ἣν, referring back to “κρηπίς” (993); cp. 358 (n.). Wunder needlessly placed ἣν … ὄσσοις immediately after 993. μή ποτ̓ belongs to προσιδεῖν, not to ὤφελον, though the latter might have come between them; cp. Ph.969“μή ποτ᾽ ὤφελον λιπεῖν” (n.). ἀκήλητον: schol. “ἀνίατον, ἀκαταπράϋντον.—ἄνθος”=“ἀκμήν”: cp. Ant.959“τᾶς μανίας δεινὸν”... | “ἀνθηρόν τε μένος” (n.). καταδερχθῆναι, inf. expressing result, without “ὥστε”: cp. Ant.1076“ληφθῆναι” (n.). Though the malady is his own, he can be said ‘to look upon it,’ in the sense of experiencing it: cp. O. T.832“πρόσθεν ἢ τοιάνδ᾽ ἰδεῖν” | “κηλῖδ᾽ ἐμαυτῷ συμφορᾶς ἀφιγμένην”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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