πρὸς κακοῖσι, ‘in addition to the miseries’ of the family.—Not:—‘Do not these things involve cowardice in addition to being base?’ That would require “πρὸς τῷ κακῷ”, as Plat. Critop. 46 A “μὴ ἅμα τῷ κακῷ καὶ αἰσχρὰ ᾖ” (=“ἅμα τῷ κακὰ εἶναι”). δειλίαν ἔχει, cp. Dem. or. 18 § 279 “τὸ δὲ δὴ καὶ τοὺς πρὸς ἐμὲ αὐτὸν ἀγῶνας ἐάσαντα νῦν ἐπὶ τόνδ᾽ ἥκειν καὶ πᾶσαν ἔχει κακίαν”.
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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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