τὴν, a rare instance of the art. used as relat. pron. in dial gue without metrical necessity: see O. C.747 n. The motive here may have been a wish to avoid four consecutive endings in ν. πημονῆς ἄτερ. If the “δέλτος” should prove to have foretold the death of Heracles, then she would have received it “σὺν πημονῇ”: it would have been a harbinger of woe.—As to Wunder's rejection of vv<*> 44—48, see Appendix.
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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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