εὐμαρὴς θεός, a god who brings ease,—soothing difficulties, and making burdens tolerable (cp. O. C. 7, O. C. 437). “εὐμαρής” has here an active sense: cp. Ph. 44“φύλλον...νώδυνον”, a herb that soothes pain. Eur. H. F. 17“συμφορὰς δὲ τὰς ἐμὰς” | “ἐξευμαρίζων”. Philon vol. 2. p. 43 (ap. Nauck) describes “χρόνος” as “ἱκανὸς καὶ πένθος ἀνελεῖν καὶ θυμὸν σβέσαι καὶ φόβον θεραπεῦσαι: πάντα γὰρ ἐξευμαρίζει”. For this use of θεός, cp. Soph. O. T. 27 n.
This text is part of:
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.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.