Sophocles Ajax 1185

ed. Lewis Campbell

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τίς ἄρα νέατος ἐς πότε λήξει πολυπλάγκτων
1185
ἐτέων ἐπέων ἐτέων ἀριθμὸς
τὰν ἄπαυστον αἰὲν ἐμοὶ
δορυσσοήτων δορυσσόντων
μόχθων ἄταν ἐπάγων
ἀν' ἀερώδεα Τρωΐαν ἀν' εὐρώδη Τρωΐαν ἀνὰ τὴν Τρωΐαν ἀνὰ τὰν Τρωΐαν
1190
δύστανον ὄνειδος Ἑλλάνων;
ἀντ. α΄.

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.

Editions (3)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 1197-1394 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 1185-1222 focus
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1185-1222 focus
Translations (5)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1199 focus
No better hope for either can I frame.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1185 focus
Endet es nie? I wann
1140
Erste Strophe.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1192 focus
Prepare some hollow fosse for the remains
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1185 focus
When will the last revolving year
1185
Of all this numerous train
1185
Slow wandering in its course appear
'Midst ills I here sustain ?..
Toils rise on toils, and woes on woes,
The wasteful war around us glows,
And misery haunts this place.
The hateful walls of Troy around,,
1190
Unhappy Greece, what hast thou found,
1190
But ruin and disgrace?...
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1185-1220 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-696-1 νέατος 1 νέατος 2

mvp-comment-696-2 πολυπλάγκτων 3

mvp-comment-697-1 τὰν ἄπαυστον 4

mvp-comment-698-1 δορυσσοήτων 5 δορυσσόων 6 δορυσσῶν 7

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀν τὰν εὐρώδεα Τρωΐαν 8 ἀν 9

mvp-comment-700-1 δύστανον ὄνειδος Ἑλλάνων 10

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

1185. mvp-comment-760-1 'When shall be the end, and what the number of the restless years of exile?' ἐς πότε λήξει is rather an amplification than a parenthesis. The simpler expression would be either τίς νέατος ἔσται ἀριθμός, or, ἐς πότε λήξει ὁ ἀριθμός. But νέατος is already redundant, and this gives rise to the further expansion. πολυπλάγκτων is put by hypallage or condensation for τοῦ ἐμὲ πολλὰ πλαγχθῆναι, sc. ἀπ᾿ οἴκου.

1187. mvp-comment-761-1 The corruption of the word δορυσσοήτων into δορυσσόντων in most MSS. is natural enough, although there is no such participle, and the adjective, which is more expressive as well as more rhythmical, agrees in metre with the antistrophe.

1190. mvp-comment-762-1 ἀν᾿ ἀερώδεα Τρωΐαν, G. Wolff's conjecture, founded on the scholion σκοτεινὴν καὶ ἀερώδη τοῖς Ἕλλησι, at least gives a possible sense and meaning. The contrast between the misty Hellespont and the bright air of Salamis and Athens is a natural topic of complaint. Cp. infr. 1208, 9, ἀεὶ πυκιναῖς δρόσοις | τεγγόμενος κόμας. Although Τρωΐα for Τροία does not occur elsewhere in Sophocles, it is acknowledged as the Pindaric form (Schndw. Pind. Ol. 2. 145). The interpolation ἀνὰ τάν may be partly due to ἄταν preceding. (Hermann thinks εὐρώδη sound, in the sense of εὐρεῖαν, —'wide,' and so 'desolate,'—but admits that either strophe or antistrophe is corrupt. Dind. reads, ἀν᾿ εὐρώδη Τροίαν, altering the antistrophe. Seyffert's conj., ἄνατον εὐρυεδεῖ Τροίᾳ, 'Doing no harm to broad-based Troy,' is very ingenious.)

1191. mvp-comment-763-1 ὄνειδος is either (1) in apposition with the whole sentence; or (2) with Τρωΐαν.