ὡς ἔοικας (instead of “ὡς ἔοικεν”), as in El.516: so Helen. 497 “ὡς εἴξασιν.—φράσεις”, wilt ‘show,’ ‘make it clear’ (by acts, or words, or both). After such words—Hyllus means—some violent outburst of madness may be expected. “φράζειν”, ‘to declare,’ does not necessarily imply speech: Her.4. 113“φωνῆσαι μὲν οὐκ εἶχε, οὐ γὰρ συνίεσαν ἀλλήλων, τῇ δὲ χειρὶ ἔφραζε”. Aesch. Ag.1061“σὺ δ᾽ ἀντὶ φωνῆς φράζε καρβάνῳ χερί”. There is a shade of mournful irony in “φράσεις” (‘make it plain enough’), which is lost in the conjecture φανεῖς.—For the double “-εις”, cp. Soph. Ant.682“ὧν λέγεις δοκεῖς πέρι”.
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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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