Sophocles Ajax 1185

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

Endet es nie? I wann
1140
Erste Strophe.

Ajax. Sophocles. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

Current edition Experimental

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) (German) (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (4)
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 (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1185 focus
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΄.
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1185-1222 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1199 focus
No better hope for either can I frame.
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-670-1 τόνδ’ ἐστὶν οὐχὶ θαπτέον 1

mvp-comment-671-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντακούσει τοῦτον ὡς 2 τοῦθ’ ἕν 3

mvp-comment-671-2 τεθάψεται 4

mvp-comment-672-1 ναύτας ἐφορμήσαντα … τὸ | πλεῖν 5 vαύταις 6 ναύτας 7

mvp-comment-673-1 ᾧ φθέγμ’ ἂν οὐκ ἂν ηὗρες 8 ἄν 9 ᾧ 10

mvp-comment-673-2 ἐν κακῷ χειμῶνος 11

mvp-comment-673-3 εἴχετ’ 12

mvp-comment-673-4 ὑφ’ εἵματος 13

mvp-comment-673-5 κρυφείς 14

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

1141. mvp-comment-735-1 τεθάψεται] The future perfect has a peremptory effect.

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.