Sophocles Ajax 225

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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I have seen ere now a man of doughty tongue
Urge sailors in foul weather to unmoor,
Who, caught in the sea-misery by and by,
Lay voiceless, muffled in his cloak, and suffered
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Who would of the sailors over trample him
Even so methinks thy truculent mouth ere long
Shall quench its outcry, when this little cloud
Breaks forth on thee with the full tempest’s might.

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.) — 215-257 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 214-262 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 225 focus
οἴμοι ὠίμοι οἴμοι ὤμοι, φοβοῦμαι τὸ προσέρπον, περίφαντος ἁνὴρ ἀνὴρ
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Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 214-262 focus
Translations (4)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 221 focus
Ha, welchen Ruf offenbarst du, Frau, von dem grimmigen Mann,
Ha, schrecklich, unentrinnbar!
Ruchtbar gemacht von den Fürsten des Danaerheers,
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Mehrt ihn die stets wachsende Sage.
Bang ahn' ich, bang, was mir herannaht! Vor den Augen Aller
Erschlägt ihn auch die wahnsinnige Hand, die eben
Mit bluttriefendem Stahle die Heerden mordet' und die Hirten.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 225 focus
Ulysses
What words 1 For if he heard the same from
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thee,
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I blame him not.
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English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 225 focus
Teucer
By their grace
Preserved, dishonour not the gods.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 214-260 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-672-1 ναύτας ἐφορμήσαντα … τὸ | πλεῖν 1 vαύταις 2 ναύτας 3

mvp-comment-673-1 ᾧ φθέγμ’ ἂν οὐκ ἂν ηὗρες 4 ἄν 5 ᾧ 6

mvp-comment-673-2 ἐν κακῷ χειμῶνος 7

mvp-comment-673-3 εἴχετ’ 8

mvp-comment-673-4 ὑφ’ εἵματος 9

mvp-comment-673-5 κρυφείς 10

mvp-comment-674-1 πατεῖν παρεῖχε 11

mvp-comment-675-1 καὶ δὲ καὶ τὸ σὸν … στόμα 12

mvp-comment-675-2 λάβρον στόμα 13

mvp-comment-675-3 σμικροῦ νέφους … ἐκπνεύσας 14

mvp-comment-676-1 τὴν … βοήν 15

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

1142-1158. mvp-comment-736-1 These two speeches are obviously antiphonal or antistrophic in a general sense, and yet the latter exceeds the former by a line. This may warn us against requiring exact antistrophic correspondence in other iambic passages, where the absence of it has occasioned doubt.

1143. mvp-comment-737-1 τὸ πλεῖν] For the article with the epexegetic infinitive, cp. O. T. 1416, 17, πάρεσθ᾽ ὅδε | Κρέων τὸ πράσσειν καὶ τὸ βουλεύειν.

1144. mvp-comment-738-1 For ἂν reduplicated, see Essay on L. § 27. p. 46 e. In the present instance it adds liveliness to φθέγμα, which is to be taken closely with, i.e. ᾧ φθέγμα γενόμενον ἂν οὐκ ἂν εὗρες. ἐνεῦρες has been conjectured, but this compound is not found elsewhere, and no change is needed.

1146. mvp-comment-739-1 παρέχειν is used absolutely with dative and infinitive, as frequently in Plato. The expression is proverbial: cp. Plato, Theaet. 191 Α, ἐὰν δὲ πάντῃ ἀπορήσωμεν, ταπεινωθέντες, οἶμαι, τῷ λόγῳ παρέξομεν ὡς ναυτιῶντες πατεῖν τε καὶ χρῆσθαι ὅ τι ἂν βούληται.

1147-1149. mvp-comment-740-1 The second accusative, τὴν πολλὴν βοήν, is added as a resumption of καὶ τὸ σὸν λάβρον στόμα, which is a sort of 'pendent' accusative.