Sunday, January 28, 2024

 

An Unwelcome Lesson

Sophocles, Electra 395-396 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
ELECTRA
Do not try to teach me to be disloyal to my own!
CHRYSOTHEMIS
It is not that that I am trying to teach you, but to yield to those in power.

ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
μή μ᾿ ἐκδίδασκε τοῖς φίλοις εἶναι κακήν.
ΧΡΥΣΟΘΕΜΙΣ
ἀλλ᾿ οὐ διδάσκω· τοῖς κρατοῦσι δ᾿ εἰκαθεῖν.


396 εἰκαθεῖν Elmsley: εἰκάθειν codd.
Note the compound/simplex verbal iteration (ἐκδίδασκε...διδάσκω), unmentioned by P.J. Finglass and J.C. Kamerbeek in their commentaries. See



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