Sophocles Ajax 1150

Richard Jebb (Translator)

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Ajax. Sophocles. Richard Jebb (Translator). Cambridge. 1893.

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Current edition Experimental

Ajax (English) (Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (4)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 1161-1196 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)) — 1150 focus
ἐγὼ δέ γ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ὄπωπα μωρίας πλέων,
1150
ὃς οἷσ ὅσ ἐν κακοῖς ὕβριζε τοῖσι τῶν τὸν πέλας.
κατ᾿ αὐτὸν καὐτὸν εἶτ᾿ ἀυτὸν κατ᾿ αὐτὸν εἰσιδών τις ἐμφερὴς ἐμοὶ
ὀργήν τὸν τροπὸν θ᾽ ὅμοιος εἶπε τοιοῦτον λόγον,
ὤνθρωπε, μὴ δρᾶ δρᾶι τοὺς τεθνηκότας κακώς·
εἰ γὰρ ποιήσεις, ἴσθι πημανούμενος.
1155
τοιαῦτ᾽ ἄνολβον ἄνοιτον ἄνδρ᾽ ἐνουθέτει παρών.
ὁρῶ δέ τοί νιν, κἄστιν, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ,
οὐδείς ποτ᾽ ἄλλος ἄλλοσ (?) ἢ σύ. μῶν ἠνιξάμην;
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1150 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1150 focus
I too have seen a man whose windy pride
1150
Poured forth loud insults o’er a neighbour’s fall,
Till one whose cause and temper showed like mine
Spake to him in my hearing this plain word:
‘Man, do the dead no wrong; but, if thou dost,
1155
Be sure thou shalt have sorrow.’ Thus he warned
The infatuate one: ay, one whom I behold,
For all may read my riddle—thou art he.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1150 focus
Ich aber sah jüngst einen Mann voll Albernheit,
1105
Der stolz in seines Nächsten Noth sich brüstete;
Und ihn gewahrt' ein Andrer, der mir ähnlich war
Und gleiches Sinnes, - dieser rief das Wort ihm zu:
Mensch, daß du keinen Frevel an den Todten übst!
Denn thust du dies, so wisse, daß Unheil dir droht.
1110
So trat er warnend an den armen Mann heran.
Und diesen seh' ich, und es ist, ich glaube so,
Kein Andrer als du selber. Sprach ich räthselhaft?
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1150 focus
Do thou remember too, I say he shall.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1150 focus
Hear thou my answer, He shall be entomb'd.

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-677-1 ἐν κακοῖς ὕβριζε 1

mvp-comment-678-1 κᾆτ’ 2

mvp-comment-679-1 ὀργήν 3

mvp-comment-680-1 ποήσεις 4

mvp-comment-680-2 πημανούμενος 5

mvp-comment-681-1 ἄνολβον 6

mvp-comment-681-2 παρών 7

mvp-comment-682-1 μῶν ᾐνιξάμην 8

mvp-comment-683-1 πάρα 9

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 10

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.

1150. mvp-comment-741-1 Teucer, in replying to Menelaus, retains the form of allegory; but, instead of seeking for an illustration, puts the case as it stands, thus more openly expressing his scorn.

1156. mvp-comment-742-1 ἄνολβον] The same indissoluble association between unhappiness and wickedness appears in the use of δύστηνος, infr. 1290, and in μελέοις ᾿Ατρείδαις, supr. 621. Cf. also O. T. 888, δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶς. For the addition of παρών, cp. supr. 1131.

1158. mvp-comment-743-1 μῶν ἠνιξάμην] ‘Is my riddle hard to read?' As was said in note on supr. 1150, Teucer does not care to disguise his contempt.

1160. mvp-comment-744-1 ᾧ.. παρῇ] The reading πάρα is unobjectionable, but is perhaps due to the supposition εἰ πύθοιτό τις, which refers to the particular case:—some early scholar having felt an incongruity in the fusion of general and particular, which is however quite in keeping with the language of the age of Pericles.