πατρῷα … πήματα, the woes arising from her father's murder; and so, here, the woes of her father's house. For this large sense of the adj., cp. O. C. 1196“πατρῷα καὶ μητρῷα πήμαθ᾽ ἅπαθες”: Ant. 856“πατρῷον...ἆθλον”, an ordeal bequeathed by him.
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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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