ἄθλων τῶνδ̓, the labours for Eurystheus. ὑπερτελὴς, rising clear of them: Eur. Ion1549“οἴκων...ὑπερτελής” (appearing above it): Aesch. Ag.359“ὑπερτελέσαι” | “μέγα δουλείας” | “γάγγαμον ἄτης.—ἔφυ” seems to be here no more than “ἐγένετο” (as in Soph. El.236, and often). Some, however, understand, ‘now that his inborn force has prevailed,’ etc.— ταρβήσασ᾽ ἔχω=“τετάρβηκα”. The periphrasis is somewhat rare when the verb is intrans.; but cp. Soph. O. T.731“οὐδέ π<*> λήξαντ̓ ἔχει”.
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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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