[401] Electra, 303-16.
[402] For this and other metrical terms which follow see [Chapter VI].
[403] There are no less than thirty iambic lines thus divided. The name for such division is ἀντιλαβή.
[404] Phil. vv. 287-92.
[405] O.C. 1697, translated by Jebb: “Ah, so care past can seem lost joy!”
[406] Electra, 1165 sq.
[407] Dr. J. W. Mackail (Lectures on Greek Poetry, p. 150 sq.) has described these lines with brilliant aptness. “The language is so simple, so apparently unconscious and artless, that its overwhelming effect makes one gasp: it is like hearing human language uttered, and raised to a new and incredible power, by the lips of some one more than human.”
[408] O.C. 607 sqq. The wonderful version of these first few fines is by Professor Gilbert Murray.
[409] Ajax, 815 sqq.
[410] O.C. 1586 sqq.