καὶ γὰρ οὖν, for indeed: cp. 771 “εὖ γὰρ οὖν”, O. C. 980 “οὐ γὰρ οὖν”, ib. 985 “ἀλλ᾽ ἓν γὰρ οὖν.” ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην, I accuse her, βουλεῦσαι ἴσον τοῦδε τάφου, of having had an equal share in plotting this burial. For the inf. after “ἐπαιτιᾶσθαι” cp. El. 603 “ὃν πολλὰ δή με σοὶ τρέφειν μιάστορα ι ἐπῃτιάσω”. Aristoph. Vesp. 1446 “Αἴσωπον οἱ Δελφοί ποτε...φιάλην ἐπῃτιῶντο κλέψαι”. Plat. Critias 120C “εἴ τίς τι παραβαίνειν αὐτῶν αἰτιῷτό τινα”. For the substantival ἴσον with gen., cp. Eur. Ion 818 “ὁμοῖος εἶναι τῆς τύχης τ᾽ ἴσον φέρειν”: id. Ph. 547“δωμάτων ἔχων ἴσον”.—Another construction is possible: “ἴσον ἐπαιτιῶμαι κείνην τοῦδε τοῦ τάφου, βουλεῦσαι”: ‘I charge her equally with this burial,—i.e. with plotting it.’ The constr. with the gen. is frequent ( Aesch. PV 974 “ὴ̂ κἀμὲ γάρ τι ξυμφορᾶς ἐπαιτιᾷ”;): the objection here is that the epexegetic infin. “βουλεῦσαι”, requiring a case different from that governed by “ἐπαιτιῶμαι”, ought to come last: cp. Plat. Crito 52B “οὐδ᾽ ὲπιθυμία σε ἄλλης πόλεως οὐδ᾽ ἄλλων νόμων ἔλαβεν εἰδέναι”: Eur. Med. 1399 “χρῄζω στόματος ι παίδων ὁ τάλας προσπτύξασθαι”. In O. T. 644 “εἴ σέ τι ι δέδρακ᾽, ὀλοίμην, ὧν ἐπαιτιᾷ με δρᾶν, ὧν” might represent either (a) “τούτων ὧν, δρᾶν” being epexegetic, or (b) “τούτων ἅ” (acc. governed by “δρᾶν”); the latter is simplest. βουλεῦσαι, of plotting mischief, as Tr. 807 “τοιαῦτα...πατρὶ βουλεύσασ᾽ ἐμῷ”: Ai. 1055 “στρατῷ...βουλεύσας φόνον”.
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