Sophocles Ajax 1199

mvp-comment-143-1 Φρυγίου Τελεύταντος ¹

mvp-comment-143-2 Lobeck remarks that the father of Tecmessa is called Teuthras by Malela and others, Tethras by Cedrenus, and Teuthas by Tzetzes.

mvp-comment-144-1 λέχος ²

mvp-comment-144-2 σε … στέρξας ἀνέχει ³

mvp-comment-145-1 ὑπείποις ⁴

mvp-comment-146-1 λέγω ⁵

mvp-comment-146-2 θανάτῳ … ἴσον ⁶

mvp-comment-147-1 μανίᾳ γὰρ ⁷ ἡμὶν ⁸

mvp-comment-147-2 νύκτερος ⁹

mvp-comment-147-3 ἀπελωβήθη ¹⁰

mvp-comment-148-1 τοιαῦτ’ ¹¹ αἱμοβαφῆ ¹²

mvp-comment-148-2 χρηστήρια ¹³

mvp-comment-149-1 A strophe, to which vv. 245—256 form the antistrophe. For the metres, see Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-149-2 ἀνέρος … ἀγγελίαν ¹⁴

mvp-comment-149-3 αἴθονος ¹⁵

mvp-comment-149-4 The v.l. αἴθοπος ¹⁶ ο ¹⁷

mvp-comment-149-5 ἄτλατον οὐδὲ φευκτάν ¹⁸

mvp-comment-150-1 τῶν μεγάλων Δαναῶν ¹⁹

mvp-comment-150-2 κλῃζομέναν ²⁰

mvp-comment-151-1 ὁ μέγας μῦθος ²¹

mvp-comment-151-2 ἀέξει ²²

mvp-comment-152-1 περίφαντος ²³

mvp-comment-153-1 παραπλάκτῳ ²⁴

mvp-comment-153-2 συγκατακτὰς ²⁵ κελαινοῖς ²⁶

mvp-comment-154-1 ξίφεσιν ²⁷

mvp-comment-154-2 ἱππονώμας ²⁸ βοτῆρας ²⁹ βοτά ³⁰ ἱππονόμους ³¹

mvp-comment-155-1 ἄρα ³²

mvp-comment-155-2 ἤλυθε ³³

mvp-comment-156-1 ὧν ³⁴ ποίμνην ³⁵ τὴν μὲν ³⁶ τὰ δὲ ³⁷

mvp-comment-156-2 ἔσω ³⁸ ἔσω σφάζε ³⁹

mvp-comment-156-3 ἐπὶ γαίας ⁴⁰

mvp-comment-156-4 πλευροκοπῶν ⁴¹

mvp-comment-157-1 ἀργίποδας ⁴²

mvp-comment-157-2 If the two rams are the two Atreidae, then Odysseus is ignored here. This would be consistent both with vv. 97— 110 and with 298—306. The flogging of the second ram here would correspond with the words

in 299 f. Then came the colloquy of Ajax with Athena (301); after which, he slowly regained his sanity,—before he had inflicted the lash upon Odysseus. That the ‘two rams’ are here the royal brethren might be suggested by the analogy of the two eagles in Ag. 115. On the other hand, the special ferocity with which Ajax treats the second ram rather indicates that it represents Odysseus. There would be no point in so distinguishing Menelaüs from Agamemnon. On the whole, it seems most probable that the poet meant Agamemnon and Odysseus, but was careless of strict consistency with vv. 97—110.

mvp-comment-158-1 κεφαλὴν καὶ γλῶσσαν ἄκραν ⁴³

mvp-comment-159-1 ῥιπτεῖ ⁴⁴

mvp-comment-159-2 ὀρθὸν ἄνω … δήσας ⁴⁵

mvp-comment-159-3 κίονι ⁴⁶

mvp-comment-160-1 ἱπποδέτην ῥυτῆρα ⁴⁷

mvp-comment-161-1 λιγυρᾷ ⁴⁸

mvp-comment-162-1 κακὰ δεννάζων ῥήμαθ’ ⁴⁹

mvp-comment-162-2 δαίμων ⁵⁰

mvp-comment-163-1 ἤδη τοι κρᾶτα ⁵¹ ἀνδρὸς ⁵² ἀνέρος ⁵³ τοι ⁵⁴ κρᾶτα ⁵⁵ κάρα ⁵⁶ ἐδήλωσας ⁵⁷ ἔδειξας ⁵⁸ ἔφηνας ⁵⁹ ἐδήλους ⁶⁰ τοι ⁶¹ ἤτοι ⁶²

mvp-comment-163-2 κρᾶτα … κρυψάμενον ⁶³

mvp-comment-163-3 ποδοῖν κλοπὰν ἀρέσθαι ⁶⁴ κλοπὰν ⁶⁵

mvp-comment-164-1 θοὸν ⁶⁶ εἰρεσίας ⁶⁷ ζυγὸν ⁶⁸

mvp-comment-164-2 ναῒ μεθεῖναι ⁶⁹

mvp-comment-165-1 τοίας ⁷⁰

mvp-comment-165-2 ἐρέσσουσιν ⁷¹

mvp-comment-165-3 δικρατεῖς Ἀτρεῖδαι ⁷²

mvp-comment-166-1 πεφόβημαι ⁷³

mvp-comment-166-2 λιθόλευστον Ἄρη ⁷⁴

mvp-comment-166-3 The accus. is, in the first place, object to πεφόβημαι ⁷⁵ ξυναλγεῖν ⁷⁶ τυπείς ⁷⁷

mvp-comment-166-4 αἶσ’ ἄπλατος ⁷⁸

mvp-comment-167-1 The words λαμπρᾶς ἄτερ στεροπῆς ⁷⁹ λήγει ⁸⁰ ᾄξας ⁸¹

mvp-comment-168-1 οἰκεῖα πάθη ⁸²

mvp-comment-168-2 παραπράξαντος ⁸³

mvp-comment-168-3 ὑποτείνει ⁸⁴

mvp-comment-169-1 πέπαυται ⁸⁵ εὐτυχεῖν ⁸⁶

mvp-comment-169-2 φρούδου γὰρ ⁸⁷ λόγος ⁸⁸

mvp-comment-170-1 πότερα ⁸⁹

mvp-comment-171-1 The words κοινὸς ἐν κοινοῖσι ⁹⁰

mvp-comment-172-1 τὸ … διπλάζον ⁹¹

mvp-comment-173-1 Though οὐ νοσοῦντος ⁹² οὐ νοσοῦντες ⁹³

mvp-comment-173-2 ἀτώμεσθα ⁹⁴

mvp-comment-174-1 πῶς … ὅπως ⁹⁵

mvp-comment-175-1 οἷσιν εἴχετ’ ἐν κακοῖς ⁹⁶

mvp-comment-175-2 φρονοῦντας ⁹⁷ βλέποντας ⁹⁸ κακοῖς ⁹⁹

mvp-comment-176-1 κἀνέπνευσε ¹⁰⁰ ἔληξε ¹⁰¹

mvp-comment-177-1 Instead of κεῖνος ¹⁰²

mvp-comment-177-2 πᾶς ¹⁰³

mvp-comment-177-3 ἐλήλαται ¹⁰⁴

mvp-comment-178-1 ἆῤ ¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-178-2 δὶς τός’ ¹⁰⁶ ἐξ ἁπλῶν ¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-179-1 δέδοικα μὴ … ἥκῃ ¹⁰⁸ ἥκει ¹⁰⁹ ἥκῃ ¹¹⁰ ἥκοι ¹¹¹

mvp-comment-179-2 πῶς γάρ ¹¹²

mvp-comment-179-3 εἰ πεπαυμένος ¹¹³

mvp-comment-179-4 μηδέν τι ¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-180-1 ὡς ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-181-1 τίς γάρ ¹¹⁶

mvp-comment-181-2 προσέπτατο ¹¹⁷

mvp-comment-181-3 From the Homeric

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

mvp-comment-181-4 τύχας ¹¹⁸ δήλωσον ¹¹⁹ τύχαις ¹²⁰ ξυναλγοῦσιν ¹²¹

mvp-comment-182-1 κεῖνος γὰρ ¹²²

mvp-comment-182-2 ἄκρας νυκτός ¹²³

mvp-comment-183-1 λαμπτῆρες ¹²⁴

mvp-comment-183-2 For this mode of indicating the time, cp. Her. 7. 215

: Propert. 3. 8. 1

ad extremas..lucernas

: Aul. Gellius 3. 2

post primam facem.

mvp-comment-184-1 ἔγχος ¹²⁵

mvp-comment-184-2 ἐξόδους ἕρπειν ¹²⁶

mvp-comment-184-3 κενάς ¹²⁷

mvp-comment-185-1 The general word, ἄκλητος ¹²⁸ οὔτε ¹²⁹

mvp-comment-185-2 ἀφορμᾷς ¹³⁰ πεῖραν ¹³¹

mvp-comment-185-3 σάλπιγγος ¹³²

mvp-comment-185-4 πᾶς εὕδει στρατός ¹³³

mvp-comment-186-1 ὑμνούμενα ¹³⁴

mvp-comment-186-2 γυναιξὶ ¹³⁵

mvp-comment-186-3 κόσμον ¹³⁶

mvp-comment-187-1 μαθοῦς’ ¹³⁷

mvp-comment-187-2 ἐσσύθη ¹³⁸

mvp-comment-188-1 τὰς ἐκεῖ … πάθας ¹³⁹ τύχας ¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-189-1 κύνας βοτῆρας ¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-189-2 εὔερον ¹⁴² εύκερων ¹⁴³

mvp-comment-190-1 ηὐχένιζε ¹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-190-2 ἄνω τρέπων ¹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-190-3 ἔσφαζε ¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-190-4 κἀρράχιζε ¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-190-5 δεσμίους ¹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-190-6 ὥστε ¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-190-7 φῶτας ¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-191-1 ὑπᾴξας ¹⁵¹ ἀπᾴξας ¹⁵² ἐπᾴξας ¹⁵³

mvp-comment-191-2 σκιᾷ τινὶ ¹⁵⁴

mvp-comment-191-3 λόγους ἀνέσπα ¹⁵⁵

mvp-comment-191-4 Ἀτρειδῶν κάτα ¹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-192-1 ἀμφ’ Ὀδυσσεῖ ¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-192-2 συντιθεὶς γέλων πολύν ¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-192-3 γέλων ¹⁵⁹ τ ¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-193-1 ὕβριν ¹⁶¹

mvp-comment-193-2 ἐκτείσαιτο ¹⁶² ἐκτείσοιτο ¹⁶³ αὐτῶν ¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-193-3 ἰών ¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-194-1 ἐπᾴξας ¹⁶⁶ ἀπᾴξας ¹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-194-2 αὖθις … πάλιν ¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-195-1 μόλις πως ¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-196-1 ἄτης ¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-197-1 )θώϋξεν ¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-197-2 ἐρειπίοις ¹⁷² νεκρῶν ¹⁷³ ἀρνείου φόνου ¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-197-3 ἐρειφθεὶς ¹⁷⁵ ἐρεισθεὶς ¹⁷⁶ ἐρειφθεὶς ¹⁷⁷ ἐρειπίοις ¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-198-1 ἀπρὶξ … συλλαβὼν ¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-198-2 ὄνυξι … χερί ¹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-199-1 καὶ τὸν μὲν ἧστο πλεῖστον ¹⁸¹

mvp-comment-200-1 τὰ δείν’ … ἔπη ¹⁸²

mvp-comment-201-1 φανοίην ¹⁸³ ιη ¹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-202-1 ἐν τῷ πράγματος ¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-203-1 The words κἀγώ, φίλοι, δείσασα ¹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-204-1 πρὸς γὰρ κακοῦ τε ¹⁸⁷

mvp-comment-204-2 βαρυψύχου ¹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-204-3 ἐξηγεῖτ’ ¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-205-1 ἀψόφητος … κωκυμάτων ¹⁹⁰ ὑπεστέναζε ¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-205-2 ὀξέων ¹⁹²

mvp-comment-205-3 ταῦρος ὣς βρυχώμενος ¹⁹³ βριμώμενος ¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-206-1 νῦν δ’ ¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-207-1 ἄσιτος ¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-207-2 σιδηροκμῆσιν ¹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-208-1 ὥς τι δρασείων ¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-208-2 δρασείων ¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-209-1 τοιαῦτα ²⁰⁰ πως ²⁰¹

mvp-comment-209-2 καὶ λέγει κὠδύρεται ²⁰² ἥσυχος ²⁰³

mvp-comment-209-3 The verse is rejected by Nauck and others as though it were inconsistent with v. 325, and had been patched up from v. 383. There is no ground for this view. On the other hand, after

in 325, the fear expressed in 326 would be unintelligible, if no reason were subjoined. Bergk, who joins in condemning the verse, allows that Sophocles is usually careful of logical coherence in drama (‘pflegt .. sorgfältig zu motiviren’); but suggests that here the neglect of it might be ‘a mark of the archaic style’ ( Jahr. f. Class. Phil. 97. 378).

mvp-comment-210-1 ἐστάλην ²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-210-2 εἰσελθόντες ²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-211-1 λόγοις ²⁰⁶ φίλοι ²⁰⁷

mvp-comment-212-1 Τελεύταντος ²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-212-2 ἡμῖν ²⁰⁹ λέγεις ²¹⁰

mvp-comment-212-3 διαπεφοιβάσθαι ²¹¹ κακοῖς ²¹²

mvp-comment-213-1 ἰώ μοί μοι ²¹³

mvp-comment-214-1 μᾶλλον ²¹⁴

mvp-comment-214-2 ἢ οὐκ ²¹⁵

mvp-comment-214-3 Αἴαντος, οἵαν ²¹⁶ θωΰσσει ²¹⁷

mvp-comment-215-1 τοῖς πάλαι νοσήμασι ξυνοῦσι ²¹⁸ ξυνοῦσι ²¹⁹

mvp-comment-215-2 παρών ²²⁰

mvp-comment-216-1 ἰὼ παῖ παῖ ²²¹ Τεῦκρον καλῶ ²²²

mvp-comment-216-2 Prof. Campbell understands

as meaning Teucer, whom an elder brother might so address. Tecmessa, at least, did not so take the words.

mvp-comment-217-1 ὤμοι τάλαιν’ ²²³

mvp-comment-217-2 Εὐρύσακες ²²⁴

mvp-comment-217-3 ἀμφὶ σοὶ ²²⁵

mvp-comment-217-4 ποῦ ποτ’ εἶ ²²⁶

mvp-comment-218-1 Τεῦκρον ²²⁷

mvp-comment-218-2 τὸν εἰσαεὶ … χρόνον ²²⁸ λεηλατήσει ²²⁹

mvp-comment-219-1 ἀνοίγετε ²³⁰

mvp-comment-219-2 αἰδῶ … λάβοι ²³¹

mvp-comment-219-3 κἀπ’ ἐμοὶ ²³² βλέψας ²³³

mvp-comment-220-1 διοίγω ²³⁴

mvp-comment-220-2 πράγη ²³⁵

mvp-comment-220-3 The

is now pushed on through the central door. It was a small stage, but large enough to allow of Ajax being shown surrounded by some of the slaughtered animals. The word in 347, and the language of vv. 351 ff., show that the carnage was represented. The other plays in which Soph <*>es has used the eccyclema are the Antigone (1294, where see n.), and the Electra (1464 f., n.).

mvp-comment-220-4 Ajax, sitting among his victims, and meditating his own destruction, was the subject of a famous picture by Timomachus of Byzantium. Philostratus ( Vit. Apoll. 2. 22 § 5) thus describes it:

[cp. v. 325 ], . The picture was at Cyzicus in 70 B.C. ( Cic. In Verr. 2. 4. 60 ), but was afterwards bought by Julius Caesar for the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome ( N. H. 7. 38 § 126). See Introduction § 20.

mvp-comment-221-1 This kommos serves, like the last (201—262), as a lyric expression of tragic pathos; after which the situation is further developed, as in the former case, by iambic dialogue. But in one respect this kommos differs from its predecessor. In order to bring the mind of Ajax into fuller relief, the lyrics are given to him alone, while the Chorus and Tecmessa speak only trimeters.

mvp-comment-221-2 The structure is as follows:—1st strophe 348—355=1st antistr. 356—363: 2nd str. 364—378=2nd ant. 379—393: 3rd str. 394—411=3rd ant. 412—429. For the metres see Metrical Analysis.

mvp-comment-221-3 ἰὼ φίλοι ναυβάται ²³⁶

mvp-comment-221-4 ἐμμένοντες ²³⁷

mvp-comment-221-5 ὀρθῷ νόμῳ ²³⁸

mvp-comment-222-1 ἴδεσθέ μ’ ²³⁹

mvp-comment-222-2 κῦμα ²⁴⁰ ζάλης ²⁴¹ φοινίας ²⁴²

mvp-comment-222-3 ἀμφίδρομον ²⁴³ κυκλεῖται ²⁴⁴ κυκλοῦται ²⁴⁵

mvp-comment-223-1 οἴμ’ ²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-223-2 ἀφροντίστως ἔχει ²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-224-1 ναΐας ἀρωγὸν τέχνας ²⁴⁸

mvp-comment-225-1 ἅλιον ὃς ἐπέβας ²⁴⁹ ἁλίαν ὃς ἐπέβας ²⁵⁰ ὃς ἁλίαν ἔβας ²⁵¹

mvp-comment-225-2 ὃς ²⁵² γένος ²⁵³

mvp-comment-225-3 ἐπέβας ²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-225-4 ἐλίσσων ²⁵⁵

mvp-comment-226-1 πημονὰν ἐπαρκέσοντ’ ²⁵⁶ ἀπαρκέσοντ’ ²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-226-2 The traditional reading ποιμένων ²⁵⁸ πημονὰν ²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-227-1 ἀλλά ²⁶⁰ με ²⁶¹

mvp-comment-227-2 συνδάϊξον ²⁶²

mvp-comment-228-1 εὔφημα φώνει ²⁶³ κακὸν κακῷ διδοὺς ἄκος ²⁶⁴ τὸ πῆμα τῆς ἄτης ²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-229-1 θρασύν ²⁶⁶ εὐκάρδιον ²⁶⁷ ἄτρεστον ²⁶⁸

mvp-comment-230-1 ἀφόβοις ²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-230-2 δεινὸν χέρας ²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-231-1 οἴμοι γέλωτος ²⁷¹

mvp-comment-232-1 δέσποτ’ ²⁷²

mvp-comment-233-1 οὐκ ἐκτός; οὐκ ἄψορρον ²⁷³ οὐκ ἐκτὸς ἄψορρον ἐκνεμεῖ πόδα ²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-233-2 For ἐκτὸς ²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-233-3 ἄψορρον ²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-233-4 ἐκνεμεῖ ²⁷⁷ ἐκνεμεῖς ²⁷⁸

mvp-comment-234-1 ὦ πρὸς θεῶν ²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-235-1 ὢ δύσμορος ²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-235-2 ὃς ²⁸¹

mvp-comment-235-3 χερὶ μὲν μεθῆκα ²⁸² χερὶ ²⁸³

mvp-comment-235-4 τοὺς ἀλάστορας ²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-235-5 κλυτοῖς ²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-235-6 αἰπολίοις ²⁸⁶

mvp-comment-235-7 ἐρεμνὸν ²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-235-8 αἷμ’ ἔδευσα ²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-236-1 ἐπ’ ἐξειργασμένοις ²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-236-2 οὐ γὰρ γένοιτ’ ἂν ²⁹⁰ ὅπως ²⁹¹

mvp-comment-236-3 For the sentiment, cp. Tr. 742

(n.).

mvp-comment-237-1 πάνθ’ ὁρῶν ²⁹²

mvp-comment-237-2 ἁπάντων τ’ ²⁹³ τ’ ²⁹⁴ δ’ ²⁹⁵ δ’ ²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-237-3 κακῶν ὄργανον ²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-238-1 ἄλημα ²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-239-1 ἦ που ²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-239-2 ἄγεις ³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-240-1 ξὺν τῷ θεῷ ³⁰¹

mvp-comment-240-2 ἵδοιμι ³⁰²

mvp-comment-241-1 μηδὲν· μέγ’ εἴπῃς ³⁰³

mvp-comment-242-1 προπάτωρ ³⁰⁴ πάτερ ³⁰⁵ χεροῖν ³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-242-2 πῶς ἂν … θάνοιμι ³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-243-1 δισσάρχας ³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-243-2 ὀλέσσας ³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-243-3 βασιλῆς ³¹⁰

mvp-comment-243-4 θάνοιμι καὐτός ³¹¹

mvp-comment-244-1 σκότος ³¹² ἔρεβος ³¹³

mvp-comment-244-2 ὡς ἐμοί ³¹⁴

mvp-comment-245-1 ἕλεσθ’ ἕλεσθέ μ’ ³¹⁵

mvp-comment-246-1 γένος ³¹⁶ ὄνασιν ³¹⁷ εἰς ³¹⁸

mvp-comment-246-2 ἄξιος ³¹⁹

mvp-comment-246-3 βλέπειν ³²⁰

mvp-comment-247-1 ἁ Διὸς … θεὸς ³²¹

mvp-comment-247-2 ὀλέθριον ³²² οὔλιον ³²³

mvp-comment-248-1 φύγῃ … μενῶ ³²⁴

mvp-comment-249-1 εἰ τὰ μὲν φθίνει ³²⁵

mvp-comment-249-2 (1) The antistrophic verses, 423—427 (

), appear sound. The changes which have been proposed in them have all been designed to suit some emendation in 405 ff., and would have no probability if verses 423 ff. were considered simply on their own merits.

mvp-comment-249-3 (2) There is only one real discrepancy of metre between the traditional text here and that of the antistrophe; viz., that τοῖσδ’ ³²⁶ τινα ³²⁷ ὁμοῦ πέλας ³²⁸

mvp-comment-249-4 (3) If, then, we assume that the antistrophe is sound, we may conclude that the fault in the strophe lies within the words

. A very slight change will restore the metre, viz. τοιοῖσδ’ ³²⁹ τοῖσδ’ ³³⁰ τοιοῖσδ’ ὁμοῦ βοτοῖς ³³¹

mvp-comment-249-5 (4) Whatever may have been the original form of the words

, it is at least highly probable that their general sense was, ‘If my old renown is perishing.’ This is suggested by the other passages where we find the same sequence of ideas,— i.e., the thought of his past glory closely followed by that of his present disgrace; see (1) 421—427: (2) 437—456: (3) 612—621.

mvp-comment-249-6 (5) Those who believe that the antistrophic verses 423—427 are corrupt have a freer hand for emendation here; and, as will be seen in the Appendix, some of the proposed restorations have been very bold. But such remedies pass into the region of pure guess-work.

mvp-comment-250-1 προσκείμεθα ³³²

mvp-comment-250-2 μώραις ³³³ μωραῖς ³³⁴

mvp-comment-251-1 δίπαλτος ³³⁵

mvp-comment-252-1 φωνεῖν ³³⁶

mvp-comment-252-2 ἔτλη ³³⁷

mvp-comment-253-1 πόροι ἁλίρροθοι ³³⁸ πάραλα ἄντρα ³³⁹

mvp-comment-254-1 νέμος ³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-254-2 As I have noted in writing on the Troad elsewhere, ‘nearly all the plains and hills are more or less well-wooded. Besides the valonia oak, the elm, willow, cypress and tamarisk shrub abound. Lotus, galingale, and reeds are still plentiful, as in Homeric days, about the streams in the Trojan plain.’ ( Encyc. Brit., art. ‘Troad,’ vol. XXIII. p. 578.)

mvp-comment-255-1 πολὺν πολύν με ³⁴¹

mvp-comment-255-2 δὴ ³⁴² δαρόν ³⁴³

mvp-comment-256-1 ἀμπνοὰς ἔχοντα ³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-257-1 Σκαμάνδριοι … ῥοαί ³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-258-1 εὔφρονες Ἀργείοις ³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-259-1 οὐκέτ’ ἄνδρα μὴ τόνδ’ ἴδητ’ ³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-260-1 ἐξερῶ ³⁴⁸ ἐξερέω ³⁴⁹

mvp-comment-260-2 Join οὔτινα ³⁵⁰ στρατοῦ ³⁵¹

mvp-comment-260-3 χθονὸς μολόντ’ ἀπὸ | Ἑλλανίδος ³⁵²

mvp-comment-260-4 This vaunt of Ajax (modified only by the half-apologetic

) is epic in tone; thus Achilles says of himself ( Il. 18. 105),

τοῖος ἐὼν οἷος οὔτις Αχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων

: Odysseus, ( Od. 9. 19,)

ὃς πᾶσι δόλοισιν

ἀνθρώποισι μέλω, καί μευ κλέος οὐρανὸν ἵκει

. Such a tone is better suited, indeed, to epos (in which speech is sometimes little more than audible thought) than to drama. But here, at least, as in the case of Heracles ( Tr. 1101 f.), it has the excuse of being prompted by the anguish of a sudden overthrow. (Cp. n. on O. T. 8 , where Oedipus speaks of himself as .)

mvp-comment-261-1 πρόκειμαι ³⁵³ πρόκειται ³⁵⁴ ἄνδρα … τόνδε ³⁵⁵

mvp-comment-262-1 οὔτοι … οὐδ’ ³⁵⁶ οὐ … οὔτε ³⁵⁷

mvp-comment-262-2 ὅπως ἐῶ ³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-263-1 ἂν … ᾤεθ’ ³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-263-2 ἐπώνυμον ³⁶⁰ ξυνοίσειν ³⁶¹

mvp-comment-263-3 Pindar adopts the derivation of

from : I. 5. 53 . This was the popular etymology (schol. Apoll. Rh. 1. 1289 ; schol. Theocr. 13. 37 : Apollod. 3. 12 § 7 ). But the association of with appears in the legend that a hyacinth (on whose petals the letters AI were supposed to be legible, Moschus 3. 6) sprang from the blood of Ajax, as it had sprung from that of Hyacinthus: Ov. Met. 13. 397:

Littera communis mediis pueroque viroque | Inscripta est foliis; haec nominis (Ajax), illa querelae

(the wail of Hyacinthus).

mvp-comment-263-4 So Odysseus was associated with

( Od. 1. 62 ; imitated by Soph. , fr. 880): Pentheus, with ( Eur. Bacch. 507 ): Polyneices, with ( Aesch. Th. 577 , etc., Soph. Ant. 110 f.): Meleager, with ( Eur. fr. 517): Sidêro with ( Soph. fr. 597): and Helen is , etc. ( Aesch. Ag. 689 ).

mvp-comment-263-5 Such play on names did not seem to the Greeks unworthy of grave poetry, because to them the omens conveyed by words (

) were so serious. In modern poetry, too, it has sometimes been used with tragic pathos. Thus Dante Purg. XIII. 109 and Shakesp. Rich. II. act 2 sc. 1. 73 (Gaunt) etc. The king asks, , is the reply,

mvp-comment-263-6 The real etymology of

is uncertain. Vase-inscriptions show that the original form was , and Sonne (in Kuhn's Zeitschr. 10 p. 126) compares Indog. aiva, Skr. eva (‘course’)—a derivation which Brugmann approves ( Stud. z. griech. u. lat. Gramm. 4. 180). The sense, ‘swift runner,’ would suit better than the son of Telamon: and it is not improbable (as Fleischer suggests in Roscher's Lex.p. 139) that the names of the two heroes, though identical in form, were of distinct origin.

mvp-comment-264-1 καὶ δὶς … καὶ τρίς ³⁶²

mvp-comment-264-2 τοιούτοις γὰρ ³⁶³

mvp-comment-265-1 πατὴρ ³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-265-2 τὰ πρῶτα καλλιστεἶ ἀριστεύσας ³⁶⁵

mvp-comment-266-1 τόπον Τροίας ³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-266-2 ἐπελθὼν ³⁶⁷

mvp-comment-267-1 ἀρκέσας ³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-267-2 441—

mvp-comment-268-1 τοσοῦτόν γ’ ἐξεπίστασθαι ³⁶⁹ εἰ ζῶν ³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-268-2 εἰ … κρίνειν ἔμελλε ³⁷¹ οὐκ ἄν τις ἔμαρψεν ³⁷²

mvp-comment-268-3 ὅπλων τῶν ὧν πέρι ³⁷³

mvp-comment-268-4 κρίνειν … κράτος ἀριστείας ³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-268-5 ἔμαρψεν ³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-268-6 ἀντ’ ἐμοῦ ³⁷⁶

mvp-comment-269-1 νῦν δ’ ³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-269-2 παντουργῷ ³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-269-3 ἔπραξαν ³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-269-4 ἀπώσαντες ³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-269-5 κράτη ³⁸¹

mvp-comment-270-1 τόδ’ ὄμμα ³⁸²

mvp-comment-270-2 τῆς ἐμῆς ³⁸³

mvp-comment-270-3 οὐκ ἄν ποτε … ἐψήφισαν ³⁸⁴ κατ’ ἄλλου φωτὸς ³⁸⁵ δίκην ἐψήφισαν ³⁸⁶

mvp-comment-271-1 ἡ Διὸς … θεὰ ³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-271-2 γοργῶπις ³⁸⁸

mvp-comment-271-3 ἀδάματος ³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-272-1 ἐπεντύνον<*> ³⁹⁰ ἐπευθύνοντ’ ³⁹¹

mvp-comment-273-1 λυσσώδη νόσον ³⁹²

mvp-comment-274-1 ἐπεγγελῶσιν ³⁹³

mvp-comment-275-1 ἐμοῦ μὲν ³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-275-2 βλάπτοι ³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-276-1 ὅστις ³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-276-2 μισεῖ δέ μ’ ³⁹⁷ πεδία ³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-277-1 πότερα ³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-277-2 ναυλόχους … ἕδρας ⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-277-3 μόνους τ’ Ἀτρείδας ⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-278-1 καὶ ποῖον ⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-278-2 ὄμμα ⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-279-1 γυμνὸν ⁴⁰⁴

mvp-comment-279-2 ὧν … εὐκλείας στέφανον ⁴⁰⁵

mvp-comment-280-1 ἀλλὰ δῆτ’ ⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-280-2 ἔρυμα ⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-280-3 μόνος μόνοις ⁴⁰⁸ μόνοις ⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-280-4 δρῶν τι χρηστόν ⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-281-1 Ἀτρείδας … εὐφράναιμί που ⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-282-1 οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτα ⁴¹²

mvp-comment-283-1 δηλώσω … γεγώς ⁴¹³

mvp-comment-283-2 μή τοι φύσιν γ’ ⁴¹⁴ τοι ⁴¹⁵ γε ⁴¹⁶ οὔ τοι ⁴¹⁷ μή τοι ⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-283-3 ἄσπλαγχνος ⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-284-1 τοῦ μακροῦ … βίου ⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-284-2 κακοῖσιν … μηδὲν ἐξαλλάσσεται ⁴²¹ μηδὲν ⁴²²

mvp-comment-285-1 παρ’ ἦμαρ ἡμέρα ⁴²³ προσθεῖσα ⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-285-2 προσθεῖσα ⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-285-3 κἀναθεῖσα ⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-286-1 πριαίμην ⁴²⁷

mvp-comment-286-2 λόγου ⁴²⁸

mvp-comment-287-1 τεθνηκέναι ⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-287-2 πάντ’ ἀκήκοας λόγον ⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-288-1 ὑπόβλητον ⁴³¹

mvp-comment-289-1 γε μέντοι ⁴³² κρατῆσαι ⁴³³

mvp-comment-290-1 τῆς ἀναγκαίας τύχης ⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-291-1 εἴπερ τινὸς σθένοντος ⁴³⁵

mvp-comment-291-2 ἐν πλούτῳ ⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-292-1 θεοῖς ⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-292-2 μάλιστα ⁴³⁸

mvp-comment-293-1 τοιγαροῦν ⁴³⁹

mvp-comment-293-2 τὸ σὸν λέχος ξυνῆλθον ⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-293-3 τὰ σά ⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-294-1 ἐφεστίου Διὸς ⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-295-1 συνηλλάχθης ⁴⁴³

mvp-comment-296-1 βάξιν λαβεῖν … ὑπ’ ἐχθρῶν ⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-296-2 χειρίαν ⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-296-3 ἐφεὶς ⁴⁴⁶

mvp-comment-297-1 ᾗ γὰρ θάνῃς σὺ ⁴⁴⁷ ᾗ ⁴⁴⁸ εἰ ⁴⁴⁹

mvp-comment-297-2 ἀφῇς ⁴⁵⁰

mvp-comment-298-1 ξυναρπασθεῖσαν ⁴⁵¹ δουλίαν ⁴⁵² δούλιν ⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-298-2 τροφή ⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-299-1 καί τις ⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-299-2 πικρὸν πρόσφθεγμα … ἐρεῖ ⁴⁵⁶ πικρὸν ⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-299-3 λόγοις ἰάπτων ⁴⁵⁸ λόγοις ⁴⁵⁹ ἰάπτων ⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-300-1 ἵσχυσε ⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-300-2 οἵας … ὅσου ⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-300-3 ζήλου ⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-300-4 τρέφει ⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-301-1 κἀμὲ μὲν ⁴⁶⁵ σοὶ δ’ αἰσχρὰ ⁴⁶⁶ ἐλᾷ ⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-301-2 αἰσχρὰ ⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-302-1 αἴδεσαι … προλείπων ⁴⁶⁹ προλείπων ⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-302-2 κληροῦχον ⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-302-3 ἀρᾶται ⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-303-1 οἴκτιρε ⁴⁷³ εἰ ⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-303-2 διοίσεται ⁴⁷⁵ σοῦ … μόνος ⁴⁷⁶

mvp-comment-304-1 ὑπ’ ὀρφανιστῶν ⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-304-2 The word

(found only here) = , ‘guardian.’ Eustathius (p. 533. 30), on Il. 5. 158 , explains as those who administered the property of persons who left no direct heirs ( ); adding, . Apparently, then, he knew the word only from this verse. (The verb usu.=to make .)

mvp-comment-304-3 μὴ φίλων ⁴⁷⁸

mvp-comment-304-4 Compare Andromachè's description, in her lament over Hector, of the lot in store for her child,

, ‘the day of orphanhood makes a child companionless,’ etc.: Il. 22. 490 —498.

mvp-comment-305-1 βλέπω ⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-305-2 ᾔστωσας ⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-305-3 δορί ⁴⁸¹ δόρει ⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-306-1 ἄλλη μοῖρα ⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-307-1 καθεῖλεν … οἰκήτορας ⁴⁸⁴ Ἅιδου, θανασίμους ⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-308-1 πατρίς ⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-308-2 ἐν σοὶ … σῴζομαι ⁴⁸⁷ πᾶς’ ⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-309-1 κἀμοῦ ⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-309-2 προσεῖναι ⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-309-3 τερπνὸν εἴ τί που πάθοι ⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-310-1 χάρις χάριν γάρ ⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-310-2 τίκτους’ ⁴⁹³

mvp-comment-311-1 ἀπορρεῖ ⁴⁹⁴

mvp-comment-311-2 γένοιτ’ ⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-312-1 ἔχειν σ’ ἂν … θέλοιμ’ ἄν ⁴⁹⁶

mvp-comment-312-2 ὡς κἀγὼ ⁴⁹⁷

mvp-comment-313-1 καὶ κάρτ’ ⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-313-2 τὸ ταχθὲν ⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-313-3 τολμᾷ ⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-313-4 For the alliteration (

) cp. 1112 : O.T. 371 (n.).

mvp-comment-314-1 ἀλλ’ ⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-315-1 ὡς ἴδω ⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-316-1 καὶ μὴν φόβοισί γ’ ⁵⁰³ γε ⁵⁰⁴ φόβοισι ⁵⁰⁵ καὶ μήν … γε ⁵⁰⁶ γε ⁵⁰⁷

mvp-comment-316-2 φόβοισι ⁵⁰⁸

mvp-comment-316-3 ἐξελυσάμην ⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-316-4 The conjecture ἐξερρυσάμην ⁵¹⁰

mvp-comment-317-1 κακοῖσιν ⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-318-1 μὴ σοί γε ⁵¹² σοί ⁵¹³

mvp-comment-319-1 πρέπον γέ τἂν ἦν ⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-319-2 δαίμονος ⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-320-1 ἀλλ’ οὖν ⁵¹⁶ γε ⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-320-2 )φύλαξα ⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-320-3 ἀρκέσαι ⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-321-1 ἐπῄνες’ ⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-321-2 ἔθου ⁵²¹

mvp-comment-322-1 ὡς ἐκ τῶνδ’ ⁵²² ἐκτῶνδε ⁵²³ ὡς ⁵²⁴

mvp-comment-323-1 καὶ μὴν ⁵²⁵

mvp-comment-323-2 γε ⁵²⁶ πέλας. ⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-323-3 προσπόλοις ⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-324-1 μὴ οὐ ⁵²⁹ τί μέλλει ⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-324-2 παρουσίαν ἔχειν ⁵³¹

mvp-comment-325-1 εὐθύνων ⁵³²

mvp-comment-326-1 ἕρποντι φωνεῖς ⁵³³

mvp-comment-326-2 λελειμμένῳλόγων ⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-327-1 καὶ δὴ ⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-328-1 αἶρε δεῦρο ⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-328-2 ταρβήσει γὰρ οὒ ⁵³⁷

mvp-comment-329-1 νεοσφαγῆ … φόνον ⁵³⁸ που ⁵³⁹ τοῦ ⁵⁴⁰ τοῦτόν γε ⁵⁴¹ του ⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-330-1 δικαίως ⁵⁴³

mvp-comment-330-2 τὰ πατρόθεν ⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-331-1 ὠμοῖς … ἐν νόμοις ⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-331-2 πωλοδαμνεῖν ⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-331-3 κἀξομοιοῦσθαι ⁵⁴⁷ φύσιν ⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-332-1 ὦ παῖ ⁵⁴⁹

mvp-comment-332-2 τὰ δ’ ἄλλ’ ὅμοιος ⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-333-1 καίτοι … καὶ νῦν ⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-333-2 σε ⁵⁵² σὲ ⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-333-3 τοῦτό γε ⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-333-4 οὐδὲν ⁵⁵⁵ ἐπαισθάνει ⁵⁵⁶

mvp-comment-334-1 ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν μηδὲν ⁵⁵⁷

mvp-comment-334-2 554 b [ τὸ μὴ φρονεῖν γὰρ ⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-335-1 ἕως ⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-336-1 ἵκῃ πρὸς τοῦτο ⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-336-2 δεῖ σ’ ὅπως … δείξεις ⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-337-1 τέως ⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-337-2 κούφοις πνεύμασιν ⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-337-3 νέαν ψυχὴν ἀτάλλων ⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-337-4 The word

may have been suggested to Sophocles by a trait in the scene between Hector and Andromachè: Il. 6. 400 .

mvp-comment-337-5 χαρμονήν ⁵⁶⁵ χαρμονή ⁵⁶⁶

mvp-comment-337-6 560 It is strange that exception should have been taken to the parenthetic οἶδα ⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-337-7 οὔτοι … μή ⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-338-1 τοῖον ⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-338-2 πυλωρὸν ⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-339-1 τροφῆς ἄοκνον ⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-339-2 ἔμπα ⁵⁷² κεἰ ⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-340-1 τηλωπὸς ⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-340-2 οἰχνεῖ ⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-340-3 θήραν ἔχων ⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-341-1 ἀσπιστῆρες ⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-341-2 χάριν ⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-342-1 ὅπως … δείξει ⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-342-2 Ἐριβοίᾳ λέγω ⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-343-1 μέχρις οὗ ⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-344-1 μήτ’ … θήσους’ ⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-344-2 ἀγωνάρχαι ⁵⁸³

mvp-comment-344-3 μήθ’ ὁ λυμεὼν ἐμός ⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-344-4 No correction is very probable. We cannot read

, since, though can represent the possessive pron., such a use of would be unexampled. (See Krüger, Gr. Sprachlehre, § 47. 9. 13.) The dat. is also untenable. It is possible that the poet wrote μήτε λυμεὼν ἐμός ⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-345-1 αὐτό ⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-345-2 ἐπώνυμον ⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-346-1 πολυρράφου … πόρπακος ⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-346-2 But a loop at the edge of the shield, such as the

offered to the warrior's hand ( Helen. 1376 ), would not suffice to give him control. Hence, in the vasepainting noticed above, we see the combined with another contrivance, viz., a band (of metal, or wood), placed vertically across the inside of the shield, and furnished at the middle with an arrangement of small bars, forming a support for the arm just below the elbow. This band was the or .—See Appendix.

mvp-comment-346-3 πολυρράφου ⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-346-4 ἑπτάβοιον ⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-347-1 τεθάψεται ⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-347-2

is here adv.: cp. Ant. 546 .

mvp-comment-348-1 πάκτου ⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-348-2 ἐπισκήνους ⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-348-3 φιλοίκτιστον ⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-349-1 πύκαζε ⁵⁹⁵

mvp-comment-349-2 οὐ πρὸς ἰατροῦ ⁵⁹⁶

mvp-comment-349-3 θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰς ⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-349-4 τομῶντι ⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-350-1 προθυμίαν ⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-350-2 ἀρέσκει ⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-350-3 τεθηγμένη ⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-351-1 δρασείεις ⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-351-2 φρενί ⁶⁰³

mvp-comment-352-1 κρῖνε ⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-353-1 οἴμ’ ὡς ⁶⁰⁵

mvp-comment-353-2 μὴ προδοὺς γένῃ ⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-354-1 ἄγαν γε λυπεῖς ⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-354-2 ἀρκεῖν ⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-354-3 ὀφειλέτης ⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-355-1 εὔφημα φώνει ⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-355-2 τοῖς ἀκούουσιν λέγε ⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-355-3 The division of the verse between two speakers (

) is here used for the first time in the play, to mark the tension of feeling.

mvp-comment-356-1 ξυνέρξεθ’ ⁶¹²

mvp-comment-357-1 ἄρτι ⁶¹³

mvp-comment-357-2 Ajax is now withdrawn into the tent on the eccyclema (

), and the entrance is closed. Tecmessa and her child retire by another door into the part of the dwelling which is supposed to represent the . They re-enter after the Choral ode, and are present while Ajax speaks (see 684 ff.). Some, indeed, suppose that they remain on the scene during the ode; but the command of Ajax to Tecmessa in 579 f., , is against this.

mvp-comment-357-3 Welcker thinks that not only Tecmessa (with the child), but Ajax also, remain present during the ode. ( Rhein. Mus. for 1829, part 3, p. 87.) It is clear, however, from v. 593 that Ajax withdraws into the tent.

mvp-comment-358-1 ναίεις ⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-358-2 ἁλίπλακτος ⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-358-3 πᾶσιν περίφαντος ἀεί ⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-359-1 παλαιὸς ἀφ’ οὗ χρόνος ⁶¹⁷

mvp-comment-359-2 601—

mvp-comment-360-1 Ἰδαῖα ⁶¹⁸

mvp-comment-360-2 1. The metre (logaoedic) is clear: no suspicion rests on the antistrophic verses, 613—615

. Metre proves, then, that ( a) instead of L's , we require --u, which is given by . ( b) Instead of we require --uu-u, which is satisfied by . ( c) Instead of , we require ---.

mvp-comment-360-3 2. εὐνῶμαι ⁶¹⁹ μίμνων ⁶²⁰

mvp-comment-360-4 3. μηνῶν ⁶²¹ μηνῶν ἀνήριθμος ⁶²²

mvp-comment-360-5 What remains doubtful, then, is only how we should correct the words,

. Now, in favour of , let it be noted that, if was the genuine word, then the corruption of into μήλων ⁶²³

mvp-comment-360-6 The construction then is,

, ‘I am encamped in quarters on the fields of Ida,’ , ‘through countless months.’ For the acc. with , cp. such phrases as (249 n.), ( Ph. 144 f.). For with ref. to camping, cp. Il. 10. 408 : Aesch. Ag. 559 —a passage which Sophocles may have had in mind.

mvp-comment-360-7 For other views of the passage, and other emendations, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-361-1 χρόνῳ ⁶²⁴

mvp-comment-362-1 ἐλπίδ’ ⁶²⁵ κακάν ⁶²⁶

mvp-comment-363-1 ἔτι ⁶²⁷

mvp-comment-363-2 με ⁶²⁸ ἀνύσειν … Ἅιδαν ⁶²⁹

mvp-comment-363-3 τὸν ἀπότροπον ⁶³⁰

mvp-comment-363-4 ἀΐδηλον Ἅιδαν ⁶³¹

mvp-comment-364-1 ἔφεδρος ⁶³²

mvp-comment-364-2 Prof. Campbell pronounces this interpretation ‘untenable,’ and renders

‘fixed at my side,’ because ‘Ajax had remained sitting throughout the previous scene,’ and had now apparently relapsed into sullen inaction within his tent.

mvp-comment-365-1 θείᾳ ⁶³³

mvp-comment-366-1 ἐξεπέμψω … θουρίῳ ⁶³⁴

mvp-comment-366-2 πρὶν δή ποτε ⁶³⁵

mvp-comment-366-3 Ἄρει ⁶³⁶ α— ⁶³⁷

mvp-comment-367-1 φρενὸς οἰοβώτας ⁶³⁸

mvp-comment-368-1 ηὕρηται ⁶³⁹

mvp-comment-369-1 ἔργα χεροῖν … ἀρετᾶς ⁶⁴⁰

mvp-comment-370-1 ἄφιλα παρ’ ἀφίλοις ⁶⁴¹

mvp-comment-370-2 ἄφιλα … ἔπεσε ⁶⁴²

mvp-comment-370-3 ἔπεσ’ ἔπεσε ⁶⁴³

mvp-comment-371-1 σύντροφος ⁶⁴⁴ ἔντροφος ⁶⁴⁵

mvp-comment-371-2 παλαιᾷ … ἁμέρᾳ ⁶⁴⁶

mvp-comment-371-3 λευκῷ ⁶⁴⁷ λευκὰ ⁶⁴⁸ μὲν ⁶⁴⁹ δὲ ⁶⁵⁰

mvp-comment-372-1 νοσοῦντα φρενομόρως ⁶⁵¹

mvp-comment-373-1 αἴλινον ⁶⁵²

mvp-comment-373-2 ἀηδοῦς ⁶⁵³

mvp-comment-374-1 ὀξυτόνους ⁶⁵⁴

mvp-comment-375-1 χερόπλακτοι … δοῦποι ⁶⁵⁵

mvp-comment-376-1 ἄμυγμα ⁶⁵⁶

mvp-comment-377-1 κρείσσων … κεύθων ⁶⁵⁷

mvp-comment-377-2 Elmsley's emendation,

, instead of (the reading of the MSS.), is specious; for Sophocles has that phrase in O. T. 972 and in O. C. 1572 ; but here he may have been thinking of Il. 23. 244 . The personal sense of Hades easily passes into the local; thus we have not only ( Tr. 4 ), but ( El. 833 ). For the simple dat., cp. El. 174 (n.).

mvp-comment-377-3 κεύθων ⁶⁵⁸

mvp-comment-377-4 ὁ νοσῶν μάταν ⁶⁵⁹

mvp-comment-378-1 ἐκ πατρῴας ἥκων γενεᾶς ἄριστος … Ἀχαιῶν ⁶⁶⁰ ἥκων ⁶⁶¹ ἄριστος ⁶⁶² ἄριστος ⁶⁶³

mvp-comment-378-2 The ingenious conjecture of Burges,

, would mean, ‘fortunate ( ) in his descent ( ) with regard to paternal lineage’ (the gen. as in , Her. 5. 62 , etc.). But this is tame; and is also prosaic: nor does it account for the gen. . Wecklein, reading , understands, ‘fortunate in his lineage, — most so, indeed, of the Achaeans’: so that defines .

mvp-comment-378-3 πολυπόνων ⁶⁶⁴

mvp-comment-379-1 συντρόφοις ὀργαῖς ⁶⁶⁵ ἔμπεδος ⁶⁶⁶

mvp-comment-379-2 ἐκτὸς ὁμιλεῖ ⁶⁶⁷ ἐκτὸς ⁶⁶⁸ ὁμιλεῖ ⁶⁶⁹ ὁμιλεῖ ⁶⁷⁰

mvp-comment-380-1 τλᾶμον ⁶⁷¹

mvp-comment-381-1 δύσφορον ⁶⁷²

mvp-comment-382-1 ἔθρεψεν ⁶⁷³

mvp-comment-382-2 αἰὼν ⁶⁷⁴ δίων ⁶⁷⁵

mvp-comment-383-1 ὁ μακρὸς … χρόνος ⁶⁷⁶

mvp-comment-383-2 φύει τ’ ⁶⁷⁷ φύει ⁶⁷⁸ φαίνει ⁶⁷⁹

mvp-comment-383-3 κρύπτεται ⁶⁸⁰

mvp-comment-384-1 ἄελπτον ⁶⁸¹

mvp-comment-384-2 ἁλίσκεται ⁶⁸² δεινὸς ⁶⁸³

mvp-comment-384-3 περισκελεῖς ⁶⁸⁴

mvp-comment-385-1 τὰ δείν’ ⁶⁸⁵ τότε ⁶⁸⁶

mvp-comment-385-2 βαφῇ σίδηρος ὥς ⁶⁸⁷

mvp-comment-385-3 ἐθηλύνθην στόμα ⁶⁸⁸ στόμα ⁶⁸⁹ βαφῇ σίδηρος ὥς ⁶⁹⁰

mvp-comment-386-1 οἰκτίρω … λιπεῖν ⁶⁹¹

mvp-comment-387-1 πρός τε λουτρὰ ⁶⁹²

mvp-comment-387-2 λύμαθ’ ἁγνίσας ⁶⁹³

mvp-comment-387-3 ἐξαλύξωμαι ⁶⁹⁴ ἐξαλεύσωμαι ⁶⁹⁵

mvp-comment-388-1 μολών … ἔνθ’ ⁶⁹⁶

mvp-comment-388-2 κίχω ⁶⁹⁷

mvp-comment-388-3 κρύψω ⁶⁹⁸

mvp-comment-388-4 γαίας ⁶⁹⁹

mvp-comment-388-5 ἔνθα μή τις ὄψεται ⁷⁰⁰

mvp-comment-389-1 ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ ⁷⁰¹

mvp-comment-390-1 χειρὶ ⁷⁰²

mvp-comment-390-2 The exchange of gifts between the two heroes is told in Il. 7. 303 ff.: Hector gave ‘his silver-studded sword (

), with scabbard and well-cut baldrick; and Ajax gave his girdle bright with purple.’

mvp-comment-390-3 ἔσχον ⁷⁰³

mvp-comment-391-1 ἡ βροτῶν παροιμία ⁷⁰⁴

mvp-comment-391-2 ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα ⁷⁰⁵

mvp-comment-392-1 τοιγὰρ ⁷⁰⁶

mvp-comment-392-2 τὸ λοιπὸν ⁷⁰⁷ εἰσόμεσθα ⁷⁰⁸ μαθησόμεσθα ⁷⁰⁹

mvp-comment-393-1 τί μήν ⁷¹⁰ τί μήν ⁷¹¹ τί μή ⁷¹² τί μή ⁷¹³

mvp-comment-394-1 τὰ δεινὰ ⁷¹⁴

mvp-comment-394-2 τιμαῖς ⁷¹⁵

mvp-comment-394-3 τοῦτο μὲν ⁷¹⁶

mvp-comment-394-4 νιφοστιβεῖς χειμῶνες ⁷¹⁷

mvp-comment-395-1 ἐξίσταται ⁷¹⁸

mvp-comment-395-2 αἰανὴς ⁷¹⁹ αἰανὴς ⁷²⁰ κύκλος ⁷²¹

mvp-comment-395-3 τῇ λευκοπώλῳ ⁷²² φέγγος … φλέγειν ⁷²³

mvp-comment-396-1 ἐκοίμισε ⁷²⁴

mvp-comment-396-2 Lobeck, though he refrains from changing δεινῶν ⁷²⁵ λείων ⁷²⁶ ἐκοίμισε ⁷²⁷

mvp-comment-396-3 ἐν δ’ ⁷²⁸

mvp-comment-397-1 γνωσόμεσθα ⁷²⁹

mvp-comment-398-1 ἔγωγ)· ⁷³⁰

mvp-comment-398-2 The vulgate

may have come from in 677. It requires us to suppose that the poet was going to write ( ), ,—and then changed the constr. This is awkward. On the other hand, with , we could not supply .

mvp-comment-399-1 ὅ τ’ ἐχθρὸς ἡμῖν ⁷³¹

mvp-comment-399-2 Arist. Rhet. 2. 13 § 4 (old men)

. Bias , of Prienè in Ionia, one of the , is said to have flourished about 550 B.C. For other references to this famous maxim, see Appendix.

mvp-comment-400-1 ἔς τε τὸν φίλον ⁷³² ὑπουργῶν ⁷³³

mvp-comment-400-2 βουλήσομαι ⁷³⁴

mvp-comment-401-1 τοῖς πολλοῖσι γὰρ ⁷³⁵

mvp-comment-401-2 ἑταιρείας ⁷³⁶ ἑταιρίας ⁷³⁷

mvp-comment-402-1 ἀμφὶ … τούτοισιν ⁷³⁸ διὰ τάχους ⁷³⁹

mvp-comment-403-1 ταὐτὰ τῇδε ⁷⁴⁰

mvp-comment-403-2 τάδε τιμᾶτε ⁷⁴¹

mvp-comment-404-1 μέλειν ⁷⁴²

mvp-comment-405-1 ἐκεῖς’ ⁷⁴³ κεῖς’ ⁷⁴⁴

mvp-comment-406-1 τάχ’ ἄν … ἴσως ⁷⁴⁵ σεσωσμένον ⁷⁴⁶

mvp-comment-407-1 ἔφριξ’ ⁷⁴⁷ ἔρωτι ⁷⁴⁸

mvp-comment-407-2 ἀνεπτάμαν ⁷⁴⁹

mvp-comment-407-3 694 ff. Pan was a domestic deity to Salaminians, since one of his reputed haunts was the islet of Psyttaleia, lying between

, a tongue of land on the E. side of Salamis, and the Peiraeus. Aesch. mentions it ( Aesch. Pers. 448 f.):

mvp-comment-407-4 ἁλίπλαγκτε ⁷⁵⁰

mvp-comment-407-5 Κυλλανίας … δειράδος ⁷⁵¹

mvp-comment-407-6 χιονοκτύπου ⁷⁵²

mvp-comment-408-1 θεῶν χοροποἴ ἄναξ ⁷⁵³

mvp-comment-408-2 Νύσια ⁷⁵⁴

mvp-comment-408-3 Κνώσια ⁷⁵⁵

mvp-comment-408-4 αὐτοδαῆ ⁷⁵⁶

mvp-comment-408-5 ἰάψῃς ⁷⁵⁷

mvp-comment-409-1 χορεῦσαι ⁷⁵⁸

mvp-comment-410-1 Ἰκαρίων … πελαγέων ⁷⁵⁹

mvp-comment-410-2 πελαγέων ⁷⁶⁰ ὑπὲρ ⁷⁶¹

mvp-comment-410-3 Ἀπόλλων ⁷⁶²

mvp-comment-410-4 Δάλιος ⁷⁶³

mvp-comment-410-5 εὔγνωστος ⁷⁶⁴ εὔγνωτος ⁷⁶⁵

mvp-comment-410-6 διὰ παντὸς ⁷⁶⁶

mvp-comment-411-1 ἔλυσεν … Ἄρης ⁷⁶⁷

mvp-comment-411-2 αἰνὸν ἄχος ⁷⁶⁸

mvp-comment-411-3 ἀπ’ ὀμμάτων ⁷⁶⁹

mvp-comment-412-1 πάρα ⁷⁷⁰

mvp-comment-412-2 λευκὸν … φάος ⁷⁷¹ εὐάμερον φάος ⁷⁷²

mvp-comment-412-3 πελάσαι ⁷⁷³

mvp-comment-412-4 θοᾶν ⁷⁷⁴

mvp-comment-413-1 λαθίπονος ⁷⁷⁵

mvp-comment-414-1 πάνθυτα θέσμἰ ἐξήνυς’ ⁷⁷⁶ πάνθυτα ⁷⁷⁷

mvp-comment-414-2 εὐνομίᾳ ⁷⁷⁸

mvp-comment-415-1 μαραίνει ⁷⁷⁹

mvp-comment-416-1 ἀναύδατον ⁷⁸⁰

mvp-comment-417-1 ἐξ ἀέλπτων ⁷⁸¹

mvp-comment-418-1 μετανεγνώσθη ⁷⁸² μετανεγνώθη ⁷⁸³

mvp-comment-419-1 θυμοῦ τ’. θυμῶν ⁷⁸⁴ Ἀτρείδαις ⁷⁸⁵

mvp-comment-420-1 τὸ πρῶτον ⁷⁸⁶ τὸ πρῶτον ⁷⁸⁷

mvp-comment-421-1 Μυσίων … κρημνῶν ⁷⁸⁸

mvp-comment-421-2 στρατήγιον ⁷⁸⁹ μέσον ⁷⁹⁰

mvp-comment-422-1 κυδάζεται ⁷⁹¹ Ἀργείοις ⁷⁹²

mvp-comment-423-1 στείχοντα ⁷⁹³ ἐν κύκλῳ ⁷⁹⁴ πρόσωθεν ⁷⁹⁵ μαθόντες ⁷⁹⁶

mvp-comment-424-1 ἤρασσον ⁷⁹⁷

mvp-comment-424-2 ἔνθεν κἄνθεν ⁷⁹⁸

mvp-comment-424-3 οὔτις ἔσθ’ ὃς οὔ ⁷⁹⁹

mvp-comment-425-1 τὸν τοῦ μανέντος ⁸⁰⁰

mvp-comment-425-2 κἀπιβουλευτοῦ στρατοῦ ⁸⁰¹ στρατοῦ ⁸⁰² στρατῷ ⁸⁰³

mvp-comment-425-3 ἀποκαλοῦντες ⁸⁰⁴

mvp-comment-425-4 ὡς οὐκ ἀρκέσοι τὸ μὴ οὐ … θανεῖν ⁸⁰⁵

mvp-comment-425-5 καταξανθεὶς ⁸⁰⁶

mvp-comment-426-1 ὥστ’ ⁸⁰⁷ ὥστε ⁸⁰⁸ τοσοῦτον ⁸⁰⁹

mvp-comment-426-2 κολεῶν … ξίφη ⁸¹⁰ ἐρυστά ⁸¹¹ κουλεῶν ⁸¹²

mvp-comment-427-1 δραμοῦσα τοῦ προσωτάτω ⁸¹³

mvp-comment-427-2 ἐν ξυναλλαγῇ λόγου … γερόντων ⁸¹⁴ ἐν ⁸¹⁵

mvp-comment-428-1 ἡμὶν ⁸¹⁶

mvp-comment-428-2 τοῖς κυρίοις ⁸¹⁷

mvp-comment-429-1 νέας βουλὰς ⁸¹⁸ νέοισιν … τρόποις ⁸¹⁹ ἐγκαταζεύξας ⁸²⁰

mvp-comment-430-1 ἰοὺ ἰού ⁸²¹

mvp-comment-430-2 βραδεῖαν ⁸²² ἡμᾶς … πέμπων ὁδόν ⁸²³ )φάνην ⁸²⁴

mvp-comment-431-1 χρείας τῆσδ’ ⁸²⁵

mvp-comment-431-2 ὑπεσπανισμένον ⁸²⁶

mvp-comment-432-1 ἀπηύδα ⁸²⁷

mvp-comment-432-2 τύχῃ ⁸²⁸ τύχοι ⁸²⁹

mvp-comment-433-1 οἴχεται ⁸³⁰

mvp-comment-433-2 τὸ κέρδιστον ⁸³¹ τὸ κέρδιον ⁸³²

mvp-comment-433-3 θεοῖσιν … χόλου ⁸³³

mvp-comment-434-1 εὖ φρονῶν ⁸³⁴

mvp-comment-435-1 πάρει ⁸³⁵ πέρι ⁸³⁶

mvp-comment-436-1 τοσοῦτον ⁸³⁷ οἶδα ⁸³⁸ παρὼν ⁸³⁹ καὶ παρὼν ἐτύγχανον ⁸⁴⁰

mvp-comment-437-1 συνέδρου καὶ τυρ. κύκλου ⁸⁴¹

mvp-comment-437-2 750 Calchas is present at this council, as he is at that in the first book of the Iliad ( Il. 1. 69 ). He knew by inspiration that, if Ajax could be kept in his tent for that one day, all would be well. Leaving the circle of the chiefs, he went to Teucer, who was awaiting the result in the neighbourhood. They sat down apart ( cp. 780 ). The messenger was near them, and heard what Calchas said to Teucer.

mvp-comment-437-3 οἶος Ἀτρειδῶν δίχα ⁸⁴²

mvp-comment-438-1 φιλοφρόνως ⁸⁴³

mvp-comment-439-1 παντοίᾳ τέχνῃ ⁸⁴⁴

mvp-comment-440-1 εἶρξαι ⁸⁴⁵

mvp-comment-440-2 ἦμαρ τοὐμφανὲς τὸ νῦν τόδε ⁸⁴⁶

mvp-comment-441-1 ὑπὸ σκηναῖσι ⁸⁴⁷

mvp-comment-441-2 μηδ’ ἀφέντ’ ἐᾶν ⁸⁴⁸

mvp-comment-442-1 ἐκεῖνον ⁸⁴⁹ Αἴαντα ⁸⁵⁰

mvp-comment-442-2 ποτέ ⁸⁵¹

mvp-comment-443-1 ἐλᾷ ⁸⁵²

mvp-comment-443-2 τῇδε θἡμέρᾳ ⁸⁵³

mvp-comment-444-1 ὡς ἔφη λέγων ⁸⁵⁴

mvp-comment-445-1 τὰ γὰρ περισσὰ ⁸⁵⁵ περισσὰ κανόνητα ς<*>ματα ⁸⁵⁶

mvp-comment-445-2 It is not without reason, then, that the reading κἀνόνητα ⁸⁵⁷ κἀνόητα ⁸⁵⁸ σώματα ⁸⁵⁹

mvp-comment-446-1 ὅστις ⁸⁶⁰

mvp-comment-446-2 φύσιν βλαστὼν ⁸⁶¹

mvp-comment-446-3 φρονῇ ⁸⁶²

mvp-comment-447-1 κεῖνος δ’ ⁸⁶³

mvp-comment-447-2 καλῶς λέγοντος ⁸⁶⁴

mvp-comment-448-1 αὐτὸν ἐννέπει ⁸⁶⁵

mvp-comment-449-1 σὺν θεῷ ⁸⁶⁶

mvp-comment-450-1 ὁ μηδὲν ὢν ⁸⁶⁷

mvp-comment-451-1 καὶ δίχα κείνων ⁸⁶⁸

mvp-comment-452-1 ἐπισπάσειν κλέος ⁸⁶⁹

mvp-comment-453-1 δίας Ἀθάνας ⁸⁷⁰

mvp-comment-453-2 Other explanations are the following. (1) The poet meant to add something to the effect of

, but changed the form of the sentence. (2) stands for a gen. absol., . (3) The gen. depends on in 773, ‘a saying about her,’ like ( Ant. 11 ).

mvp-comment-453-3 The most attractive remedy is Mehlhorn's, δίαν Ἀθάναν ⁸⁷¹

mvp-comment-453-4 If, on the other hand, δίας Ἀθάνας ⁸⁷² δεύτερον ⁸⁷³

mvp-comment-454-1 τοῖς ἄλλοισιν Ἀργείων ⁸⁷⁴ πέλας ⁸⁷⁵

mvp-comment-454-2 καθ’ ἡμᾶς ⁸⁷⁶

mvp-comment-454-3 οὔποτ’ ἐκρήξει μάχη ⁸⁷⁷

mvp-comment-455-1 τοιοῖσδέ τοι ⁸⁷⁸ τοῖς ⁸⁷⁹ τοι ⁸⁸⁰

mvp-comment-455-2 ἀστεργῆ ⁸⁸¹

mvp-comment-455-3 ἐκτήσατ’ ὀργήν ⁸⁸²

mvp-comment-455-4 οὐ κατ’ ἄνθρωπον φρονῶν ⁸⁸³

mvp-comment-456-1 ἔστι ⁸⁸⁴ αὐτοῦ … σωτήριοι ⁸⁸⁵

mvp-comment-456-2 σὺν θεῷ ⁸⁸⁶

mvp-comment-457-1 ὁ δ’ … Τεῦκρος ⁸⁸⁷

mvp-comment-457-2 εὐθὺς ἐξ ἕδρας ⁸⁸⁸ εὐθὺς ⁸⁸⁹

mvp-comment-457-3 Teucer sends a messenger, instead of going himself, probably because he hopes that his mediation with the chiefs may do some good. What he dreads is simply that Ajax should leave the tent; and a message could prevent that. He has no cause to suspect that Ajax meditates suicide.

mvp-comment-458-1 ἐπιστολὰς ⁸⁹⁰

mvp-comment-458-2 φυλάσσειν ⁸⁹¹

mvp-comment-458-3 ἀπεστερήμεθα ⁸⁹² ἀφυστερήμεθα ⁸⁹³ εἰ δ’ ἄρ’ ὑστερήσαμεν ⁸⁹⁴

mvp-comment-459-1 δαΐα ⁸⁹⁵

mvp-comment-459-2 γένος ⁸⁹⁶

mvp-comment-459-3 θροεῖ ⁸⁹⁷

mvp-comment-460-1 ξυρεῖ … ἐν χρῷ ⁸⁹⁸ ἐν χρῷ ⁸⁹⁹ χρῷ ⁹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-460-2 μὴ χαίρειν τινά ⁹⁰¹

mvp-comment-460-3 787 f. Tecmessa, who, at the desire of Ajax (684), had withdrawn into the tent (692), now re-enters, with Eurysaces ( cp. 809 ).

mvp-comment-460-4 ἀτρύτων ⁹⁰²

mvp-comment-461-1 πρᾶξιν ⁹⁰³ βάξιν ⁹⁰⁴ φέρων … πρᾶξιν ⁹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-462-1 ἄνθρωπε ⁹⁰⁶ ὀλώλαμεν ⁹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-463-1 Αἴαντος ⁹⁰⁸ πέρι ⁹⁰⁹

mvp-comment-464-1 καὶ μὴν ⁹¹⁰ γ’ ⁹¹¹ θυραῖος ⁹¹²

mvp-comment-464-2 ὠδίνειν τί φής ⁹¹³

mvp-comment-465-1 εἴργειν ⁹¹⁴

mvp-comment-465-2 ἐξεφίεται ⁹¹⁵

mvp-comment-465-3 σκηνῆς ὕπαυλον ⁹¹⁶

mvp-comment-466-1 κἀπὶ τῷ ⁹¹⁷

mvp-comment-467-1 τήνδε δ’ ἔξοδον … φέρειν ⁹¹⁸

mvp-comment-467-2 Nor can we render: ‘He (Teucer) forebodes that this going-forth, which he announces, will be fatal to Ajax.’

could be said only of the messenger— not of the man who sends him. Paley's conjecture, , meets the point as to , but the change to the first person is too harsh. Bothe's ἐλπίζειν φέρει ⁹¹⁹ ἐλπίζει κυρεῖν ⁹²⁰

mvp-comment-467-3 Could ὀλεθρίαν Αἴαντος ⁹²¹ Αἴαντος εἰς ὄλεθρον ⁹²²

mvp-comment-468-1 τοῦ Θεστορείου μάντεως ⁹²³

mvp-comment-468-2 ὅτ’ αὐτῷ … φέρει ⁹²⁴ ὅτ’ ⁹²⁵ ὅτ’ ⁹²⁶ ὃς ⁹²⁷

mvp-comment-468-3 If φέρει ⁹²⁸ φέρει … θάνατον ἢ βίον ⁹²⁹

mvp-comment-468-4 It is possible that

came, under the influence of in 799, from (the subject being Calchas): but we should not be warranted in altering the text. Wecklein and Blaydes, reading θροεῖ ⁹³⁰

mvp-comment-469-1 οἲ )γώ ⁹³¹

mvp-comment-469-2 πρόστητ’ ⁹³²

mvp-comment-469-3 ἀναγκαίας τύχης ⁹³³

mvp-comment-470-1 οἱ μὲν ⁹³⁴ οἱ δὲ … οἱ δέ ⁹³⁵

mvp-comment-470-2 Τεῦκρον μολεῖν ⁹³⁶ σπεύσατε ⁹³⁷

mvp-comment-470-3 ἑσπέρους … ἀντηλίους ⁹³⁸

mvp-comment-470-4 ἀγκῶνας ⁹³⁹ ζητεῖτ’ ⁹⁴⁰ μολεῖν ⁹⁴¹

mvp-comment-471-1 φωτὸς ἠπατημένη ⁹⁴²

mvp-comment-471-2 χάριτος ⁹⁴³ ἐκβεβλημένη ⁹⁴⁴

mvp-comment-472-1 τί δράσω, τέκνον ⁹⁴⁵

mvp-comment-472-2 ὅποιπερ ἂν σθένω ⁹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-473-1 ἐγκονῶμεν ⁹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-473-2 οὐχ ἕδρας ἀκμὴ ⁹⁴⁸

mvp-comment-473-3 As to the diction of the verse, three points claim notice. (1) The γε ⁹⁴⁹ ἄνδρα ⁹⁵⁰ σπεύδῃ ⁹⁵¹ θέλοντας ⁹⁵² θέλοντες ⁹⁵³

mvp-comment-474-1 ἕτοιμος ⁹⁵⁴ ἔργου ⁹⁵⁵ ποδῶν ⁹⁵⁶

mvp-comment-474-2 Tecmessa now leaves the scene by the entrance on the spectator's left, leading to the open country. The Messenger, with the servants of Ajax, goes out on the spectator's right, as being bound for the Greek camp.

mvp-comment-474-3 The Chorus leave the orchestra in two

, one by the on the right, the other by that on the left. The withdrawal of the Chorus from the orchestra during the course of a play was called : their return, . The other extant examples are:—(1) Aesch. Eum.: at v. 231: at v. 299. (2) Eur. Alc.: , Eur. Alc. 746 : , Eur. Alc. 872. (3) Helen. : , 385: , 515. (4) Ar. Eccl.: , Ar. Eccl. 310 : , Ar. Eccl. 478.

mvp-comment-474-4 A change of scene is now supposed to take place, from the ground in front of the tent of Ajax to a lonely spot on the sea-shore, with trees or bushes (

, 892). We do not know how this change was managed. (1) It may have been indicated merely by removing the hangings on the back-wall which represented the of Ajax. This is MA. üller's view ( Gr. Bühnenalterthümer, p. 162). (2) Wecklein supposes that a back-wall, representing the , was drawn back on right and left, disclosing the new scene.—We cannot assume the use of in the poet's time (cp. note at the beginning of the play). Had they been in use, the on the spectator's left could have turned, so as to represent a new locality ( ). The right-hand , indicating the region in which the whole action takes place ( ), would not have been changed.

mvp-comment-474-5 The only other Greek play in which a change of scene is certain is the Eumenides, where the action begins at the temple of the Delphian Apollo, and passes at v. 235 to that of Athena Polias at Athens. This may have been marked merely by substituting a statue of Athena for one of Apollo.

mvp-comment-474-6 815 Ajax is standing at the side of the scene on the spectator's right, near the underwood which screens him when he falls—so that his body is not at first visible to the Chorus when they return to the orchestra, but could be seen by Tecmessa, when she comes on the scene from the left. The point of the sword could probably be seen by the audience. Hesychius quotes Polemon, the sophist in Hadrian's age, as saying that the

was used . It was a short stage-sword, of which the blade ran back; otherwise called (Hesych., which some refer to ), or . Cp. Achilles Tatius 3. 20 .

mvp-comment-474-7 The antithesis to ὁ μὲν σφαγεὺς ⁹⁵⁷ ἐκ δὲ τῶνδε ⁹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-474-8 σφαγεὺς ⁹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-474-9 τομώτατος ⁹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-475-1 εἴ τῳ καὶ λογίζεσθαι σχολή ⁹⁶¹

mvp-comment-476-1 δῶρον μὲν ⁹⁶²

mvp-comment-476-2 ἀνδρὸς ⁹⁶³

mvp-comment-476-3 ξένων ⁹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-477-1 πολεμίᾳ ⁹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-477-2 σιδηροβρῶτι ⁹⁶⁶

mvp-comment-477-3 θηγάνῃ ⁹⁶⁷

mvp-comment-477-4 νεηκονής ⁹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-478-1 περιστείλας ⁹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-478-2 θανεῖν ⁹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-479-1 εύσχευοῦμεν ⁹⁷¹

mvp-comment-479-2 ἐκ δὲ τῶνδε ⁹⁷²

mvp-comment-479-3 Ζεῦ ⁹⁷³

mvp-comment-479-4 καὶ γὰρ εἰκός ⁹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-479-5 αἰτήσομαι ⁹⁷⁵ λαχεῖν ⁹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-479-6 μακρὸν ⁹⁷⁷

mvp-comment-480-1 ἡμῖν ⁹⁷⁸ ἄγγελον ⁹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-481-1 βαστάσῃ ⁹⁸⁰

mvp-comment-481-2 πεπτῶτα περὶ ξίφει ⁹⁸¹

mvp-comment-482-1 πρόβλητος ⁹⁸²

mvp-comment-482-2 ἕλωρ ⁹⁸³

mvp-comment-482-3 Ajax forebodes that, as a public enemy, he will suffer the doom which Achilles assigns to Hector ( Il. 22. 354 ), Creon to Polyneices ( Ant. 205 ), and Electra to Aegisthus ( El. 1487 ). The Atreidae, in fact, so intended (1064 f.).

mvp-comment-483-1 τοσαῦτά σε … προστρέπω ⁹⁸⁴

mvp-comment-483-2 καλῶ δ’ ⁹⁸⁵ καλῶ θ’ ⁹⁸⁶

mvp-comment-483-3 832 The sense of πομπαῖον ⁹⁸⁷ χθόνιον ⁹⁸⁸

mvp-comment-484-1 ἀσφαδάστῳ ⁹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-484-2 The precept to write

(and therefore, as Nauck does, ) dates from Herodian ( c. 160 A.D. ), but is not confirmed by any such independent evidence as exists in the case of ( Soph. O. T. 891 ). Ellendt writes , yet .

mvp-comment-484-3 πηδήματι ⁹⁹⁰ ξὺν ⁹⁹¹

mvp-comment-485-1 πλευρὰν διαρρήξαντα ⁹⁹²

mvp-comment-486-1 τὰς ἀεί τε παρθένους ⁹⁹³

mvp-comment-486-2 ἀεί θ’ ὁρώσας ⁹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-486-3 ὁρώσας ⁹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-487-1 σεμνὰς ⁹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-487-2 τανύποδας ⁹⁹⁷

mvp-comment-487-3 839—

mvp-comment-488-1 κάκιστα καὶ πανωλέθρους ⁹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-488-2 The last two of these four verses are certainly spurious, as three things show.

mvp-comment-488-3 (1) The poet would not have made the dying Ajax pray that the Atreidae may die ‘at the hands of their offspring,’ unless there had been some legend that they so died. But, according to the current mythology, Agamemnon was slain by his wife and her paramour, while Menelaüs and Helen passed, without dying, to Elysium ( Od. 4. 561 ). It is only in later times that we meet with the story of Menelaüs and Helen having been sacrificed by Iphigeneia in the land of the Tauri ( Ptolemy Heph. 4 , cp. Roscher, Lex. p. 1951 ): a myth which the author of these verses may have had in view. Odysseus, indeed, was slain by Telegonus; but he does not come into account here, unless we make the improbable change of

to in 838. [As to the double sense of , with ref. to one who is slain (1) by himself, (2) by a kinsman, see on Ant. 56 .]

mvp-comment-488-4 (2) These two verses confuse the construction, since

( sc. ) refers to what precedes: while in 841 refers to .

mvp-comment-488-5 (3) The form

occurs nowhere else, except as a proper name.

mvp-comment-488-6

is not elsewhere found in Soph. or Eur. : it is, however, used by Aesch. , not only in lyrics ( Aesch. Th. 484 , Suppl. 69, 670, 691), but once, at least, in a trimeter, Th. 637 . We should not, then, insist on as a mark of spuriousness: and is, of course, free from objection ( O. T. 1274 n.). But the case against 841 f. seems conclusive without them.

mvp-comment-488-7 A more difficult question is whether vv. 839, 840 are also spurious. The schol. in L on v. 841 is as follows:—

: . As the lemma, , clearly indicates, refers only to the two verses 841 f., and not (as Dindorf and others have assumed) to all the four verses 839—842. The surmise was, says the scholiast, that vv. 841 f. were added ‘to make the meaning clearer’; i.e., to explain the elliptical phrase, . Such a surmise itself shows that vv. 839, 840 were believed to be older than 841 f. It is indeed plain that all four verses are not by the same author. The incoherent construction noticed above, under (2), was possible for an interpolator whose attention was fixed on , but hardly for one who was forging vv. 839—842 as a whole. If, then, all four verses are condemned, we must assume two independent interpolations.

mvp-comment-488-8 I incline to think that the two verses 839 and 840 are genuine; because, otherwise, the imprecation on the

(844) would follow too abruptly on v. 838. The prayer for the destruction of his chief foes, uttered in 839 f., leads up to the more sweeping denunciation of the Greek army.

mvp-comment-489-1 ἴτ’ ⁹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-489-2 γεύεσθε ¹⁰⁰⁰

mvp-comment-489-3 πανδήμου στρατοῦ ¹⁰⁰¹

mvp-comment-490-1 αἰπὺν ¹⁰⁰²

mvp-comment-490-2 οὐρανὸν διφρηλατῶν ¹⁰⁰³

mvp-comment-491-1 ἴδῃς ¹⁰⁰⁴

mvp-comment-491-2 χρυσόνωτον ἡνίαν ¹⁰⁰⁵

mvp-comment-492-1 τροφῷ ¹⁰⁰⁶

mvp-comment-493-1 ἦ που ¹⁰⁰⁷

mvp-comment-493-2 ἥσει … κωκυτὸν ¹⁰⁰⁸

mvp-comment-493-3 ἐν πάσῃ πόλει ¹⁰⁰⁹

mvp-comment-494-1 ἔργον ¹⁰¹⁰

mvp-comment-494-2 ἀλλ’ … ἀλλ’ ¹⁰¹¹

mvp-comment-495-1 Θάνατε ¹⁰¹²

mvp-comment-496-1 κἀκεῖ ¹⁰¹³

mvp-comment-496-2 The absence of caesura gives a more deliberate weight to

: cp. 994 : Ph. 1369 , and ib. 101: Ant. 44.

mvp-comment-497-1 τὸ νῦν σέλας ¹⁰¹⁴

mvp-comment-497-2 διφρευτὴν ¹⁰¹⁵

mvp-comment-498-1 πανύστατον δὴ ¹⁰¹⁶

mvp-comment-498-2 κοὔποτ’ … ὕστερον ¹⁰¹⁷

mvp-comment-499-1 ἱερὸν ¹⁰¹⁸

mvp-comment-499-2 πατρῷον ¹⁰¹⁹ βάθρον ¹⁰²⁰

mvp-comment-500-1 κλειναί ¹⁰²¹

mvp-comment-500-2 καὶ τὸ σύντροφον γένος ¹⁰²²

mvp-comment-501-1 κρῆναί τε ποταμοί θ’ οἵδε ¹⁰²³

mvp-comment-501-2 καὶ τὰ Τρ. πεδία προσαυδῶ ¹⁰²⁴

mvp-comment-501-3 τροφῆς ¹⁰²⁵

mvp-comment-502-1 Αἴας … θροεῖ ¹⁰²⁶ μυθήσομαι ¹⁰²⁷

mvp-comment-502-2 Ajax falls upon his sword. (See n. on 815.)—The actor Timotheus of Zacynthus (says the scholiast) was celebrated in this scene:

.

mvp-comment-503-1 πόνος πόνῳ πόνον ¹⁰²⁸

mvp-comment-504-1 κοὐδεὶς … τόπος ¹⁰²⁹ συμμαθεῖν ¹⁰³⁰ σφε ¹⁰³¹ κοὐδεὶς ἐπίσταταί σφε συνναίειν τόπος ¹⁰³²

mvp-comment-505-1 ἰδού ¹⁰³³

mvp-comment-506-1 ἡμῶν ¹⁰³⁴ ναὸς … ὁμιλίαν ¹⁰³⁵

mvp-comment-506-2 κοινόπλουν ¹⁰³⁶

mvp-comment-507-1 τί οὖν δή ¹⁰³⁷

mvp-comment-508-1 ἐστίβηται ¹⁰³⁸

mvp-comment-509-1 ἔχεις οὖν ¹⁰³⁹

mvp-comment-510-1 κοὐδὲν εἰς ὄψιν πλέον ¹⁰⁴⁰

mvp-comment-511-1 ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὲν δὴ ¹⁰⁴¹

mvp-comment-511-2 τὴν ἀφ’ ἡλίου βολῶν ¹⁰⁴²

mvp-comment-511-3 δηλοῖ ¹⁰⁴³ κέλευθον ¹⁰⁴⁴

mvp-comment-512-1 τίς ἂν ¹⁰⁴⁵ ἁλιαδᾶν ¹⁰⁴⁶

mvp-comment-512-2 ἔχων … ἄγρας ¹⁰⁴⁷

mvp-comment-512-3 ἀΰπνους ¹⁰⁴⁸ ἀμφ’ ¹⁰⁴⁹

mvp-comment-513-1 ἢ τίς Ὀλυμπιάδων θεᾶν ¹⁰⁵⁰ θεᾶν ¹⁰⁵¹ ποταμῶν ¹⁰⁵²

mvp-comment-513-2 ῥυτῶν ¹⁰⁵³

mvp-comment-513-3 Βοσπορίων ¹⁰⁵⁴ ἴδρις ¹⁰⁵⁵ ποταμῶν ¹⁰⁵⁶

mvp-comment-514-1 εἴ ποθι … λεύσσων ¹⁰⁵⁷

mvp-comment-514-2 σχέτλια ¹⁰⁵⁸

mvp-comment-514-3 τὸν μακρῶν ἀλάταν πόνων ¹⁰⁵⁹ οὐρίῳ μὴ πελάσαι δρόμῳ ¹⁰⁶⁰

mvp-comment-515-1 ἀμενηνὸν ¹⁰⁶¹ ὅπου ¹⁰⁶²

mvp-comment-516-1 ἰώ μοί μοι ¹⁰⁶³

mvp-comment-517-1 τίνος βοὴ ¹⁰⁶⁴ πάραυλος ¹⁰⁶⁵

mvp-comment-518-1 ἰὼ τλήμων ¹⁰⁶⁶

mvp-comment-519-1 δουρίληπτον ¹⁰⁶⁷

mvp-comment-519-2 οἴκτῳ … συγκεκραμένην ¹⁰⁶⁸

mvp-comment-520-1 ᾤχωκα ¹⁰⁶⁹

mvp-comment-520-2 διαπεπόρθημαι ¹⁰⁷⁰

mvp-comment-521-1 τί δ’ ἔστιν ¹⁰⁷¹

mvp-comment-522-1 ἡμῖν ¹⁰⁷²

mvp-comment-522-2 ἀρτίως νεοσφαγὴς ¹⁰⁷³

mvp-comment-523-1 κρυφαίῳ ¹⁰⁷⁴

mvp-comment-523-2 φας‐ ¹⁰⁷⁵ γάνῳ περιπτυχής ¹⁰⁷⁶

mvp-comment-524-1 ὤμοι ¹⁰⁷⁷

mvp-comment-525-1 ὤμοι, κατέπεφνες, ἄναξ … τάλας ¹⁰⁷⁸ τάλας ¹⁰⁷⁹

mvp-comment-526-1 ὦ ταλαίφρων γύναι ¹⁰⁸⁰

mvp-comment-527-1 ὡς ὧδε τοῦδ’ ἔχοντος ¹⁰⁸¹

mvp-comment-527-2 αἰάζειν ¹⁰⁸²

mvp-comment-528-1 τίνος ποτ’ ἆρ’ ἔπραξε ¹⁰⁸³ ἔπραξε ¹⁰⁸⁴ ἔρξε ¹⁰⁸⁵

mvp-comment-529-1 αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτοῦ ¹⁰⁸⁶

mvp-comment-529-2 ἐν γάρ οἱ χθονί ¹⁰⁸⁷ οἱ … πηκτὸν ¹⁰⁸⁸

mvp-comment-529-3 κατηγορεῖ ¹⁰⁸⁹

mvp-comment-529-4 περιπετὲς ¹⁰⁹⁰

mvp-comment-530-1 οἶος ¹⁰⁹¹

mvp-comment-530-2 ἄφρακτος ¹⁰⁹² φίλων ¹⁰⁹³

mvp-comment-531-1 κωφός ¹⁰⁹⁴

mvp-comment-532-1 δυστράπελος ¹⁰⁹⁵

mvp-comment-532-2 δυσώνυμος ¹⁰⁹⁶

mvp-comment-533-1 περιπτυχεῖ φάρει ¹⁰⁹⁷

mvp-comment-533-2 παμπήδην ¹⁰⁹⁸

mvp-comment-534-1 ὅστις καὶ φίλος ¹⁰⁹⁹

mvp-comment-535-1 φυσῶντ’ ἄνω πρὸς ῥῖνας ¹¹⁰⁰

mvp-comment-535-2 μελανθὲν ¹¹⁰¹ οἰκείας σφαγῆς ¹¹⁰²

mvp-comment-536-1 βαστάσει ¹¹⁰³

mvp-comment-537-1 ἀκμαἶ ἂν … μόλοι ¹¹⁰⁴ ἀκμαῖος … μόλοι ¹¹⁰⁵

mvp-comment-537-2 ἀκμαῖος, εἰ βαίη, μόλοι ¹¹⁰⁶

mvp-comment-538-1 συγκαθαρμόσαι ¹¹⁰⁷

mvp-comment-539-1 οἵως ἔχεις ¹¹⁰⁸

mvp-comment-540-1 ὡς … ἄξιος ¹¹⁰⁹ οἵως ἔχεις ¹¹¹⁰

mvp-comment-540-2 παρ’ ἐχθροῖς ¹¹¹¹

mvp-comment-540-3 τυχεῖν ¹¹¹²

mvp-comment-541-1 ἔμελλες ¹¹¹³

mvp-comment-542-1 στερεόφρων ¹¹¹⁴

mvp-comment-542-2 ἄῤ ¹¹¹⁵

mvp-comment-542-3 Erfurdt's insertion of ὧδ’ ¹¹¹⁶ ἐξανύσειν ¹¹¹⁷ οὐλίῳ ¹¹¹⁸

mvp-comment-543-1 τοῖα ¹¹¹⁹

mvp-comment-543-2 πάννυχα καὶ φαέθοντ’ ¹¹²⁰

mvp-comment-544-1 ὠμόφρων ¹¹²¹

mvp-comment-544-2 ἐχθοδόπ’ ¹¹²²

mvp-comment-544-3 οὐλίῳ σὺν πάθει ¹¹²³

mvp-comment-544-4 It is indeed possible to render οὐλίῳ σὺν πάθει ¹¹²⁴

mvp-comment-545-1 μέγας ¹¹²⁵ ἦν … ἄρχων ¹¹²⁶

mvp-comment-546-1 ἦμος ¹¹²⁷

mvp-comment-546-2 ἀριστόχειρ ἀγὼν ¹¹²⁸

mvp-comment-546-3 ὅπλων ¹¹²⁹ χρυσοδέτων ¹¹³⁰

mvp-comment-546-4

is the classical pf. pass. of ( being used in a middle sense). Cp. 572 f. .. | (n.).

mvp-comment-547-1 ἧπαρ ¹¹³¹

mvp-comment-547-2 γενναία ¹¹³²

mvp-comment-548-1 καὶ δὶς ¹¹³³ οἰμῶξαι ¹¹³⁴

mvp-comment-549-1 ἀποβλαφθεῖσαν … φίλου ¹¹³⁵

mvp-comment-549-2 ἀρτίως ¹¹³⁶ ἀρτίου ¹¹³⁷

mvp-comment-550-1 δοκεῖν ¹¹³⁸ φρονεῖν ¹¹³⁹

mvp-comment-551-1 δουλείας ζυγά ¹¹⁴⁰

mvp-comment-551-2 οἷοι ¹¹⁴¹

mvp-comment-551-3 σκοποί ¹¹⁴²

mvp-comment-552-1 ὤμοι, ἀναλγήτων ¹¹⁴³ τῷδ’ ἄχει ¹¹⁴⁴ ἀναλγήτων ¹¹⁴⁵ ἄναυδ’ | ἔργ’ ¹¹⁴⁶

mvp-comment-552-2 ἄχει ¹¹⁴⁷

mvp-comment-553-1 οὐκ ἂν τάδ’ ἔστη ¹¹⁴⁸ ἀλλ’ ἀπείργοι θεός ¹¹⁴⁹

mvp-comment-553-2 τάδ’ … τῇδε ¹¹⁵⁰

mvp-comment-553-3 ἔστη ¹¹⁵¹

mvp-comment-553-4 μὴ θεῶν μέτα ¹¹⁵²

mvp-comment-554-1 ἄγαν ὑπερβριθὲς ¹¹⁵³ γὰρ ¹¹⁵⁴ γ’ ¹¹⁵⁵ ἄγαν ¹¹⁵⁶ ἄχθος ¹¹⁵⁷

mvp-comment-555-1 μέντοι ¹¹⁵⁸

mvp-comment-555-2 Ζηνὸς ἡ δεινὴ θεὸς ¹¹⁵⁹

mvp-comment-556-1 ἦ ῥα ¹¹⁶⁰

mvp-comment-556-2 ἐφυβρίζει ¹¹⁶¹ κελαινώπαν θυμὸν ¹¹⁶²

mvp-comment-556-3 The form

occurs only here, though Pind. P. 1. 7 has the fem., . In Pind. P. 4. 212 he uses ( ): and Blaydes here gives κελαινῶπ’ ἀν θυμὸν ¹¹⁶³

mvp-comment-556-4 Schneidewin strangely understands, ‘Odysseus mocks at the frenzy-darkened soul of Ajax.’ Hartung writes κελαινῶπ’ ἔνθυμον ¹¹⁶⁴

mvp-comment-557-1 πολύτλας ¹¹⁶⁵

mvp-comment-558-1 γελᾷ δὲ ¹¹⁶⁶ γελᾷ τε ¹¹⁶⁷ γελᾷ ¹¹⁶⁸

mvp-comment-558-2 τοῖσδε … ἄχεσιν ¹¹⁶⁹

mvp-comment-558-3 μαινομένοις ¹¹⁷⁰

mvp-comment-559-1 ξύν τε ¹¹⁷¹

mvp-comment-560-1 οἱ δ’ οὖν ¹¹⁷²

mvp-comment-560-2 κεἰ … μὴ ¹¹⁷³

mvp-comment-560-3 )πόθουν ¹¹⁷⁴

mvp-comment-560-4 ἐν χρείᾳ δορός ¹¹⁷⁵

mvp-comment-561-1 κακοὶ γνώμαισι ¹¹⁷⁶

mvp-comment-561-2 τἀγαθὸν χεροῖν ¹¹⁷⁷ τἀγάθ’ ἐν χεροῖν ¹¹⁷⁸

mvp-comment-561-3 πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ ¹¹⁷⁹

mvp-comment-561-4 For the sentiment, cp. Mimnermus fr. 1 (in Nauck's Frag. Trag. 2nd ed., p. 829)

. Plaut. Capt. 1. 2. 39

Tum denique homines nostra intelligimus bona, | Quom quae in potestate habuimus ea amisimus.

C. 3. 24. 31

Virtutem incolumem odimus, | Sublatam ex oculis quaerimus invidi.

mvp-comment-562-1 Various theories of interpolation have been held with regard to this passage: see Appendix. Most of them are founded on the assumption that Tecmessa's former speech of ten lines (915—924) must be balanced by a speech of the same length here, and that therefore three of the thirteen verses (961— 973) must be struck out. (Nauck, who rejects 918 f., strikes out five verses here, 966—970.)

mvp-comment-562-2 As several objections arise from the alleged incoherence of the speech, it is well to observe the train of thought in 961—973.

mvp-comment-562-3 ‘Let them mock, if they will, at the fate of Ajax; they will perhaps find out, in time of need, what they have lost; foolish men never know their own good fortune till they have thrown it away (961—965). No, his death is no gain for them—though it is anguish for me: for him, it is the release which he desired (966—968). Why should they mock at him, then? They cannot even claim that his death was their work; it is the affair of the gods (969 f.). So Odysseus may exult, if he pleases, but it is an empty triumph. He and his friends have merely suffered a loss; Ajax is gone, —and has left nothing behind him but the sorrow which is mine’ (971—973).

mvp-comment-562-4 ἐμοὶ πικρὸς ¹¹⁸⁰ ἢ ¹¹⁸¹ ᾗ, εἰ, ὡς, καὶ ¹¹⁸² γλυκύς ¹¹⁸³

mvp-comment-562-5 θάνατον ¹¹⁸⁴ ὧν ¹¹⁸⁵

mvp-comment-563-1 ἐπεγγελῷεν ¹¹⁸⁶ κάτα ¹¹⁸⁷ ἐγγελῷεν ¹¹⁸⁸ τοῦδ’ ¹¹⁸⁹

mvp-comment-564-1 θεοῖς ¹¹⁹⁰

mvp-comment-565-1 πρὸς ταῦτ’ ¹¹⁹¹

mvp-comment-565-2 ἐν κενοῖς ¹¹⁹²

mvp-comment-565-3 972 f. There is no stress on αὐτοῖς ¹¹⁹³

mvp-comment-566-1 ἄτης … ἐπίσκοπον ¹¹⁹⁴

mvp-comment-566-2 μέλος ¹¹⁹⁵

mvp-comment-567-1 ξύναιμον ὄμμ’ ¹¹⁹⁶

mvp-comment-568-1 ἠμπόληκας ¹¹⁹⁷ ἠμπόληκά ς’ ¹¹⁹⁸

mvp-comment-569-1 ὤμοι ¹¹⁹⁹

mvp-comment-570-1 ὡς ὧδ’ ἐχόντων ¹²⁰⁰

mvp-comment-571-1 περισπερχὲς ¹²⁰¹

mvp-comment-572-1 τί γὰρ ¹²⁰² ποῦ … κυρεῖ ¹²⁰³

mvp-comment-572-2 μοι ¹²⁰⁴

mvp-comment-573-1 μόνος ¹²⁰⁵

mvp-comment-573-2 δῆτ’ αὐτὸν ἄξεις ¹²⁰⁶

mvp-comment-573-3 κενῆς ¹²⁰⁷ κενῆς ¹²⁰⁸

mvp-comment-574-1 ἐγκόνει ¹²⁰⁹ σύγκαμνε ¹²¹⁰

mvp-comment-574-2 κειμένοις ¹²¹¹ θανοῦσι ¹²¹² θανοῦσι ¹²¹³

mvp-comment-575-1 καὶ μὴν ¹²¹⁴

mvp-comment-575-2 τοῦδε ¹²¹⁵ μέλειν ¹²¹⁶

mvp-comment-575-3 ὥσπερ οὖν ¹²¹⁷

mvp-comment-576-1 ἁπάντων δὴ ¹²¹⁸

mvp-comment-576-2 θεαμάτων … προσεῖδον ὀφθαλμοῖς ¹²¹⁹

mvp-comment-577-1 ὁδός θ’ ὁδῶν πασῶν ¹²²⁰ ὁδῶν θ’ ἁπασῶν ὁδὸς ἀνιάσασα δή ¹²²¹ πασῶν ¹²²²

mvp-comment-577-2 ἀνιάσασα δή ¹²²³

mvp-comment-577-3

emphasises the pron., as in 1029, 1043, 1045, and often.

mvp-comment-578-1 ὡς ἐπῃσθόμην ¹²²⁴

mvp-comment-578-2 διώκων ¹²²⁵

mvp-comment-578-3 κἀξιχνοσκοπούμενος ¹²²⁶

mvp-comment-579-1 βάξις ¹²²⁷

mvp-comment-579-2 σου ¹²²⁸ θεοῦ ¹²²⁹

mvp-comment-579-3 διῆλθ’ Ἀχαιοὺς ¹²³⁰

mvp-comment-579-4 In sending this

to Teucer, Zeus illustrates his attribute of ( Il. 8. 250 ).

mvp-comment-580-1 δύστηνος ¹²³¹ δείλαιος ¹²³² ἐκποδὼν μὲν ὢν ¹²³³ νῦν δ’ ὁρῶν ¹²³⁴

mvp-comment-580-2 ὑπεστέναζον ¹²³⁵

mvp-comment-581-1 ἴθ’, ἐκκάλυψον ¹²³⁶

mvp-comment-582-1 ὄμμα ¹²³⁷ τόλμης πικρᾶς ¹²³⁸

mvp-comment-582-2 Eustathius (p. 409, 46), whom some critics follow, takes the gen. as depending on ὦ ¹²³⁹ καὶ ¹²⁴⁰

mvp-comment-582-3 1006 f. For the dat. μοι ¹²⁴¹

mvp-comment-582-4 1008 The ironical ἦ που ¹²⁴² ἴσως ¹²⁴³ ἴσως ¹²⁴⁴ ἰδὼν ¹²⁴⁵ ἐμός θ’ ἅμα ¹²⁴⁶

mvp-comment-583-1 πῶς γὰρ οὔχ ¹²⁴⁷

mvp-comment-583-2 ὅτῳ πάρα ¹²⁴⁸ γελᾶν ¹²⁴⁹

mvp-comment-583-3 The v.l. ἵλεων ¹²⁵⁰ ἥδιον ¹²⁵¹

mvp-comment-584-1 τί κρύψει ¹²⁵²

mvp-comment-584-2 ποῖον οὐκ ἐρεῖ κακὸν ¹²⁵³ ἐκ δορὸς γεγῶτα πολεμίου ¹²⁵⁴

mvp-comment-585-1 κακανδρίᾳ ¹²⁵⁵ σέ, φίλτατ’ Αἴας ¹²⁵⁶

mvp-comment-585-2 τὰ σὰ … θανόντος ¹²⁵⁷

mvp-comment-585-3 κράτη ¹²⁵⁸ δόμους ¹²⁵⁹

mvp-comment-586-1 δύσοργος ¹²⁶⁰ ἐν γήρᾳ βαρύς ¹²⁶¹

mvp-comment-586-2 πρὸς οὐδὲν ¹²⁶²

mvp-comment-586-3 εἰς ἔριν θυμούμενος ¹²⁶³

mvp-comment-586-4 1019 Join ἀπωστὸς ¹²⁶⁴ γῆς ¹²⁶⁵

mvp-comment-586-5 ἀπορριφθήσομαι ¹²⁶⁶

mvp-comment-586-6 In the Teucer of Pacuvius, fr. 19 (ed. Ribbeck), Telamon says to Teucer, Te repudio nec recipio: naturam abdico: facesse , i. Pacuvius probably used the lost

of Sophocles, which dealt with the hero's expulsion from Salamis by Telamon. The reference to the subject here may be compared with that in the O. C.(1410) to the theme of the Antigone, and with the allusion in the Philoctetes (1437) to the theme of the poet's lost play, ‘Philoctetes at Troy.’

mvp-comment-587-1 δοῦλος λόγοισιν … φανείς ¹²⁶⁷ λόγοισιν ¹²⁶⁸ ἀντ’ ἐλευθέρου ¹²⁶⁹

mvp-comment-588-1 παῦρα ¹²⁷⁰

mvp-comment-589-1 ηὑρόμην ¹²⁷¹

mvp-comment-590-1 τοῦδ’ αἰόλου κνώδοντος ¹²⁷²

mvp-comment-590-2 Lycophron borrows the word

from this passage, in alluding to the suicide of Ajax (464): .—For the ἄρα ¹²⁷³ φονέως ¹²⁷⁴

mvp-comment-590-3 εἶδες ¹²⁷⁵

mvp-comment-591-1 καὶ θανὼν ἀποφθίσειν ¹²⁷⁶

mvp-comment-591-2 1028—

mvp-comment-592-1 σκέψασθε … κἀγὼ τάδε ¹²⁷⁷

mvp-comment-593-1 ᾧ δὴ τοῦδ’ ἐδωρήθη πάρα ¹²⁷⁸ ᾧ δὴ ¹²⁷⁹

mvp-comment-594-1 πρισθεὶς … ἐξ ἀντύγων ¹²⁸⁰

mvp-comment-594-2 Thus

is forcibly used here to describe the fatal grip of the girdle, from which Hector could not escape. I do not think that the word was meant also to suggest that the girdle cut into his flesh.—Paley is surely mistaken in explaining as ‘ lacerated by means of the girdle’: could not bear that sense, which is expressed in the next verse by .

mvp-comment-594-3 ἀντύγων ¹²⁸¹ ἱππικῶν ¹²⁸²

mvp-comment-595-1 ἐκνάπτετ’ ¹²⁸³

mvp-comment-595-2 ἔστ’ ἀπέψυξεν βίον ¹²⁸⁴

mvp-comment-595-3 As a matter of verbal criticism, it might be observed that

and confirm each other. But the defence of the text rests on broader ground. Evidently we must either reject the whole passage 1028 —1039, as Morstadt and Nauck do, or else leave this verse unaltered. For the parallel between the sword and the girdle, as fatal to their respective recipients, would fail altogether, if the girdle had not been an agent of death to Hector, but merely of insult to his corpse. It is not known whence Sophocles derived this version, which so strangely mars the very climax of the Iliad; possibly from one of the two Cyclic epics, the Aethiopis of Arctînus or the Little Iliad of Lesches, which related the (see Introd. §§ 2, 3). One thing, at least, seems hardly doubtful. The original motive of this version must have been the same which prompts its use by Sophocles here, —viz., to point the fatal character of Hector's gift to Ajax by connecting a like result with the gift of Ajax to Hector. Two epigrams, attributed to Leontius Scholasticus ( circ. 550 A.D. ), turn on the same legend ( Anthol. 7. 151, 152): see Appendix.

mvp-comment-596-1 δωρεὰν ἔχων ¹²⁸⁵

mvp-comment-597-1 πρὸς τοῦδ’ ¹²⁸⁶ τοῦ κνώδοντος ¹²⁸⁷

mvp-comment-598-1 Ἐρινὺς … ἐχάλκευσε ¹²⁸⁸

mvp-comment-598-2

. From a verb of more general sense, such as , is to be supplied: cp. Her. 4. 106 : see also n. on El. 435 . —Some critics think that might be said of the no less than of the , because a girdle was often adorned with metal-work (see, e.g., Il. 11. 236 ). This seems a little forced.

mvp-comment-598-3 δημιουργὸς ¹²⁸⁹

mvp-comment-599-1 ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ¹²⁹⁰ μηχανᾶν ¹²⁹¹

mvp-comment-600-1 ἐν γνώμῃ φίλα ¹²⁹²

mvp-comment-600-2 κεῖνός τ’ ἐκεῖνα ¹²⁹³

mvp-comment-601-1 μὴ τεῖνε μακράν ¹²⁹⁴

mvp-comment-602-1 κακοῖς γελῶν ¹²⁹⁵

mvp-comment-602-2 ἃ δὴ ¹²⁹⁶

mvp-comment-603-1 τίς δ’ ἐστὶν ὅντιν’ ἄνδρα ¹²⁹⁷

mvp-comment-604-1 ᾧ δὴ ¹²⁹⁸

mvp-comment-604-2 πλοῦν ἐστείλαμεν ¹²⁹⁹

mvp-comment-605-1 μαθεῖν οὐ δυσπετής ¹³⁰⁰

mvp-comment-606-1 οὗτος, σὲ φωνῶ ¹³⁰¹

mvp-comment-606-2 νεκρὸν … συγκομίζειν ¹³⁰²

mvp-comment-607-1 ἀνήλωσας ¹³⁰³

mvp-comment-607-2 The slow movement of the verse (with only quasi-caesura after the 3rd foot) is intended to mark haughty surprise. Cp. Ant. 44

mvp-comment-608-1 δοκοῦντ’ ἐμοί ¹³⁰⁴

mvp-comment-608-2 δοκοῦντα δ’ ¹³⁰⁵ ὃς κραίνει στρατοῦ ¹³⁰⁶

mvp-comment-609-1 προθείς ¹³⁰⁷

mvp-comment-610-1 ἐλπίσαντες … ἄγειν ¹³⁰⁸

mvp-comment-611-1 ζητοῦντες ¹³⁰⁹

mvp-comment-611-2 Φρυγῶν ¹³¹⁰ Τρώων ¹³¹¹

mvp-comment-612-1 στρατῷ ξύμπαντι ¹³¹²

mvp-comment-613-1 δορί ¹³¹³

mvp-comment-614-1 θεῶν τις ¹³¹⁴

mvp-comment-614-2 ἔσβεσεν ¹³¹⁵

mvp-comment-615-1 τήνδ’ … τύχην ¹³¹⁶ θανόντες ¹³¹⁷ ἣν ὅδ’ εἴληχεν τύχην ¹³¹⁸ τήνδ’ ¹³¹⁹ λαχόντες ¹³²⁰

mvp-comment-615-2 προὐκείμεθ’ ¹³²¹

mvp-comment-615-3 αἰσχίστῳ ¹³²² ἐχθίστῳ ¹³²³ ἀθλίῳ ¹³²⁴

mvp-comment-616-1 ἐνήλλαξεν ¹³²⁵

mvp-comment-616-2 μῆλα καὶ ποίμνας ¹³²⁶

mvp-comment-616-3 1062 f. The acc. αὐτὸν ¹³²⁷ σῶμα ¹³²⁸

mvp-comment-616-4 τυμβεῦσαι τάφῳ ¹³²⁹

mvp-comment-617-1 ἀμφὶ … ψάμαθον ¹³³⁰

mvp-comment-617-2 χλωρὰν ¹³³¹

mvp-comment-617-3 λευρὰν ¹³³²

mvp-comment-618-1 ὄρνισι ¹³³³

mvp-comment-619-1 πρὸς ταῦτα ¹³³⁴

mvp-comment-619-2 ἐξάρῃς ¹³³⁵

mvp-comment-620-1 εἰ … μὴ )δυνήθημεν ¹³³⁶

mvp-comment-621-1 χερσὶν παρευθύνοντες ¹³³⁷ χερσὶν ¹³³⁸ ὅπου ¹³³⁹

mvp-comment-622-1 κακοῦ πρὸς ἀνδρὸς ¹³⁴⁰

mvp-comment-622-2 ἄνδρα ¹³⁴¹ ὄντα ¹³⁴²

mvp-comment-623-1 καλῶς φέροιντ’ ἄν ¹³⁴³

mvp-comment-623-2 ἔνθα μὴ ¹³⁴⁴

mvp-comment-624-1 φόβου πρόβλημα ¹³⁴⁵

mvp-comment-624-2 αἰδοῦς ¹³⁴⁶

mvp-comment-625-1 κἂν σῶμα γεννήσῃ μέγα ¹³⁴⁷

mvp-comment-625-2 κἂν ἀπὸ σμ. κακοῦ ¹³⁴⁸ κἂν ¹³⁴⁹ ἀπὸ ¹³⁵⁰

mvp-comment-626-1 πρόσεστιν ¹³⁵¹

mvp-comment-626-2 αἰσχύνη ¹³⁵²

mvp-comment-627-1 ὅπου … παρῇ ¹³⁵³

mvp-comment-627-2 βούλεται ¹³⁵⁴

mvp-comment-628-1 νόμιζε ¹³⁵⁵ χρόνῳ ποτὲ … πεσεῖν ¹³⁵⁶ ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν ¹³⁵⁷ ποτ’ ἂν ¹³⁵⁸

mvp-comment-628-2 ἐξ οὐρίων ¹³⁵⁹

mvp-comment-629-1 ἑστάτω ¹³⁶⁰

mvp-comment-629-2 μοι ¹³⁶¹

mvp-comment-629-3 καὶ δέος ¹³⁶² καίριον ¹³⁶³

mvp-comment-630-1 ἃν ἡδώμεθα ¹³⁶⁴

mvp-comment-630-2 οὐκ ἀντιτείσειν ¹³⁶⁵ ἃν λυπώμεθα ¹³⁶⁶

mvp-comment-631-1 παραλλὰξ ¹³⁶⁷ αἴθων ¹³⁶⁸

mvp-comment-632-1 ὅπως | μὴ ¹³⁶⁹

mvp-comment-633-1 εἰς ταφὰς πέσῃς ¹³⁷⁰

mvp-comment-634-1 ὑποστήσας ¹³⁷¹

mvp-comment-634-2 ἐν θανοῦσιν ¹³⁷²

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

which defies human laws. But his own menaces the laws of the gods.

mvp-comment-635-1 ἄνδρες ¹³⁷³

mvp-comment-636-1 μηδὲν ὢν γοναῖσιν ¹³⁷⁴

mvp-comment-637-1 τοιαῦθ’ ἁμαρτάνουσιν … ἔπη ¹³⁷⁵

mvp-comment-638-1 ἄγειν ¹³⁷⁶ λαβών ¹³⁷⁷

mvp-comment-639-1 αὐτὸς ¹³⁷⁸

mvp-comment-640-1 ποῦ ¹³⁷⁹

mvp-comment-640-2 λεῶν ¹³⁸⁰

mvp-comment-641-1 ἤγαγ’ ¹³⁸¹ ἡγεῖτ’ ¹³⁸² ὧν ¹³⁸³ ἦγεν ¹³⁸⁴ ἤγετ’ ¹³⁸⁵

mvp-comment-642-1 οὐδ’ ἔσθ’ ὅπου ¹³⁸⁶ τόνδε κοσμῆσαι ¹³⁸⁷

mvp-comment-642-2 ἀρχῆς … θεσμὸς ¹³⁸⁸ ἔκειτο ¹³⁸⁹

mvp-comment-642-3 ἢ καὶ τῷδε σέ ¹³⁹⁰

mvp-comment-643-1 ὅλων ¹³⁹¹ σύμπαντες ¹³⁹²

mvp-comment-643-2 Apart from the difficulty as to

, there is absolutely no ground for rejecting verses 1105 f., as Schneidewin and other critics have done.

mvp-comment-644-1 ὧνπερ ἄρχεις αρχε ¹³⁹³

mvp-comment-644-2 τὰ σέμν’ ἔπη κόλαζ’ ἐκείνους ¹³⁹⁴

mvp-comment-644-3 εἴτε μὴ σὺ φής, εἴθ’ ἅτερος στρ ¹³⁹⁵

mvp-comment-644-4 εἰς ταφὰς θήσω ¹³⁹⁶

mvp-comment-644-5 στόμα ¹³⁹⁷

mvp-comment-645-1 οἱ πόνου πολλοῦ πλέῳ ¹³⁹⁸

mvp-comment-645-2 Assuredly

does not mean ‘busybodies,’ , as some have taken it,—supposing it to be said scornfully of tributary to Menelaüs and eager to display their zeal.

mvp-comment-646-1 ὅρκων ¹³⁹⁹

mvp-comment-647-1 σοῦ δ’ οὐδὲν ¹⁴⁰⁰

mvp-comment-647-2 τοὺς μηδένας ¹⁴⁰¹

mvp-comment-648-1 κήρυκας ¹⁴⁰²

mvp-comment-649-1 ψόφου … στραφείην ¹⁴⁰³

mvp-comment-649-2 ἕως ¹⁴⁰⁴ ὡς ¹⁴⁰⁵ ὡς ἂν ᾖς ¹⁴⁰⁶

mvp-comment-650-1 οὐδ’ αὖ ¹⁴⁰⁷

mvp-comment-650-2 ἐν κακοῖς ¹⁴⁰⁸

mvp-comment-651-1 ὁ τοξότης ¹⁴⁰⁹

mvp-comment-652-1 βάναυσον ¹⁴¹⁰

mvp-comment-653-1 ἀσπίδ’ ¹⁴¹¹

mvp-comment-654-1 ψιλὸς … ὡπλισμένῳ ¹⁴¹²

mvp-comment-655-1 τρέφει ¹⁴¹³

mvp-comment-656-1 ξὺν τῷ δικαίῳ ¹⁴¹⁴

mvp-comment-657-1 δίκαια ¹⁴¹⁵

mvp-comment-657-2 κτείναντα ¹⁴¹⁶

mvp-comment-658-1 δεινόν γ’ εἶπας ¹⁴¹⁷

mvp-comment-658-2 εἰ καὶ ζῇς ¹⁴¹⁸

mvp-comment-659-1 τῷδε δ’ οἴχομαι ¹⁴¹⁹

mvp-comment-660-1 ἀτίμα ¹⁴²⁰

mvp-comment-660-2 θεοὺς ¹⁴²¹

mvp-comment-660-3 θεοῖς σεσωσμένος ¹⁴²²

mvp-comment-661-1 ἐγὼ γὰρ ἂν ψέξαιμι ¹⁴²³ δαιμόνων νόμους ¹⁴²⁴

mvp-comment-661-2 εἰ … οὐκ ἐᾷς ¹⁴²⁵

mvp-comment-661-3 παρών ¹⁴²⁶

mvp-comment-662-1 τούς γ’ αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ ¹⁴²⁷ αὐτοῦ ¹⁴²⁸ οὐ γὰρ καλόν ¹⁴²⁹

mvp-comment-663-1 σοὶ … προὔστη ¹⁴³⁰

mvp-comment-664-1 μισοῦντ’ ἐμίσει ¹⁴³¹

mvp-comment-665-1 ψηφοποιὸς ¹⁴³²

mvp-comment-665-2 The gen. αὐτοῦ ¹⁴³³

mvp-comment-666-1 ἐν τοῖς δικασταῖς ¹⁴³⁴

mvp-comment-667-1 καλῶς ¹⁴³⁵ κακῶς ¹⁴³⁶

mvp-comment-667-2 κλέψειας κακά ¹⁴³⁷

mvp-comment-668-1 εἰς ἀνίαν … ἔρχεται ¹⁴³⁸ τινί ¹⁴³⁹ ἔρχεται τινί ¹⁴⁴⁰

mvp-comment-669-1 οὐ μᾶλλον ¹⁴⁴¹

mvp-comment-670-1 τόνδ’ ἐστὶν οὐχὶ θαπτέον ¹⁴⁴²

mvp-comment-671-1 ἀλλ’ ἀντακούσει τοῦτον ὡς ¹⁴⁴³ τοῦθ’ ἕν ¹⁴⁴⁴

mvp-comment-671-2 τεθάψεται ¹⁴⁴⁵

mvp-comment-672-1 ναύτας ἐφορμήσαντα … τὸ | πλεῖν ¹⁴⁴⁶ vαύταις ¹⁴⁴⁷ ναύτας ¹⁴⁴⁸

mvp-comment-673-1 ᾧ φθέγμ’ ἂν οὐκ ἂν ηὗρες ¹⁴⁴⁹ ἄν ¹⁴⁵⁰ ᾧ ¹⁴⁵¹

mvp-comment-673-2 ἐν κακῷ χειμῶνος ¹⁴⁵²

mvp-comment-673-3 εἴχετ’ ¹⁴⁵³

mvp-comment-673-4 ὑφ’ εἵματος ¹⁴⁵⁴

mvp-comment-673-5 κρυφείς ¹⁴⁵⁵

mvp-comment-674-1 πατεῖν παρεῖχε ¹⁴⁵⁶

mvp-comment-675-1 καὶ δὲ καὶ τὸ σὸν … στόμα ¹⁴⁵⁷

mvp-comment-675-2 λάβρον στόμα ¹⁴⁵⁸

mvp-comment-675-3 σμικροῦ νέφους … ἐκπνεύσας ¹⁴⁵⁹

mvp-comment-676-1 τὴν … βοήν ¹⁴⁶⁰

mvp-comment-677-1 ἐν κακοῖς ὕβριζε ¹⁴⁶¹

mvp-comment-678-1 κᾆτ’ ¹⁴⁶²

mvp-comment-679-1 ὀργήν ¹⁴⁶³

mvp-comment-680-1 ποήσεις ¹⁴⁶⁴

mvp-comment-680-2 πημανούμενος ¹⁴⁶⁵

mvp-comment-681-1 ἄνολβον ¹⁴⁶⁶

mvp-comment-681-2 παρών ¹⁴⁶⁷

mvp-comment-682-1 μῶν ᾐνιξάμην ¹⁴⁶⁸

mvp-comment-683-1 πάρα ¹⁴⁶⁹

mvp-comment-683-2 1163 The anapaests serve not only to mark the exit of Menelaüs, but also to afford a pause before the entrance of Tecmessa at 1168. For their bearing on the date of the play, see Introd. § 21.— ἔριδός τις ἀγών ¹⁴⁷⁰

mvp-comment-684-1 κάπετον ¹⁴⁷¹

mvp-comment-684-2 ἰδεῖν ¹⁴⁷²

mvp-comment-685-1 βροτοῖς τὸν ἀείμνηστον ¹⁴⁷³

mvp-comment-685-2 εὐρώεντα ¹⁴⁷⁴

mvp-comment-685-3 The legendary tomb of Ajax was shown on the coast of the Troad near Cape Rhoeteum; Strabo 13. p. 595

. Alexander the Great, on landing in the Troad, offered at the tomb of Ajax as well as at that of Achilles ( Diod. 17. 17 ). There were legends of gigantic bones having been found in the tomb ( Paus. 1. 35. 5 ).

mvp-comment-686-1 καὶ μὴν ¹⁴⁷⁵

mvp-comment-686-2 ἐς αὐτὸν καιρὸν ¹⁴⁷⁶ πλησίον ¹⁴⁷⁷

mvp-comment-686-3 Tecmessa had left the scene after v. 989, in order to bring the child Eurysaces from the tent, where he had been left when she set forth in search of Ajax (810). The part of Tecmessa is now taken by a mute person, as the deuteragonist has presently to resume the part of Odysseus (1318).

mvp-comment-686-4 τάφον περιστελοῦντε ¹⁴⁷⁸ περιστελοῦντι ¹⁴⁷⁹

mvp-comment-687-1 ἱκέτης ¹⁴⁸⁰

mvp-comment-687-2 While the child knelt as a suppliant by the body, with his hand upon it, the corpse could not be forcibly removed without offence to Zeus

. Teucer is about to go and seek a place for the grave (1184), and he desires to secure that the body shall not be disturbed during his absence.

mvp-comment-687-3 ὅς σ’ ἐγείνατο ¹⁴⁸¹

mvp-comment-688-1 θάκει δὲ προστρόπαιος ¹⁴⁸²

mvp-comment-688-2 κόμας ¹⁴⁸³

mvp-comment-688-3 τρίτου ¹⁴⁸⁴

mvp-comment-689-1 ἱκτήριον θησαυρόν ¹⁴⁸⁵

mvp-comment-690-1 κακὸς κακῶς ¹⁴⁸⁶

mvp-comment-690-2 ἄθαπτος ἐκπέσοι χθονός ¹⁴⁸⁷

mvp-comment-690-3 ἐκπέσοι ¹⁴⁸⁸

mvp-comment-691-1 γένους ἅπαντος ¹⁴⁸⁹

mvp-comment-691-2 ῥίζαν ἐξημημένος ¹⁴⁹⁰

mvp-comment-692-1 αὔτως ¹⁴⁹¹

mvp-comment-692-2 ὅπωσπερ τόνδ’ ἐγὼ τέμνω πλόκον ¹⁴⁹²

mvp-comment-693-1 κινησάτω ¹⁴⁹³ προσπεσὼν ¹⁴⁹⁴ ἔχου ¹⁴⁹⁵

mvp-comment-694-1 ὑμεῖς τε ¹⁴⁹⁶ δὲ ¹⁴⁹⁷ τε ¹⁴⁹⁸

mvp-comment-694-2 ἀντ’ ἀνδρῶν ¹⁴⁹⁹

mvp-comment-695-1 ἔστ’ ¹⁵⁰⁰

mvp-comment-695-2 τάφου μεληθεὶς ¹⁵⁰¹

mvp-comment-695-3 κἂν μηδεὶς ἐᾷ ¹⁵⁰²

mvp-comment-696-1 νέατος ¹⁵⁰³ νέατος ¹⁵⁰⁴

mvp-comment-696-2 πολυπλάγκτων ¹⁵⁰⁵

mvp-comment-697-1 τὰν ἄπαυστον ¹⁵⁰⁶

mvp-comment-698-1 δορυσσοήτων ¹⁵⁰⁷ δορυσσόων ¹⁵⁰⁸ δορυσσῶν ¹⁵⁰⁹

mvp-comment-699-1 ἀν τὰν εὐρώδεα Τρωΐαν ¹⁵¹⁰ ἀν ¹⁵¹¹

mvp-comment-700-1 δύστανον ὄνειδος Ἑλλάνων ¹⁵¹²

mvp-comment-701-1 ὄφελε ¹⁵¹³

mvp-comment-701-2 αἰθέρα δῦναι μέγαν ¹⁵¹⁴

mvp-comment-701-3 πολύκοινον Ἅιδαν ¹⁵¹⁵

mvp-comment-702-1 κεῖνος ἁνὴρ ¹⁵¹⁶

mvp-comment-702-2 ἔδειξεν ¹⁵¹⁷

mvp-comment-702-3 κοινὸν Ἄρη ¹⁵¹⁸

mvp-comment-703-1 ἰὼ πόνοι πρόγονοι πόνων ¹⁵¹⁹

mvp-comment-704-1 οὔτε στεφάνων ¹⁵²⁰

mvp-comment-704-2 στεφάνων ¹⁵²¹

mvp-comment-705-1 βαθειᾶν ¹⁵²²

mvp-comment-705-2 κυλίκων ¹⁵²³

mvp-comment-706-1 νεῖμεν ¹⁵²⁴ τέρψιν ¹⁵²⁵ ὁμιλεῖν ¹⁵²⁶

mvp-comment-707-1 αὐλῶν ¹⁵²⁷

mvp-comment-707-2 ὄτοβον ¹⁵²⁸

mvp-comment-708-1 δύσμορος ¹⁵²⁹

mvp-comment-708-2 ἐννυχίαν τέρψιν ἰαύειν ¹⁵³⁰

mvp-comment-708-3 Remark the repetition of τέρψιν ¹⁵³¹

mvp-comment-709-1 ἐρώτων δ’, ἐρώτων ¹⁵³²

mvp-comment-710-1 ἀμέριμνος ¹⁵³³

mvp-comment-710-2 οὕτως ¹⁵³⁴

mvp-comment-711-1 δρόσοις ¹⁵³⁵

mvp-comment-712-1 μνήματα ¹⁵³⁶

mvp-comment-713-1 αἰὲν νυχίου ¹⁵³⁷ προβολὰ ¹⁵³⁸

mvp-comment-714-1 ἀνεῖται στυγερῷ δαίμονι ¹⁵³⁹

mvp-comment-715-1 ἐπέσται ¹⁵⁴⁰

mvp-comment-716-1 γενοίμαν ¹⁵⁴¹

mvp-comment-716-2 ὑλᾶεν ¹⁵⁴²

mvp-comment-716-3 ἔπεστι πόντου | πρόβλημ’ ¹⁵⁴³ ἔπεστι ¹⁵⁴⁴

mvp-comment-717-1 ὑπὸ πλάκα Σουνίου ¹⁵⁴⁵

mvp-comment-718-1 τὰς ἱερὰς ¹⁵⁴⁶

mvp-comment-718-2 ὅπως … προσείποιμεν ¹⁵⁴⁷

mvp-comment-718-3 Pausanias says (1. 28. 2), referring to the colossal Athena Promachos on the Acropolis,

. As Leake observed ( Demi I. p. 631), Cape Zoster, some miles N.W. of Sunium, is the first point on the Attic coast from which a voyager could possibly have caught a glimpse of the spear-point and crest.

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ μὴν ¹⁵⁴⁸

mvp-comment-719-2 ἡμῖν ¹⁵⁴⁹ δῆλος ¹⁵⁵⁰

mvp-comment-719-3 μοὐστὶ ¹⁵⁵¹

mvp-comment-719-4 σκαιὸν … στόμα ¹⁵⁵²

mvp-comment-719-5 ἐκλύσων ¹⁵⁵³

mvp-comment-720-1 σὲ δὴ ¹⁵⁵⁴

mvp-comment-720-2 τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματ’ ¹⁵⁵⁵

mvp-comment-720-3 ἀνοιμωκτὶ ¹⁵⁵⁶ ι ¹⁵⁵⁷ ει ¹⁵⁵⁸

mvp-comment-720-4 χανεῖν ῥήματα ¹⁵⁵⁹

mvp-comment-721-1 σέ τοι ¹⁵⁶⁰

mvp-comment-721-2 τὸν ἐκ τῆς ¹⁵⁶¹

mvp-comment-722-1 τραφεὶς ¹⁵⁶²

mvp-comment-722-2 ὑψήλ’ ἐφώνεις ¹⁵⁶³

mvp-comment-722-3 κἀπ’ ἄκρων ὡδοιπόρεις ¹⁵⁶⁴

mvp-comment-723-1 ὅτε ¹⁵⁶⁵

mvp-comment-723-2 οὐδὲν ὢν ¹⁵⁶⁶ τοῦ μηδὲν … ὕπερ ¹⁵⁶⁷

mvp-comment-724-1 κοὔτε στρατηγοὺς ¹⁵⁶⁸

mvp-comment-724-2 οὔτε ναυάρχους ¹⁵⁶⁹

mvp-comment-724-3 Ἀχαιῶν οὔτε σοῦ ¹⁵⁷⁰

mvp-comment-724-4 διωμόσω ¹⁵⁷¹

mvp-comment-725-1 αὐτὸς ἄρχων … ἔπλει ¹⁵⁷²

mvp-comment-726-1 δούλων ¹⁵⁷³

mvp-comment-727-1 ποίου κέκραγας ἀνδρὸς ¹⁵⁷⁴

mvp-comment-728-1 ποῖ βάντος ¹⁵⁷⁵

mvp-comment-729-1 ἄνδρες ¹⁵⁷⁶

mvp-comment-730-1 πικροὺς ¹⁵⁷⁷

mvp-comment-730-2 ἔοιγμεν ¹⁵⁷⁸

mvp-comment-730-3 ὅπλων ἀγῶνας ¹⁵⁷⁹

mvp-comment-730-4 τότε ¹⁵⁸⁰

mvp-comment-731-1 πανταχοῦ ¹⁵⁸¹

mvp-comment-731-2 ἐκ Τεύκρου ¹⁵⁸²

mvp-comment-732-1 κοὐκ ἀρκέσει ¹⁵⁸³ εἰ ¹⁵⁸⁴

mvp-comment-733-1 εἴκειν ἃ … ἤρεσκεν ¹⁵⁸⁵

mvp-comment-734-1 κακοῖς βαλεῖτε ¹⁵⁸⁶

mvp-comment-734-2 σὺν δόλῳ ¹⁵⁸⁷

mvp-comment-734-3 κεντήσεθ’ ¹⁵⁸⁸

mvp-comment-734-4 οἱ λελειμμένοι ¹⁵⁸⁹

mvp-comment-735-1 ἐκ τῶνδε … τῶν τρόπων ¹⁵⁹⁰

mvp-comment-735-2 κατάστασις ¹⁵⁹¹

mvp-comment-736-1 τοὺς … νικῶντας ¹⁵⁹²

mvp-comment-736-2 ἐξωθήσομεν ¹⁵⁹³

mvp-comment-736-3 τοὺς ὄπισθεν ¹⁵⁹⁴

mvp-comment-737-1 εἰρκτέον τάδ’ ¹⁵⁹⁵ πλατεῖς ¹⁵⁹⁶ εὐρύνωτοι ¹⁵⁹⁷

mvp-comment-738-1 οἱ φρονοῦντες εὖ ¹⁵⁹⁸

mvp-comment-739-1 ὑπὸ … πορεύεται ¹⁵⁹⁹

mvp-comment-739-2 σμικρᾶς ¹⁶⁰⁰

mvp-comment-739-3 ὀρθὸς ¹⁶⁰¹

mvp-comment-740-1 φάρμακον ¹⁶⁰²

mvp-comment-740-2 νοῦν κατακτήσει ¹⁶⁰³ τινά ¹⁶⁰⁴

mvp-comment-741-1 ἀνδρὸς οὐκέτ’ ὄντος ¹⁶⁰⁵ ὑβρίζεις ¹⁶⁰⁶

mvp-comment-741-2 σκιᾶς ¹⁶⁰⁷

mvp-comment-742-1 οὐ σωφρονήσεις ¹⁶⁰⁸

mvp-comment-742-2 μαθὼν ὃς εἶ φύσιν ¹⁶⁰⁹

mvp-comment-743-1 ἄλλον τιν’ … ἐλεύθερον ¹⁶¹⁰

mvp-comment-744-1 ἀντὶ σοῦ λέξει τὰ σά ¹⁶¹¹

mvp-comment-745-1 σοῦ … λέγοντος ¹⁶¹² μάθοιμ’ ¹⁶¹³ οὐκέτ’ ¹⁶¹⁴

mvp-comment-746-1 βάρβαρον ¹⁶¹⁵

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐπαΐω ¹⁶¹⁶

mvp-comment-747-1 φράσαι ¹⁶¹⁷