εἰς ἅπαντας: cp. O.T. 93 “ἐς πάντας αὔδα” (n.). χρῇς. As to the forms “χρῇς, χρῇ”, see on Ant. 887“εἴτε χρῇ θανεῖν” | “εἴτ᾽ ἐν τοιαύτῃ ζῶσα τυμβεύειν στέγῃ”,—where “ζῶσα” excludes “χρή”. Here, as in Ai. 1373（“σοὶ δὲ δρᾶν ἔξεσθ᾽ ἃ χρῇς”), “χρὴ” is possible, but certainly less natural than a verb in the 2nd person. στόμαργον. It is probable that “στόμαργος” was only another form of “στόμαλγος”, which is not found; though “στομαλγία” was preferred to “στομαργία”, as “γλωσσαλγία” to “γλωσσαργία”. Both “γλώσσαλγος” and “γλώσσαργος” occur in later Greek.
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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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