δείλαι^ος, but in 1311 “δειλαίᾳ” with “αι_”: cp. O. C. 442 “οἱ τοῦ πατρὸς τῷ πατρί”: ib. 883 “ἆρ᾽ οὐχ ὕβρις τάδ᾽; ὕβρις”: Ph. 296“ἀλλ᾽ ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον”: ib. 827 “ὕπν᾽...ὕπνε” (with “υ_” in the first place, but “υ^” in the second): El. 148 “ἃ Ἴτυ^ν, αἰὲν” “Ιτυ_ν ὀλοφύρεται”.—The following are a few among many instances of αι^ before ο: 827 “πετραία”: 1131 “Νυσαίων”: 1140 “βιαίας”: Od. 20.379 “ἔμπαιον”: Tyrt. 10. 20“γεραιούς”: Aesch. Suppl. 385 (lyr.) “ἱκταίου” (Dind. “ἱκτίου”): Eur. El. 497 (dial.) “παλαιόν”. For the repetition cp. 379, 977. συγκέκραμαι, ‘blended with’ anguish, i.e. steeped in it: (Whitelaw: ‘Fulfilled with sorrow, and made one with grief.’) Cp. Ai. 895 “οἴκτῳ τῷδε συγκεκραμένην”, ‘her soul is steeped in the anguish of that wail’: Plut. 853 “οὕτω πολυφόρῳ συγκέκραμαι δαίμονι”, where the words just before, “ὡς ἀπόλωλα δείλαι^ος” (850), might suggest that the parody glanced at our passage.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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