ἡδέως has been variously altered, from a feeling that it is out of harmony with the tone of 29 f. and 149; but the word is well fitted to express that even a sound sleep, when it came to her, was apt to be suddenly broken. φόβῳ goes with ταρβοῦσαν, which it strengthens: cp. O. T.65“ὕπνῳ γ᾽ εὕδοντα” (n.): Ant.427“γόοισιν ἐξῴμωξεν”. ( O. C.1625 and Ph.225 are not similar.)
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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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