φονᾷ: cp. 117 n.

τί ποτε; the verb understood is ἔστιν, not φονᾷ: cp. 381τί ποτ̓; ‘What means this?’

πατέρα ματεύων, as if φονῶ rather than φονᾷ νόος had preceded: cp. 159 n.

In vv. 492 ff. he had expressed the fear that his aged father must be dead; and here, in the bitterness of despair—when he feels himself utterly friendless upon earth—he utters a yearning to join Poeas in the world below. At brighter moments, again—when there is a gleam of hope that he may return to Malis—he thinks of his father as still living (665, 1371). And Heracles tells him that Poeas is indeed alive (1430).