στήσειε: the optat. (instead of “ὃν ἂν στήσῃ”) puts the case in the most general way: any one whom she might conceivably appoint. Hence this optat. suits “γνῶμαι”: cp. 1032: Tr. 92 “τό γ᾽ εὖ ι πράσσειν, ἐπεὶπύθόιτο, κέρδοσἐμπολᾷ”: O.T. 315 (n.), ib. 979. καὶ τἀναντία, i.e. “καὶ μεγάλα καὶ ἄδικα”. So oft. in euphemisms, Thuc. 4.62 “ἀγαθὸν ἢ...τὰ ἐναντία”: Plat. Rep. 472C “εὐδαιμονίας τε πέρι καὶ τοῦ ἐναντίου”. Cp. Leutsch Paroem. App. 1. 100“κρεισσόνων γὰρ καὶ δίκαια κἄδικ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀκούειν”: and the verse cited by schol. on Aesch. PV 75 “δοῦλε, δεσποτῶν ἄκουε καὶ δίκαια κἄδικα”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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