οὐχὶ ξυνίης; The “ἀντιλαβή” marks the interest of the moment: cp. 1209 n. οὐδέ γ᾽ εἰς θυμὸν φέρω: lit., ‘No, I cannot even bring (a conjecture) into my mind’; ‘I cannot form an idea.’ The phrase occurs nowhere else, and is not really like O.T. 975, “μή νυν ἔτ᾽ αὐτῶν μηδὲν ἐς θυμὸν βάλῃς” (‘lay to heart’). As οὐδέ shows, the Greek would not be adequately rendered by our phrase, ‘bring to mind’ (= ‘recall to memory’). When we say that an impression is ‘borne in upon’ the mind, the analogy is nearer.
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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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