^{page 125 note 1} See Tanner, R. G.C.R. lxxx (1966), 259–261.Google Scholar

^{page 125 note 2} C.R. lxxii (1958), 201–204.Google Scholar

^{page 125 note 3} The other objection (230–2), viz. the possibility that the murderer may be a foreigner (living in Thebes, of course), is introduced solely for the purpose of dramatic irony. Oedipus himself is the (seeming) ‘alien from an alien land’. Cf. 449–54.

^{page 125 note 4} In his postscript, art. cit. p. 261.

^{page 126 note 1} For μήτε … τινε = cf. Plato, Phaedo 57 a καὶ γὰρ οὔτε τῶν πολιτῶν Φλειασίων οὐδεὶς πάνυ τι ἐπιχωριάζει τἐ νῦν Ἀθήναζε οὔτε τις ξένος ἀφῖκται κτλ. where οὔτε τις ξένος = οὔτε ξένος οὐδείς.