[472] Κῆρες avenging spirits, identified with the Furies in Aesch. Seven 1055 “Κῆρες Ἐρινύες, αἵ τ᾽ Οἰδιπόδα ι γένος ὠλέσατε.” Hes. Th. 217 “(Νὺξ) καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους ... ι αἵ τ᾽ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε παραιβασίας ἐφέπουσαι ι οὐδέποτε λήγουσι θεαὶ δεινοῖο χόλοιο, ι πρίν γ᾽ ἀπὸ τῷ δώωσι κακὴν ὄπιν, ὅστις ἁμάρτῃ.” The Μοῖραι decree, the Κῆρες execute. In Soph. Trach. 133 “κῆρες” = calamities.
ἀναπλάκητοι not erring or failing in pursuit: cp. Soph. Trach. 120 “ἀλλά τις θεῶν ι αἰὲν ἀναμπλάκητον Ἅιδα σφε δόμων ἐρύκει,” some god suffers not Heracles to fail, but keeps him from death. Metre requires here the form without μ. ἀμπλακεῖν is prob. a cognate of πλάζω (from stem πλαγ for “πλακ,” Curt. Etym. 367), strengthened with an inserted μ; cp. ἄβροτος, ἄμβροτος.
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