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

94 NOTES.
346. —'rSt yp 0oKJv, For now thou appearing; idiomatic for " know that thou appearest."
347.-oo-ov, As mnuch as (thou couldst).
348. —l 8' E'ryXaves /3Xe7rwO, And if thou hadst hadppened
to have thy sight.
350. —aXakEs; a sarcastic question or exclamation.
351. — rep, by attraction in the same case as KTpVy/Mart.
355.-7rov, an enclitic, Perhaps., —-- cEVc-at, To fly,
i. e., from punishment for this shameless speech.
356. —radX1es yap L rxvov'pe o. A noble saying —or I
have truth (as mny) fortress.
359.-7roiov Xoyov, What speech (did I command you
to utter)?
360. —" Did yozu not utnderstand mne at first, or do you
tenz2pt mne to sl2eak (vzore at large)?" I have retained
the old reading XIyetv, instead of altering it (with
Brunclk) to Xyowv.
361. —(Edipus answers the former question of Tiresias.
Tiresias says, " Did you not understand me at first?"
UEdipus replies, " I did not.understand you so that I
can say that the remark was perfectly intelligible."
362. —od refers to fovea, and is governed by KVpEiV. KVpELV
governs the genitive often, probably because its original signification is " to happen," and therefore a /xera
is required with the genitive, which utEr&a at length
was dropped.
363.-ovr Xatpwv, sarcastically.
365.-o&Tov ye Xp-jessL (SpIoeak) as much as you zwish. The
adverb /Mt7v is undoubtedly the accusative of TE1ar,
(a failure,) with its KaTa understood.
366. —XeXrlSevat ouXkovrra. For the construction of Xavagdvo and a participle, see the Grammars. --- tkrTrOLS,
Nearest relatives. The plural is here used for the singular, the mother of (Edipus being alone meant. We