If the gods allow her to suffer for obeying them, is it not vain for her to invoke them? βλέπειν “εἴς τινα” (for help), as Ai. 398, 514, El. 959. τίνα … ξυμμάχων, what ally (of all conceivable allies)? ἐπεί γε δή: cp. Tr. 484 “ἐπεί γε μὲν δή”. For the place of “δή”, cp. 726. τὴν δυσσέβειαν, the repute of it; El. 968 “εὐσέβειαν ἐκ πατρὸς ι θανόντος οἴσει”: Eur. I. T. 676 “καὶ δειλίαν γὰρ καὶ κάκην κεκτήσομαι”: Med. 218“δύσκλειαν ἐκτήσαντο καὶ ῥᾳθυμίαν”: Ion 600“γέλωτ᾽ ἐν αὐτοῖς μωρίαν τε λήψομαι”.
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