μή τοι θυραίαν γ̓: “τοι” (Lat. sane） here limits with an ironical force, while “γε” lays stress on the adj. The combination “μή τοί...γε” occurs also in O. C. 1407, Ai. 472: “μή τοι”, without “γε”, in O. C. 1439, Ant. 544. αἰσχύνειν φίλους: said from an Athenian point of view (on Ant. 578). The Homeric maiden of noble birth, such as Nausicaa, has more freedom.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VI: The Electra. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.
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