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[304] ἑπτάετες δέ. The order of vv. 304, 305 is inverted in the present text. In the common order, the pronoun “ταῦτα”, instead of referring back to what has been stated, is made to throw its meaning forward, so that “κτείνας” follows it as a sort of epexegesis for which we should rather expect “κτεῖναί γ̓” or “κτεῖνε γάρ”. La Roche supports the inversion, “genuinum horum versuum ordinem restituimus, Bergkio praeeunte, secuti scholiastam ad Soph. Electr. 267καὶ γὰρ μετὰ τὸ φονεῦσαι Ἀγαμέμνονα Αἴγισθος ἐβασίλευσεν. Ὅμηρος: Αἴγισθος ἤνασσε πολυχρύσοιο Μυκήνης, κτείνας Ἀτρείδην κ.τ.λ.”’

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