πλήρωμα (nom.), sc. “γενήσεται”: —cp. Eur. Hec.574“οἱ δὲ πληροῦσιν πυράν”, | “κορμοὺς φέροντες πευκίνους”. Though “πλήρωσις” would have been more natural, “πλήρωμα”, expressing the result, is equally correct here. 1214 (“πληρώσω”), ὅσον γε (“πληρώσαιμ̓”) ἂν μὴ ποτιψ.: cp. O. T.347“εἰργάσθαι θ̓, ὅσον” | “μὴ χερσὶ καίνων” (sc. “εἶχες εἰργάσθαι”). Hyllus will help to hew the wood, but not to build the pyre. The pyre was kindled by Philoctetes, or, acc. to another version, by Poeas ( Ph.802 n.).— ποτιψαύων: tragic lyrics admit “ποτί” (fr. 225), and its compounds (1030 “ἀποτίβατος”: Aesch. Theb.94“ποτιπέσω”, etc.). But tragic dialogue presents no other example, except Aesch. Eum.79“ποτὶ πτόλιν”.
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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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