Sophocles Ajax 1417

ed. Lewis Campbell

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mvp-comment-843-1 [ Αἴαντος, ὅτ’ ἦν, τότε φωνῶ 1

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1417. mvp-comment-905-1 [Αίαντος.. φωνῶ] 'Than Ajax, I speak of the time when he was in life.' This line is open to question, chiefly on the metrical ground of the awkwardness of closing a system of marching anapaests with two paroemiacs. For ὅτ᾽ ἦν, cp. Eur. Fr. 313 (the shade of Bellerophon is apostrophizing his former self), ἦσθ᾽ εἰς θεοὺς μὲν εὐσεβής, ὅτ᾽ ἦσθ', ἀεί, κ.τ.λ.