πρὸς ὅ τι, ‘in respect to whatever (grief).’ τῶν ἔνδον εἶ περισσά, ‘you are more excessive than those in the house,’—i.e., less moderate in showing sorrow: the gen., as after “περιγίγνομαι, περιεῖναι, περισσεύω” ( Xen. An. 4. 8. 11“περιττεύσουσιν ἡμῶν οἱ πολέμιοι”). ‘They are equally affected by every one of those troubles which you lament so much more vehemently than they do.’
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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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