ἐπεί, ‘for else’; i.e., “εἰ μὴ ἐπεποίθη”. So in O.T. 433 “ἐπεὶ” implies “εἰ ᾔδη.” μακρὰν means, ‘so long as I actually have lived.’ ‘If I had not (hitherto) been confident, I should not have continued to live so long.’ 324 Here, as in 316, νῦν is better than νυν. The Chorus wish Electra to cease speaking of Orestes, because they regard Chrysothemis as a partisan of Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus. δόμων, gen. of the place whence, with φέρουσαν: cp. Ph. 613“ἄγοιντο νήσου”: O. T. 152“Πυθῶνος..ἔβας”.
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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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