ἱερῶν οἵων, gen. of price.— ἐπί μοι, lit., ‘in my case’: Ph.1384“λέγεις δ᾽ Ἀτρείδαις ὄφελος ἢ ᾿π᾽ ἐμοὶ τόδε”; Others explain, ‘against me,’ ‘to my hurt’; but this suits the irony less well.— The MS. ἠνύσω has been altered by many recent edd. to ἤνυσας: but the proper force of the midd., ‘to obtain,’ ‘win’ ( Plut. 196 etc.), seems fitting here, since the sacrificial altars may be said to have earned the recompense given by Zeus. ἤνυσας would be simply, ‘hast effected.’ ὦ Ζεῦ at the end of the sentence: Ph.1139 n
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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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