Sophocles Ajax 1395

ed. Lewis Campbell

μὴ τῷ θανόντι τοῦτο δυσχερὲς ποιῶ ποιῶ(?) ποιῶ πονῶ or ποθῶ ποῶ·
1395

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

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1395. mvp-comment-891-1 Cp. Od. 11. 543, 563. Teucer fears that the spirit of Ajax will be offended if Odysseus stands beside his grave. In Herodotus, 5. 67, the dead hero Adrastus is supposed by Cleisthenes of Sicyon to be disgusted by his adoption of the dead hero Melanippus, son of Astacus.