τῆς θέας: for the gen., cp. O. T.885“Δίκας ἀφόβητος.—ὅδ̓”, after ὅστις, as in Ant.463 f. The drawback to ὁ δ̓ here is that it would be unduly emphatic: see Ph.87, Appendix. 24 f. These two verses are plainly genuine. It is idle to condemn them merely because they are not indispensable. Nauck, who spares v. 24, rejects v. 25 because Deianeira ought to speak of her fate as depending ‘on the issue of the combat, not on her beauty.’ As if her beauty was not the cause of the combat. It might as well be objected to v. 465, “τὸ κάλλος αὐτῆς τὸν βίον διώλεσεν”, that Iolè was the victim of war. ἐξεύροι: cp. Ph.287“γαστρὶ μὲν τὰ σύμφορα” | “τόξον τόδ᾽ ἐξηύρισκε”.
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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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