σοὶ ταῖσδέ τ᾽ οὐδὲν εἴργεται: the verb is clearly passive: the midd. “εἴργομαι” occurs only as=‘to keep oneself off’ from something ( O. T.890 n.). And it is simpler to take οὐδὲν as nom. than as adv. with an impers. verb. σοὶ ταῖσδέ τ̓ might be a dat. of interest: ‘for thee and these, nothing is excluded’: but it is truer (I think) to carry on “ἐξειπεῖν”. Thus the strict sense is:—‘for the purpose of telling to thee and these, nothing is excluded.’ The ordinary “οὐδὲν εἴργει” occurs at 1257.
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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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