ταφεῦσιν, birds and dogs: Aesch. Th. 1020“ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν”... | “ταφέντ᾽ ἀτίμως”: see on Soph. Ant. 1081. ἄποπτον ἡμῶν, far from our sight; the gen. as after words of ‘distance from’ ( O. T. 762 n.). Cp. Od. 3. 258, where Nestor says that, if Menelaüs on his return had found Aegisthus still living,—“τῷ κέ οἱ οὐδ<*> θανόντι χυτὴν ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἔχευαν”, | “ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα τόν γε κύνες τε καὶ οἰωνοὶ κατ-” “έδαψαν” | “κείμενον ἐν πεδίῳ ἑκὰς ἄστεος”. Pausan. 2. 16 § 7 “Κλυταιμνήστρα δὲ ἐτάφη καὶ Αἴγισθος ὀλίγον ἀπωτέρω τοῦ τείχους, ἐντὸς δὲ ἀπηξιώθησαν, ἔνθα Ἀγαμέμνων τε αὐτὸς ἔκειτο καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ φονευθέντες”.
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