τῶνδε, masc., the malcontents (for ἐκ, cp. 63). τούτους, the watchers of the corpse: the pronouns joined as in 39 (n.). εἰργάσθαι is best taken with ἐξεπίσταμαι: cp. 1092 “ἐπιστάμεσθα...αὐτὸν...λακεῖν”. The inf., instead of the partic., with “ἐπίσταμαι”, seems unknown in Attic prose, except, of course, where the sense is ‘to know how.’ Cp. 472. The inf. might, indeed, depend on παρηγμένους, as “ἐπάγω” (to induce) oft. takes an inf.: but (a) as a matter of fact, an infin. seems not to occur after “παράγω” in this sense: and (b) it may be noticed that Attic idiom often prefers the form, ‘induced by them, he did it,’ to, ‘he was induced by them to do it’: e.g. Xen. Mem. 4.8.5 “πολλοὺς...λόγῳ παραχθέντες ἀπέκτειναν”: Dem. or. 5 § 10 “οἷς ἐπαχθέντες ὑμεῖς...προεῖσθε Φωκέας”. For this participial expression of the leading idea, see n. on O. C. 1038.
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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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