ἐγὼ μὲν: here “μέν” merely emphasises the pron.: cp. Ant. 11 n. καὶ τὸ σὸν … καὶ τοὐμὸν: cp. Ai. 1313“ὅρα μὴ τοὐμὸν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ σόν”. The chief stress is upon “τὸ σόν”: but the meaning is not merely that her interests are to them as their own. These women, representing the people of Mycenae, desire the downfall of the usurper whose unpunished crime lays an “ἄγος” upon the land. Their attitude is, so far, like that of the Argive elders in the Agamemnon. They wish Electra, not to renounce her purpose, but quietly to await her opportunity (177 ff.).
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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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