Sophocles Ajax 178

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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TEUCER
(). Alas, undone!

Ajax. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.

Current edition Experimental

English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (4)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 172-201 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 172-200 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 178 focus
ψευσθεῖσ᾽, *ἀδώροις ψευσθεῖσα δώροις εἴτ' ἐλαφαβολίαις εἴτ᾿ ἐλαφαβολείαις εἴτ᾽ ἐλαφαβολίαις εἴτ᾿ ἐλαφηβολίαις.
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 172-200 focus
Translations (4)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 182 focus
Nie doch in früherer Zeit, Telamonier,
Hast du dich also verirrt, wider Heerden loszugeh'n;
Dir schlugen wohl die Götter den Geist: doch es halte
Das üble Volksgerede Zeus und Phöbos fern!
Wenn im Geheimen indeß
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Die Lüg' ersann der mächtigen Könige Groll 1
Und jener arge Sprosse von Sisyphos' Blut:
Nicht länger birg dich, Herr, in den Zelten am Meer,
Nicht den Ruf, den schmähenden, wecke!
Schlußgesang.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 178 focus
Menelaus
Because it is my will^ and his who leads
The Grecian host.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 178 focus
Tecmessa
It is a sight of horror: I will wrap
This robe around him, with its ample folds
Covering his corse: for none, that was his friend,
Can bear to see him from his nostrils breathe
The purple gore, and from the blackening wound
By his own hand inflicted. Wretched me,
What can I do? What friend will bear him hence?'
Where now is Teucer? Hither should he bend
His steps, how opportunely would he come
The corse of his fallen brother to compose!
Was thine! What art thou now? Such, that thy foes
Would pity thee, and o'er thee drop a tear.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 172-200 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-566-1 ἄτης … ἐπίσκοπον 1

mvp-comment-566-2 μέλος 2

mvp-comment-567-1 ξύναιμον ὄμμ’ 3

mvp-comment-568-1 ἠμπόληκας 4 ἠμπόληκά ς’ 5

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

976. mvp-comment-629-1 'Uttering a loud strain that hath regard to this calamity:' i. e. The sudden cry of Teucer shows that his eye has been arrested by the dead body and the group surrounding it. (Schol. οὐχ ἡμαρτηκὸς τῆς συμφορᾶς, ἀλλ᾽ ἐστοχασμένον). He, like Tecmessa, supr. 891, 2, is at first dimly seen in the shade. ἐπίσκοπον is used nearly as in Aesch. Eum. 903, ὁποῖα νίκης μὴ κακῆς ἐπίσκοπα.

977. mvp-comment-630-1 ὦ ξύναιμον ὄμμ᾿ ἐμοί] ‘Brother of my love.' ὄμμα, from meaning 'an object of sight,' comes to mean 'an object of regard'—'one with whom we see eye to eye,' and its addition here gives a tone of affectionateness to the expression. See Essay on L. § 54. P. 99 a; and cp. especially, Phil. 171, μηδὲ σύντροφον ὄμμ᾽ ἔχων.

978. mvp-comment-631-1 'Hast thou then done as prevalent Rumour tells?' ἠμπόληκας, 'Hast managed thine affairs, hast done thy business?' See L. and S. s. v. ἐμπολάω, ΙΙ. 2. The phrase at first sight seems hardly tragic; and ἠμπόληκά σ' (Herm.), i. e. 'Have I sold thy life,' by my delay? is at least plausible. But again, ἐμπολᾶν in the former sense, as an expression of common life, may have lost all figurative associations. Cp. Aesch. Eum. 631, 2, ἠμποληκότα | τὰ πλεῖστ᾽ ἀμείνον'. And even retaining ἠμπόληκας in an absolute sense, as in the beginning of this note, the word implies blame in so far as Teucer refers not only to the death of Ajax, but to his loss of honour.