the southwest.
198. — rXEL, At its close.
200 — TOv for TOTrov, referring to "Apead J1aXEpov. Line 190.
io-rparrav, Doric for ao-rpa7rrv.
201.-Kpcar- veovw, Wielding the polwer.
203.-Av'KEJ' ava:. Apollo (say some) is called the Lycian
king, because worshipped with peculiar honours in Lycia.
206. —rpoOrra3'rTa, from irpoI-TrrrTt.
208.-a'IyXas, Splendours; poetically for " darts."