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The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr
The tragedies of Sophocles in Engl prose The Oxford tr Author:Sophocles Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ELECTRA'. Oresres, in company with his .tutor and Pylades, comes to Argos, and, having deceived jEgisthus and Clytemnestra with the report that he had been ki... more »lled by falling from his chariot in the Olympic games, he reveals his being yet alive to his sister, who had bewailed him as dead, and slays the two murderers, while vainly exulting in his own supposed end. B. DRAMATIS PERSONS. Chrysorhemis. Clyremnestra. Atrendanr. Oresres. Electra. Chorus. Attendant. O son of Agamemnon who once commanded the army at Troy2, now mayest thou here present behold those things, for which thou wert ever eagerly longing. For this is the ancient Argos3, which thou didst desire, the grove of the 1 This play was translated into Latin by Attilius. Cic. de Fin. I. c. ii. §. 5. " A quibus tantum dissentio, tit, qnum Sophocles vel optime scrip- serit Electram, tamen male convenam Attilii legendam putem; de quo Licinius, ferreum scriptorem; verum, opinor, scriptorem tamen, ut legendus sit." See Bentley on Tus. Qurest. p. 56. Hermann. 2 Euripides twitted Sophocles with this line as superfluous, who retorted with the same objection on the two first lines of the Phoenissse. Sch. ad Phoen. Hermann thinks either exordium would be the worse for the omission. 3 Argos is here applied to the country by Brunck; but according to the Museum Criticum, No. I. " The cities of Argos and Mycense, being almost contiguous, went by the general name of Argos, as the two cities of London and Westminster are known by the common denomination of London." If the ancient reading, Ro yap—be revived, and the colon after oinroQuf removed, take aXffoj in apposition with Argos. Brunck's reading injures the metre. Hermann quotes Euripides to defend Sophocles' boldness; lvaxov poal: he considers Argos used loosely...« less