ἥτις, with causal force: cp. 187. ἐσεῖδον suits “θανόντα” no less than “ζῶντα”, since she had seen the urn: cp. 1129 “νῦν μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ὄντα βαστάζω χεροῖν.” ᾶσκοπα, in a way which she could not have imagined beforehand; cp. 864. As the next verses show, the meaning is not merely, ‘thou hast given me an unlooked-for joy,’ but rather, ‘thou hast wrought upon my mind with a bewildering effect of joy,—so that, if the dead returned, I should scarcely marvel.’
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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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