Thursday, August 03, 2023

 

The Whole Truth

Sophocles, Women of Trachis 90-91 (Hyllus speaking; tr. R.C. Jebb):
Now that I have the knowledge, I will spare no pains
to learn the whole truth in this matter.

νῦν δ᾽ ὡς ξυνίημ᾽, οὐδὲν ἐλλείψω τὸ μὴ
πᾶσαν πυθέσθαι τῶνδ᾽ ἀλήθειαν πέρι.


90 post μὴ add. οὐ Brunck
See A.C. Moorhouse, "The Construction with MH ΟΥ," Classical Quarterly 34.1/2 (January-April, 1940) 70-77, and A.C. Moorhouse, The Syntax of Sophocles (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982), pp. 328-330.



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