Sophocles Ajax 1244

ed. Lewis Campbell

ἀλλ᾽ αἰὲν ἡμᾶς ἢ κακοῖς βαλεῖτέ που

Ajax. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

Current edition Experimental

Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Greek) (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1264 focus
lerntet ihr doch beide weisen Sinnes sein!
Nichts Andres kann ich rathen, das euch besser sei.

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-734-1 κακοῖς βαλεῖτε 1

mvp-comment-734-2 σὺν δόλῳ 2

mvp-comment-734-3 κεντήσεθ’ 3

mvp-comment-734-4 οἱ λελειμμένοι 4

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

1244-1245. mvp-comment-795-1 'But you (1) that are left' ('or (2) who are distanced') 'will either, I suppose, assail us with guileful woundings' (as Ajax did) 'or pelt us with abuse' (as you have now been doing). που is to be taken with the whole sentence, but has special reference to the suspicion expressed in σὺν δόλῳ κεντήσεθ᾽. οἱ λελειμμένοι (1) marks the correspondence between the supposed action of Ajax' surviving relatives and his own. The implied menace points through Teucer at Eurysaces. Cp. Shak. Macbeth, 3. 4. 'There the grown serpent lies; the worm, that's fled, | Hath nature that in time will venom breed, | No teeth for the present.' Or (2) οἱ λελειμμένοι resumes ἡσσημένοις, “You that are beaten in the race,' adding point to the suggestion of wounding from behind. See also l. 1249.