Νιόβα, σὲ δ̓, “κ.τ.λ.”: for this “δέ”, cp. O. T. 1097（“Φοῖβε, σοὶ δὲ”). By θεόν Electra means “μακαρτάτην”: cp. Sappho's “φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θεοῖσιν”. Niobe is happy in the highest, the divine, sense, because, by her perennial grief, she is true to the memory of those whom she has lost. ἅτ̓, fem. of the epic relat. “ὅς τε”: so the neut. “ὅ τε” in Tr. 824. ἐν τάφῳ πετραίῳ: the stone into which Niobe was turned on Mount Sipylus is her ‘rocky tomb’: see nn. on Ant. 825 f. “τὰν κισσὸς ὡς ἀτενὴς” | “πετραία βλάστα δάμασεν”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VI: The Electra. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1894.
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