Sophocles Ajax 1211

Richard Jebb (Translator)

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

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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 (3)
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 1223-1420 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 1211 focus
καὶ πρὶν μὲν ἐννυχίου
δείματος ἦν μοὶ προβολὰ
καὶ βελέων θούριος Αἴας·
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1211 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 1223 focus
My steps were hastened, brethren, when I saw
Great Agamemnon hitherward afoot.
He means to talk perversely, I can tell.
1225
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1211 focus
Wohl wider nächtliches Graun, Wider den Sturm feindlicher Wehr war mir ein Schirm
1165
Ajas, der Held, einst;
Nun hat ihn ein Gott grausam entrafft!
Wo mir, o wo wird mir hinfort
Lächeln die Freude?
könnt' ich
1170
Hin, wo waldig des Berges Haupt,
Von Meerwogen umspült, sich hebt,
Unter Sunions hohen Fels,
Heilige Stadt Athene's, dir
Grüße zu senden!
1175
Teukros (zurückkommend). Agamemnon. Die Vorigen.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1223 focus
Away ! This babbler is not to be borne.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1211 focus
Yet, till now, when pale affright
Roll'd her hideous form through night,
Great in arms, his shield t' oppose,
Ajax as my rampire rose,
And my terror was no more.
Now the hero I deplore
To the gloomy god consign'd;
1215
Now what joy can touch my mind?
Oh that on the pine-clad brow
Dark'ning o'er the sea below,
Where the cliffs of Sunium rise,
Rocky bulwarks, to the skies,
I were placed; with sweet address
Sacred Athens would I bless,
And feel a social joy!

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-713-1 αἰὲν νυχίου 1 προβολὰ 2

mvp-comment-714-1 ἀνεῖται στυγερῷ δαίμονι 3

mvp-comment-715-1 ἐπέσται 4

mvp-comment-716-1 γενοίμαν 5

mvp-comment-716-2 ὑλᾶεν 6

mvp-comment-716-3 ἔπεστι πόντου | πρόβλημ’ 7 ἔπεστι 8

mvp-comment-717-1 ὑπὸ πλάκα Σουνίου 9

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

1211-1213. mvp-comment-775-1 ἐννυχίου | δείματος.. | καὶ βελέων] 'Against nightly alarm and weapons of war.' For this genitive of the object, cp. O. T. 1200-1, θανάτων δ᾽ ἐμᾷ | χώρᾳ πύργος ἀνέστα.

1214-1215. mvp-comment-776-1 νῦν δ᾽ οὗτος .. δαίμονι] 'But now he is no more our bulwark, struck down by a malignant fate.' As in Phil. 1153, ἀνέδην ὅδε χῶρος ἐρύκεται is said of the absence of defence, so ἀνεῖται is here said (continuing the metaphor in προβολά, supra) of the failure or removal of a defence; i.e. οὐκέτι προτείνεται. Cp. infr. 1270, Od. 11. 556, τοῖος γάρ σφιν πύργος ἀπώλεο.

1216. mvp-comment-777-1 ἐπέσται] Sc. τῷ βίῳ.

1217. mvp-comment-778-1 ὑλᾶεν] Od. 9. 191, ῥίῳ ὑλήεντι. ἔπεστι] 'Impends,' ' instat,' sc. τῷ πόντῳ, or τοῖς πλέουσιν. Cp. Od. 6. 210, ὅθ᾽ ἐπὶ σκέπας ἔστ᾽ ἀνέμοιο. πόντου πρόβλημα] ‘The rock jutting into the deep.' Cp. Phil. 1455, κτύπος ἄρσην πόντου προβολῆς.

1219-1220. mvp-comment-779-1 ἄκραν | ὑπὸ πλάκα Σουνίου] (1) 'Below the top of Sunium.' The ground behind Cape Colonnas rises considerably higher than the promontory itself. Or (2) 'At the point of the tableland of Sunium.'