ἀλλὰ … γὰρ, elliptical: ‘but (I have excuse), for,’ etc.: cp. 223, 595. ἡ … ἐκ σοῦ δυσμένεια: cp. Ant. 95“τὴν ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσβουλίαν”: Tr. 631“τὸν πόθον τὸν ἐξ ἐμοῦ.” ἐξαναγκάζει: cp. 256.— αἰσχροῖς, sc. “πράγμασι”: cp. 308 f. 622 f. The word θρέμμα is not necessarily scornful (see Ph. 243“<*> τοῦ γέροντος θρέμμα Λυκομήδους”); but it is sometimes applied to monsters ( Tr. 1093, etc.), or used, as here, in a disparaging tone, like our word ‘creature’; cp. Aesch. Th. 182(said to the Chorus), “θρέμματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά”. ἦ σ᾽ ἐγὼ κ.τ.λ., a bitter echo of Electra's phrase (619 f.): ‘Yes, indeed,—they draw only too many words from thee.’ Others understand (less well, I think):—‘Indeed, my forbearance in word and deed encourages thee to say too much.’
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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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