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Notes on Sophocles' Electra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. D. Fitton Brown
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor

Extract

Commentators from the Old Scholiast onward extract from these two clauses the one meaning that the pedagogue will not be recognized. They complain that a man's hair going white does not suffice to disguise him, and offer some unconvincing reinterpretations and emendations of The change of mood and tense is also odd; at O.C. 450 ff. which Jebb quotes in support, there is a change of meaning and intensity to justify it.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1956

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References

page 38 note 1 So also Gregor, D. B. (C.R. lxiv [1950], 87).Google Scholar

page 39 note 1 To explain E. Tro. 397–9, I am inclined to postulate a variant of this construction, with imperfect in protasis as well as apodosis. ‘If the Greeks were now at home, the expectation of Hector and Paris would be glory obscured.’