μορφῇ, dat. of respect: μάλιστ᾽ εἰκαστὸν, lit., ‘most nearly comparable’; but, instead of a simple dat., “ἐκβρώμασι”, we have a clause with ὥστε (=“ὡς”), as if (e.g.) “οὕτως ἔχον” had preceded. πρίονος ἐκβρώματ̓ = “πρίσματα” (or “παραπρίσματα”): Schneidewin cp. Nicander Ther.52“καὶ ἡ πρίονεσσι τομαίη” | “κέδρος, πουλυόδουσι καταψηχθεῖσα γενείοις.—ἐν τομῇ ξύλου”=“ὅτε ξύλον τέμνεται”: for the form of the phrase, cp. Ant.24 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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