τύπωμα, anything formed or moulded; Soph. Ph. 162“μορφῆς τύπωμα”, ‘the outline of his form.’ The vague word is here defined by χαλκόπλευρον: which may be a reminiscence of the phrase used by Aesch. ( Aesch. Ch. 686) in the same context, “λέβητος χαλκέου πλευρώματα”. The cinerary urn is described below as “βραχὺς χαλκὸς” (757), “τεῦχος” (1114), “ἄγγος” (1118), “λέβης” (1401). Cp. fr. 348 “χαλκηλάτους λέβητας”. ἠρμένοι, pass.,=“ἠρμένον ἔχοντες” (schol.). Cp. Aeschin. or. 3 § 164 “ἐπιστολὰς ἃς ἐξηρτημένος ἐκ τῶν δακτύλων περιῄεις” (as Hor. Sat. 1. 6. 74 “suspensi loculos” ): Xen. Anab. 7. 4. 16“ἐσπασμένοι τὰ ξίφη”: id. Cyr. 6. 3. 24 “προβεβλημένοι...τοὺς θωρακοφόρους” : Plut. Phoc. 10“πώγωνα...καθειμένος”. See also Soph. Tr. 157 n. Others take “ἠρμένοι” as middle. This use of “ἦρμαι” is not unknown to later Greek; e.g. Strabo 3. p. 150 has “νίκην ἠρμένοι”=“ἀράμενοι”. But there is no example of it in the classical period.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VI: The Electra. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.
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