τὸ δυσέριστον αἷμα, bloodshed, deadly vengeance, against which the guilty will strive in vain. “δυσέριστον”= “δύσμαχον”: cp. 220 “οὐκ ἐριστά”. Not, as the schol. took it, ‘bloodshed caused by unholy strife’ (between mother and children). φυσῶν: cp. I. A. 125 “οὐ μέγα φυσῶν θυμὸν ἐπαρεῖ” | “σοὶ”..; I. T. 288 (the Erinys) “πῦρ πνέουσα καὶ φόνον”.
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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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