μή τις: “"Can it be some thunderbolt of Zeus, or the rushing onset of some hail-storm (that has scared you)?"” —“ἐξέπληξεν ὑμᾶς”, or the like. Theseus must, of course, be supposed to have heard the thunder which was pealing a few moments before; the doubt implied by μή is merely as to whether the blunder is the cause of the summons. ὀμβρία χάλαζα, hail falling in a shower: cp. O. T. 1279 “ὄμβρος χαλάζης” (n.). ἐπιρράξασα, from “ἐπιρράσσω”, which is either (1) trans., “"to dash one thing against another,"” as O. T. 1244 “πύλας...ἐπιρράξας᾿”, “"having dashed the doors together"” at her back: or (2) intrans., as here, “"to dash or burst on one"”: so with dat. Diod. 15. 84 “τοῖς Μαντινεῦσιν...ἐπέρραξεν”, “"he dashed upon"” them.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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