γὰρ, merely prefatory ( O. T. 277 n.). ἱκόμην, followed by the historic pres. “χρῇ”: cp. 425. μάθοιμ̓: the elision gives quasi-caesura, as in Ant. 44, Ph. 276, etc. ἀροίμην, opt. of 2nd aor. “ἠρόμην” ( Ant. 907, Ai. 247). The direct deliberative form is “τίνι τρόπῳ ἄρωμαι”; The indirect, (a) after a primary tense, “ἱκνοῦμαι ὡς ἂν μάθω ὅτῳ ἄρωμαι”: (b) after a secondary tense, as above. Cp. O. T. 71 f. “ὡς πύθοιθ᾽ ὅ τι” | “δρῶν...ῥυσαίμην πόλιν” (n.). It is also possible to take “ἀροίμην” as opt. of fut. “ἀροῦμαι”: but it may be objected that, in such clauses, the fut. indic. was commonly retained, even after a secondary tense (cp. Goodwin, Moods and Tenses, new ed., §§ 130, 340). —For the sense, ‘win,’ ‘achieve,’ cp. Ai. 193, O. C. 460.
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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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