Minerva
What ho !
Ajax. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
Ajax. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759))
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mvp-comment-72-1 οὗτος 1
mvp-comment-72-2 Αἴας 2
mvp-comment-72-3 τῆς συμμάχου 3
mvp-comment-73-1
Ajax enters from the tent, carrying the heavy, blood-stained thong, with which he has been scourging the cattle (241 f.). Hence the title
mvp-comment-73-2 Διογενὲς τέκνον 4
mvp-comment-74-1 παρέστης 5
mvp-comment-74-2 στέψω 6
mvp-comment-74-3 λαφύροις 7 παγχρύσοις 8
mvp-comment-75-1 ἐκεῖνο 9
mvp-comment-75-2 ἔγχος 10
90. mvp-comment-69-1 Athena affects to rally Ajax for disregarding her help on this occasion, as he had before scornfully rejected it. Cp. infr. 774, 5. This helps to bring out his unconsciousness of her displeasure. τῆς συμμάχου] Cp. l. 60.
91. mvp-comment-70-1 Ajax enters with the scourge in his hand. It is from this scene that the play takes its name of Alaς μαστιγοφόρος. ll. 91-3 may be contrasted with 176 foll. Ajax is not by nature impious, although in the pride of his youth he may have been guilty of impiety; but he speaks to the goddess with the blunt familiarity of a comrade in arms. καί in l. 92 has an encouraging, almost patronizing, sound.
93. mvp-comment-71-1 στέψω] 'I will grace' or 'honour' thee.
94. mvp-comment-72-1 ἐκεῖνο] 'That other thing.' For a similar emphatic use of the pronoun (with comic exaggeration), cp. Aristoph. Nub. 655-7, οὐ γάρ, ᾠζυρέ, τούτων ἐπιθυμῶ μανθάνειν οὐδέν. ΣΩ. τί δαί; | ΣΤ. ἐκεῖν ἐκεῖνο, τὸν ἀδικώτερον λόγον.