ἀστῶν ἢ ξένων. As in O. T. 1489 ff., the poet is thinking of festivals or spectacles at which Athenian women could appear in public, when many visitors from other cities were present. δεξιώσεται, properly, to give the right hand to one in welcome; Aeschin. or. 3 § 87 “ὁ νυνὶ πάντας δεξιούμενος καὶ προσγελῶν”: Plut. 752 (“οἱ γὰρ δίκαιοι”) “αὐτὸν ἠσπάζοντο καὶ” | “ἐδεξιοῦνθ᾽ ἅπαντες”: then, generally, ‘to greet’; Paus. 2. 16. 2“ἰδεῖν ἤθελε τὸν γονέα τῆς μητρός, καὶ λόγοις τε χρηστοῖς καὶ ἔργοις δεξιώσασθαι”.
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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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