ἐσχάτης … πυρᾶς, ‘on the edge of the mound,’—the local gen., developed out of the possessive (‘belonging to,’ and so ‘in the region of’): cp. Il. 9. 219（“ἷζεν”) “τοίχου τοῦ ἑτέροιο”: 17. 372 “νέφος δ᾽ οὐ φαι<*>νετο πάσης” | “γαίης οὐδ᾽ δρέων”. The word “πυρὰ” can mean, not only a funeral pyre, but also the place where a corpse was formerly burned (bustum), and is here a synonym for “τύμβος, κολώνη”. So Pind. I. 7. 57“πυρὰ<*> τάφον θ̓” (of Achilles): Eur. Hec. 386“πυρὰν Ἀχιλλέως”. νεώρη (“ὥρα”), recent, fresh ( O. C. 730“φόβον νεώρη”); here equivalent to an adverb (“νεωστί”) qualifying “τετμημένον”.
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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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