ὑπηρετοίην is a certain correction of the MS. ὑπηρετοίμην. The midd. is not found in classical writers, though it was frequent later. Metre proves the active form in five of the seven places where Soph. uses the verb (996; Soph. O. T. 217; Soph. O. C. 283; Soph. Ph. 15, Soph. Ph. 990): only here and in Soph. Ph. 1024 is the midd. even possible. Blaydes ingeniously suggests that “ὑπηρετοίμην” may have come from “ὑπηρετμοίην. ὑπηρετμεῖν”, however, does not occur.— δαίμονι, the god who has brought him home (cp. 1266 ff.). Her brother is the “καθαρτὴς πρὸς θεῶν ὡρμημένος” (70).
