τῆς ἐλπίδος, not ‘hope,’ but ‘the hope’—defined in next v. δεδραγμένος is certain. Il. 13.393 “κόνιος δεδραγμένος” (and 16. 486). Diod. 12. 67“δράξασθαι καιροῦ”. (Cp. Shaks. Per.f. 1. 49 “Gripe not at earthly joys.”) Here the phrase is meant to be homely. The v.l. πεφραγμένος was simply an attempt to mend L's πεπραγμένος. We should require the dat. with it. The gen. cannot be justified by instances in which poetry uses a gen. of the agent without “ὑπό”, after pass. part., as Ai. 807 “φωτὸς ἠπατημένη”, Eur. Or. 497 “πληγεὶς θυγατρός”, etc. τὸ μὴ παθεῖν ἄν = ὅτι οὐ “πάθοιμι ἄν”, depending on “ἐλπίδος...δεδρ”. as=“ἐλπίζων”: for the art. with infin., cp. 78 n. τὸ μόρσιμον: i.e. if you do kill me, then it was my destiny to be killed.
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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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