ἡ λόγοισι γενναία, noble in her professions (though not in her deeds), inasmuch as she claimed to be the instrument of heaven in avenging her daughter: “ἡ γὰρ Δίκη νιν εἷλεν, οὐκ ἐγὼ μόνη” (528). The Aeschylean Clytaemnestra speaks in the same lofty strain ( Ag. 1431 ff.).— Others understand, ‘this so-called noble woman,’ as if “λόγοισι” denoted words said of (not by) her.
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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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