εὐφημίαν refers to the ominous “ἐστερημένην”: cp. Ai.361 f. “ΑΙ....ἀλλά με συνδάϊξον”. | “ΧΟ. εὔφημα φώνει.—καταστεφῆ”, with a wreath of laurel: cp. O. T.83 n. πρὸς χαρὰν λόγων refers to “καταστεφῆ”: ‘in view of (suitably to) joyous news.’ Brunck's reading, “πρὸς χάριν λόγων”, would be weaker (‘on account of his tidings’).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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