ψυχῆς, ‘life’; see on O. C. 998 f. The word has been suspected, and prosaically altered (cr. n.). But it is strictly correct to describe a child as ‘born from’ its mother's ‘life.’ Here the phrase has a pathetic force; his very life was her gift.
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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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