[59] This clause interrupts the construction. [Greek:  dramontes] must be understood with all the following sentence, as no finite verb is expressed except [Greek:  eperasan].

[60] I have partly followed Hermann, reading [Greek:  epebaien ... apolauon], but, as to reading [Greek:  hypnon] for [Greek:  hymnon], the Cambridge editor well calls it “one of the wonders of his edition.”  I should prefer reading [Greek:  olbou] with the same elegant scholar.

[61] I follow the Cambridge editor in reading [Greek:  didymas], from Ovid, Ep.  Pont. iii. 2, 71.  “Protinus immitem Triviae ducuntur ad aram, Evincti geminas ad sua terga manus.”

[62] “displays while she offers” i.e. “presents as a public offering” ED. CAMB.

[63] I am but half satisfied with this passage.

[64] Read [Greek:  esesthe de kato] with the Cambridge editor.

[65] We must read [Greek:  no] with Porson.

[66] Probably a spurious line.

[67] Read [Greek:  Mykenon g’], ay, from Mycenae, with the Cambridge editor.

[68] Hermann seems rightly to read [Greek:  hos g’ en].

[69] Dindorf rightly adopts Reiske’s emendation [Greek:  sy toud’ era].

[70] The Cambridge editor rightly reads [Greek:  tina] with an accent, as Orestes obviously means himself.  Compare Soph.  Ant. 751. [Greek:  hed’ oun thaneitai, kai thanous’ olei tina].

[71] Such is the force of [Greek:  de].

[72] I would read [Greek:  exepraxato] with Emsley, but I do not agree with him in substituting [Greek:  kaken].  The oxymoron seems intentional, and by no means unlike Euripides.

[73] The Cambridge editor would read [Greek:  est’ outis logos].

[74] But [Greek:  charin], as Matthiae remarks, is taken in two senses; as a preposition with [Greek:  gynaikos], ob improbam mulierem, and as a substantive, with [Greek:  acharin] added.  Cf.  AEsch.  Choeph. 44.  Lucretius uses a similar oxymoron respecting the same subject, i. 99.  “Sed casta inceste nubendi tempore in ipso Hostia concideret mactatu maesta parentis.”

[75] This passage is very corrupt.  The Cambridge editor supposes something lost respecting the fortunes of Orestes.  Hermann reads [Greek:  hen de lypeisthai monon, ho t’ ouk aphron on].  But I am very doubtful.

[76] These three lines are justly condemned as an absurd interpolation by Dindorf and the Cambridge editor.

[77] This seems the easiest way of expressing [Greek:  kai sy] after [Greek:  sy d’].

[78] I am partly indebted to Potter’s happy version.  The Cambridge editor is as ingenious as usual, but he candidly allows that conjecture is scarcely requisite.

[79] i.e. thou seemest reckless of life.

[80] [Greek:  prostrope], this mode of offering supplication, i.e. this duty of sacrifice.