‘How vain then, O my son,
How vain was my delight in thy proud fame,
While I supposed thee living! The fell Fury
From her dark shroud beguiled me with sweet lies.’
KING OEDIPUS.
[P. 86, l. 36.] That stern songstress. The Sphinx. See also [‘minstrel hound.’]
[P. 96, l. 402.] Will hunt | Pollution forth. The party cry of ‘driving out the pollution’ was raised against the Alcmaeonidae and other families in Athens, who were supposed to lie under a traditional curse.
[P. 99. l. 525.] Who durst declare it. Του προς δ’ εφανθη. Though the emphatic order of words is unusual, this seems more forcible than the var. τουπος δ’ εφανθη.
[P. 102, l. 625.] [CR. You’ll ne’er relent nor listen to my plea.] A line has here been lost in the original.
[P. 113, l. 1025.] Your purchase or your child? Oedipus is not to be supposed to have weighed the import of the Corinthian shepherd’s words, ‘Nor I nor he,’ &c., supra.
[P. 128. l. 1526.] His envied fortune mounted beaming. Reading εν ζηλω πολιτων (with 2 MSS) and επιφλεγων from my conjecture.
ELECTRA.
[P. 131, l. 6.] The wolf-slaying God. Apollo Lyceius, from Lycos, a wolf.