ἐπ᾽ ἄλλ᾽. τρέπε = ἄλλοις ἐπίτρεπε: Aesch. Eum. 434 “ἦ κἀπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τρέποιτ᾽ ἂν αἰτίας τέλος”; (‘would ye commit the decision of the charge to me’?) This is ‘tmesis’ in the proper sense,—where the prep. determines the special sense of the verb: cp. Il. 8.108 “οὕς ποτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ Αἰνείαν ἑλόμην ῀ ἀφειλόμην”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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