Sophocles Ajax 1350

ed. Lewis Campbell

τόν τοι τύραννον εὐσεβεῖν οὐ ῥᾴδιον.
1350

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)) — 1346 focus
Und du, Odysseus, streitest so für den mit mir?

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-800-1 τόν τοι τύραννον εὐσεβεῖν οὐ ῥᾴδιον 1

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

1350. mvp-comment-865-1 'A monarch cannot always observe the rule of piety.' Agamemnon, like the Athenian envoys at Melos, has recourse to 'necessity, the tyrant's plea.'