ξυμπονήσεις is the more general word,—‘co-operate’; ξυνεργάσει, the more explicit,—‘help to accomplish the deed.’ ποῖόν τι κινδύνευμα, cognate acc. to the verbs in 41: cp. O. C. 344 “κακὰ ι ὑπερπονεῖτον”, n. Read “ποῦ γνώμης...εἶ” (from “εἶναι”): cp. El. 390 “ποῦ ποτ᾽ εἶ φρενῶν”. The question between ποῦ and ποῖ here is one of sense, not of idiom. “ποῖ γνώμης ...εἶ” (from “ἰέναι”) would mean, ‘to what thought will you have recourse?’ Cp. O. C. 170 “ποῖ τις φροντίδος ἔλθῃ”; (n.), Tr. 705 “οὐκ ἔχω...ποῖ γνώμης πέσω”. But the meaning here is, ‘what can you be thinking of?’
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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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