536 ARS SOPHOCLIS INTERPRETANDI. 



Jebb's text runs : 

 tov ao a TAa/^nov ao/ci'o'-r, /jLeyaXav Tr/'Ocropwo-a ou/jiDurt pAnp'H' vnov 

 <tiaa-ov(Tav ya/xwv, ro fiiv aiiTU Trpofr ipo.Xe ' tu 8 nz (i\\o9p<)v 

 yvit)f.ia<; jj,i>X('tvT oXtiOpiaLCfL ffvv(i.\X.ayai>^ 1) zoii oAofJ arti'ei 



He translates : " Of such things this hapless lady had no fore- 

 boding ; [but she saw a great mischief swiftly coming on her home 

 from the new marriage. Her own hand applied the remedy ; 

 but for the issues of a stranger's counsel, given at a fatal meeting, 

 — for these, I ween, she makes despairing lament, etc." 



To get this sense Jebb has to accept four serious changes of the 

 text. And yet the very words that are shown by the words in 

 the corresponding strophe to be undoubtedly corrupt he passes 

 by with the remark : " o-rivei is metrically suspicious ; the 

 corresponding word in the antistrophe is vv/x(pav 857." And must 

 we not in the first place correct the words that we know are, on 

 metrical grounds, undoubtedly corrupt ? Does it not show that 

 their sense maj^ fundamentally change our view of the whole 

 sentence and render other conjectures unnecessary ? 



In line 376 Deianeira talks of lole as : t/v' KKT^iS^y/uu -f?/t<ii'))v 

 v-ocTTtyov AaOpaiov | 



In V. 893 sqq. the chorus says : 



tTEKev (TiKt 8>; fnyaXav 



a VfO/>TOs" «0£, VVfKfxi. 

 CO/XOl^ T()/(Trt t,plVVV. 



In V. 857 lole is called Ooiiv vvj^k^i'v and in 1139 she is referred 

 to as Tov^ fv8ov yafjiov^. 



In the light of these passages I hold that the only corruption 

 in our passage is to be sought in oXo« aTtvat as shown by the 

 metre of the corresponding \"erse in the antistrophe. For 

 vXouaTtviL i.e. OAOAETENEI I would propose u\oa<; thivh i.e. 

 OA()A2TEINEI. oAoa? goes with -yi'^ij/xa?. 



The thought of the chorus is that Deianeira sees the new woman 

 lole fall upon her home but she does not directly attack her. She 

 follows a circuitous way. She tries to win Herakles' love back 

 by following the advice given by Nessos the Centaur. This ad\'ice 

 the chorus deems to be harmful. 



The sentence runs thus : 



f.ii' 00 (I rA«/<wi' aoi<}'Ov myaAo-V 



-po<Ti>nMiTa to/LtoitrL ^'jXajjdV I'fojv 

 uKTcrovTMi' ycffHtH', r« /ttr ovtl TrpotTipaAt-: 



Til A i~ uWoOpoV 



y\'0}p.a<^ fxoAoVT oApM pi (xuri, (TVvu.W('.y«.i<; 

 17 7TOV oAo((9 TfM'et, ktX. 



