ὁποῖα δραστἔ ἐστίν, sc. “εἶπον”. The reply passes over “εἴργασαι”, and refers to “εἶπας”: cp. 423, where “πολλοῖσιν ἀστῶν” answers the earlier of two queries. εἰ δὲ μή, sc. “δράσεις.—γεν<*>ῦ”, ‘become’, as if by adoption (“εἰσποίησις”) into another family. Cp. Lys. or. 13 § 91 “τόν τε γόνῳ πατέρα...τόν τε ποιητὸν πατέρα”. So Oedipus to Polyneices, O.C. 1383 “σὺ δ᾽ ἔρρ᾽ ἀπόπτυστός τε κἀπάτωρ ἐμοῦ”.
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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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