ἔλειπεν (cr. n.) is confirmed by metre, since every other v. of this epode has anacrusis, which ἔλιπεν would exclude. For the intrans. “λείπω”, cp. Eur. H. F. 133“τὸ δὲ κακοτυχὲς οὐ λέλοιπεν ἐκ τέκνων”: Helen. 1156 “οὔποτ᾽ ἔρις” | “λείψει κατ᾽ ἀνθρώπων πόλεις”. And “ἕλειπεν” in turn confirms οἴκου as against οἴκους. For πω suits the imperf. in this sense (‘was never yet absent from the house’), but would require the aor. if the sense were, ‘has never yet left the house.’ For the sing. “οἴκου” (=family), cp. 978.
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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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