ἀρίστης, since Alcmena, daughter of Electryon and Anaxo, belonged on both sides to the Perseidae, and so traced her descent from Zeus himself. ὠνομασμένος: it is not necessary to supply “γόνος” from 1106: cp. fr. 84 “καταρκεῖ τοῦδε κεκλῆσθαι πατρός.—αὐδηθεὶς”: cp. 736: Ph.240“αὐδῶμαι δὲ παῖς” | “Ἀχιλλέως”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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