μαστῶν κ.τ.λ.: i.e., ‘he deserted me who had suckled and reared him’: the words do not imply that Orestes was still an infant when he left her (see on 13 f.). ἀποστὰς: similarly a slave who left his master was said “ἀφίστασθαι” ( Lys. or. 23 § 7, etc.). ἀπεξενοῦτο, ‘became estranged.’ Cp. Eur. Hipp. 1084 f. “οὐκ ἀκούετε” | “πάλαι ξενοῦσθαι τόνδε προὐννέποντά με”; (‘that he is no longer my son’).
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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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