οἱ κατ᾽ οἶκον, here=“οἱ οἰκέται”, as in Tr. 934“τῶν κατ᾽ οἶκον”. In Aesch. Cho. 749 ff. it is a domestic, the “τροφός”, who dwells on her care for the infancy of Orestes. ἦσαν, sc. “τροφοί.” ἀλλ᾽ ἐγὼ τροφός, sc. “ἦ”. [Not, “ἐγὼ” (“μὲν”) “τροφός, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἀδελφὴ..προσηυδώμην”.]
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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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