ἔχρισα μὲν corresponds with κἄθηκα in 691, not with εἴσω δ̓ in 693. Cp. Ai.1“ἀεὶ μέν”,...3 “καὶ νῦν”: Thuc.2. 65§ 12 “δέκα μὲν ἔτη ἀντεῖχον...καὶ οὐ πρότερον ἐνέδοσαν”. So “μέν...τε”, belowThuc., 1012.— κατ᾽ οἶκον, in the house (and not outside the gates): ἐν δόμοις, in the “γυναικωνῖτις”, and not in the open “αὐλή”. For this limited sense of “δόμοι”, cp. Hom. Od.6. 303“ἀλλ᾽ ὁπότ᾽ ἄν σε δόμοι κεκύθωσι καὶ αὐλή”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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