ἔρρωγεν παγὰ δακρύων: cp. 919: Ant.802“ἴσχειν δ̓” | “οὐκέτι πηγὰς δύναμαι δακρύων”. The natural sense is, ‘The stream of tears has burst forth’; i.e., ‘we all weep for this calamity.’ The words could not well mean merely, ‘a source of tears has been opened’; i.e., a woe has befallen, which will claim tears.
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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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