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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Theseus, on entering, immediately demands of the Chorus an explanation of the 
in the house and of the lack of proper welcome for the returning master. His first thought (794) is that something may have happened to the aged Pittheus. No, say the Chorus, the 
(that which has happened) has nothing to do with the old: it is the young whose death causes pain (798). Naturally, Theseus now leaps to the conclusion that it is his children whose ‘life is pillaged’ (799): no, he is told, it is his wife.
1 Or, perhaps, ‘indescribable’: see below.
2 Euripides Hippolytos (Oxford, 1964), ad loc.Google Scholar
3 Op. cit., p.322: ‘the result is not such as to convince me that the text is genuine.’
4 For a similar ‘Sperrung’ of 
from its noun by a predicative adjective cf., e.g., Aeschylus Persae 438: 
rija5' Er' exOlury rtixn. For hyperbaton in general see K-G.II,ş607.1 and Fraenkel on Agamemnon 1448ff.
5 Cf. the disruption of the similarly emotionally charged 840–1: 
6 JHS 85 (1965), 169.
7 For 
= ‘atone for’ Cf. Euripides Or. 510–11: 
Sophocles OT 100–1: 
8 Cf. 801, 803, and, similarly, Hippolytus at 905–6 and 909–15.
9 I wish to thank my colleague Mr. G.G. Betts for helpful criticism of this paper.