τί δῆτ᾽ ἂν … ἐπεντέλλοις = τί δῆτ᾽ ἂν εἴη...ὃ ἐπεντέλλεις; cp. O. C. 647 “μέγ᾽ ἂν λέγοις δώρημα”: Ph. 26. The reading ἄλλῳ is a bad one, for the contrast is between commands, not persons; and an awkward ambiguity would arise, since τοῦτο might then seem to mean the watching of the corpse. ἐπιχωρεῖν, accedere, to join their side: Thuc. 4.107 “δεξάμενος τοὺς ἐθελήσαντας ἐπιχωρῆσαι... κατὰ τὰς σπονδάς”. Mirab. 133 “τούτῳ τῷ ἐπιγράμματι ἐπεχώρησε καὶ ὁ τόπος ἐκεῖνος” (corroborated it). ἀπιστοῦσιν = ἀπειθοῦσιν: 381, 656. τάδε, cogn. acc.: cp. 66.
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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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