ὄντος … βεβῶτος. The leading idea of the sentence is here expressed by the gen. absol., as so often by the participle in other cases (O.C. 1038 n.).—It was necessary for the plot that the absence of Aegisthus should be notified to the spectators at some early moment; Clytaemnestra reminds them of it at v. 517.
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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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