μόνα means merely that she alone is responsible for the death of Heracles as well as for her own. It does not anticipate the statement that she was unaided in her suicide (891).
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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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