Sophocles Ajax 70

Lewis Campbell (Translator)

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How first began the assault of misery?
Tell us the trouble, for we share the pain.

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

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Editions (4)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 1-171 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 1-171 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 70 focus
αὐγὰς ἀπείρξω ἀπείργω ἀπειργω σὴν πρόσοψιν εἰσιδεῖν.
70
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1-171 focus
Translations (4)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 74 focus
Was thust du, Pallas? Nimmermehr ruf' ihn heraus -
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 70 focus
Chorus
He seems of perfect mind — open the doors,
Let him come forth. Who knows but sight of us
May keep him so.
345
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 70 focus
Ajax
Ah me, unhappy me!
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1-170 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-181-1 τίς γάρ 1

mvp-comment-181-2 προσέπτατο 2

mvp-comment-181-3 From the Homeric

ἔπτατο
( Il. 13. 592 , etc.) Tragedy borrows this non-thematic aor. (of which the active form would be
ἔπτην
): cp. 693 . The aor. of
πέτομαι
in Attic Comedy and prose is usu.
ἐπτόμην
(see Veitch, Irreg. Verbs, 2nd ed., p. 530): and of this we have the inf.
πτέσθαι
in O. T. 17 ,—again in accord with Homeric precedent ( Il. 4. 126
ἐπιπτέσθαι
).

mvp-comment-181-4 τύχας 3 δήλωσον 4 τύχαις 5 ξυναλγοῦσιν 6

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

282-283. mvp-comment-201-1 'In what wise lighted on you the commencement of the trouble? Tell us, who grieve with you at the misfortune, what it is.' τύχας, continuing the notion of κακοῦ, is governed either (1) both of δήλωσον and of ξυναλγοῦσιν, or (2) of ξυναλγοῦσιν only.