εἷλον … πρόδοτον. The murderous hands ‘took her life captive,’ since the crime placed her wholly in their power (264); and this was done by treachery. “πρόδοτον” is predicative, expressing the mode of capture; cp. Thuc. 6. 102“ἡγούμενοι” (“τὸν κύκλον”) “ἐρῆμον αἱρήσειν”. But in Soph. Tr. 240, “ᾕρει...ἀνάστατον”.. | “χώραν”, the adj. is proleptic.
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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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