ὥστε is preferable to ὥσπερ (cr. n.) in the first foot of the glyconic verse: for this use of it, cp. 112, 367, 537, 699, 703, 768, 1071. πόρτις ἐρήμα: Schneidewin compares Anacreon fr. 52 “οἷά τε νεβρὸν νεοθηλέα” | “γαλαθηνόν, ὅστ᾽ ἐν ὕλῃ κεροέσσης” | “ἀπολειφθεὶς ἀπὸ μητρὸς ἐπτοήθη”. The image is especially suitable to one who was destined to have no secure or permanent home.
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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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