Note 244 — ACT II.

There is an Attic flavour in this passage of stichomythia. For a passing moment one is reminded of Creon’s altercation with his son (in the Antigone):—

Κρ. ὦ παγκάκιστε, διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί.

Αι. οὐ γὰρ δίκαιά σ’ ἐξαμαρτάνονθ’ ὁρῶ.

Κρ. ἁμαρτάνω γὰρ τὰς ἐμὰς ἀρχὰς σέβων;

Αι. οὐ γὰρ σέβεις, τιμάς γε τὰς θεῶν πατῶν.