ἐπεί, temporal, ‘since’ (like “ἐξ οὗ”), as oft. in Her.and the poets. So also “ὅτε” ( Thuc. 1.13 “ἔτη δ᾽ ἐστὶ...τριακόσια...ὅτε...ἧλθε”). ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν, last night: so “νυκτὸς τῆσδε” Ai. 21 (cp. ib. 209): “νυκτὶ τῇδε” El. 644: while ‘tonight’ is “τῆς ἐπιούσης νυκτός” (Plat. Crito 46A). The Argives, having on the preceding day lost all their leaders except Adrastus, fled shortly before dawn (cp. 100). ὑπέρτερον here simply = “πλέον” (cp. nihil supra). As “οἶδ᾽ εὐτυχοῦσα ῀ οἶδ᾽ ὅτι εὐτυχῶ”, so the participles εὐτυχοῦσα and ἀτωμένη are epexegetic of “οὐδὲν ὑπέρτερον”, = “οὔθ᾽ ὅτι εὐτυχῶ οὔθ᾽ ὅτι ἀτῶμαι”. Of “ἀτᾶσθαι” we find only this pres. part. (below, 314, Ai. 384, Eur. Suppl. 182) and “ἀτώμεσθα” Ai. 269.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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