ὅποι γῆς … φέρει (cp. O. T. 1309“ποῖ γᾶς φέρομαι”..; ), in a figurative sense, —‘you know not into what regions your thoughts are straying,’—i.e., how far from realities: “ὅποι γνώμης” explains this. Cp. 390; and a proverb cited by G. Wolff from Apostolius Paroem. 14. 57 “ποῦ γῆς ἢ θαλάττης ὑπῆρχες; ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνοήτων” (as we say, ‘to be at sea’).
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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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