CH
1091
Menelaüs, make not thy philosophy
A platform whence to insult the valiant dead.
Ajax. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
Ajax. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906))
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
mvp-comment-634-1 ὑποστήσας 1
mvp-comment-634-2 ἐν θανοῦσιν 2
mvp-comment-634-3
The dramatic function of a Chorus required that these Salaminian sailors, while loyal to Ajax, should recognise the sound elements in the speech which they have heard. Menelaüs has rightly condemned the
1091. mvp-comment-699-1 γνώμας ὑποστήσας σοφάς] 'After laying a ground-work of wise maxims.' Cp. Pind. Pyth. 4. 241-3, πραὺν δ' Ἰάσων | μαλθακᾷ φωνᾷ ποτιστάζων ὅαρον | βάλλετο κρηπίδα σοφῶν ἐπέων. This line has no caesura.
1092. mvp-comment-700-1 'Proceed thereupon to be guilty of insolence towards the dead.' For ἐν θανοῦσιν ὑβριστής, cp. infr. 1315, ἐν ἐμοὶ θρασύς.