^LKavLKo^ A6yo<: in Euripides. 25 



4. 'E7rtX.o709, 1049, 1050 : 



X,eV et Tt %/3?/^ei? Kavrtde^ Trapprja-la 

 OTTOX? riOrjKe o-o«f Trarrip ovk evhUco^- 

 After a few words have passed between Elektra and Kly- 

 taimnestra (vv. 1055-1059), the former delivers a ^^cri? in 

 reply to the above arguments. 



'Prio-is OF Elektra, i 060-1 096. 



1. Ylpooipiiov, 1060, 1061 : 



\eyotfi'' civ apXV ^' V^^ f^°^ -rrpooiiMiov} 

 eW elx^^y ^ TeKOVcra, /SeXr/ou? (/)peVa?. 



2. Up6d6aL^ included in the first part of the Triarei^. 



3. Xlt'o-ret?, 1062-1093 {^Mo-av) : 



a. 1062-1068. Helen and yourself are worthy of praise in 

 regard to beauty, but you are both sinful and unworthy of 

 Kastor, for she left her husband 2 willingly,^ and you have 

 killed the noblest man of Greece under the pretext of aveng- 

 ing your daughter's death. 



/3. 1069-1075. Before your daughter's death, as soon as 

 your husband had departed from home, you began to arrange 

 your auburn locks in front of the mirror. The wife who 

 takes pains with her toilet when her husband is away from 

 home has some wickedness in view. 



7. 1076-1085. You alone of all the Grecian dames were 

 filled with joy when the Trojans were successful, but when 

 they were defeated you were downcast because you did not 

 wish Agamemnon's return from Troy.* 



S. 1086- 1093 i^Sxrav). What wrong have I and my brother 

 done to you .? After killing your husband, why did you not 

 share our father's home with us rather than marry again .? 



1 V. 1060. " wpooifiiov absurdum." Nauck. J. Kvicala (Eur. Stud. I, p. 73) 

 suggests irpooifjLiov. 



2 V. 1065. dwvx^To for dTTciXero of the MSS. is Pierson's conjecture, now 



generally accepted. 



3 Cf. this statement with Troad. 373, 99S. 

 * Retain v. 1079. 



