καίτοι: you disregard my authority, and yet complain of it as oppressive. δὴ goes with πολλούς: cp. 202 “ἐχθίστα δή” (n.). ἐξεῖπάς με … ὡς: cp. 332 n. θρασεῖα, ‘insolent’: cp. Legg. 630 B “θρασεῖς καὶ ἄδικοι καὶ ὑβρισταί”. I. T. 275 “ἀνομίᾳ θρασύς”. Aesch. P. V. 42(of “Κράτος”) “ἀεί γε δὴ νηλὴς σὺ καὶ θράσους πλέως”. The conj. τραχεῖα is plausible, but needless. ἄρχω ‘rule’: it should not be taken with the partic., as= ‘provoke with insult’ (552). Cp. 264 “κἀκ τῶνδ᾽ ἄρχομαι”: 597 “δεσπότιν”.
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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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