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Ajax. Sophocles. ed. Francis Storr. London. 1913.

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Current edition Experimental

Αἴας (Greek) (Sophocles, Volume 2. Storr, Francis, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company, 1913.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (2)
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)) — 1223 focus
καὶ μὴν ἰδὼν ἔσπευσα τὸν στρατηλάτην
᾿Αγαμέμνονα ἀγαμέμν ἀγαμεμνον' ἀγαμέμνον ἡμῖν δεῦρο τόνδ᾽ ὁρμώμενον·
δῆλος δέ μοὐστὶ δέ μοιστί δε μοἰστὶ καὶ δῆλόσ ἐστιν ὥστι σημανῶν νέον σκαιὸν ἐκλύσων στόμα.
1225
εἴθ᾽ ὑμὶν ἀμφοῖν νοῦς γένοιτο σωφρονεῖν·
τούτου γὰρ οὐδὲν σφῶν ἔχω λῷον φράσαι om. add..
1265
δύστηνε, ποῖ βλέπων ποτ᾿ αὐτὰ αὐτὸσ καὶ θροεῖς;
1290
οὐκ οἶσθα σοῦ πατρὸς μὲν ὃς προὔφυ πατὴρ
ἀρχαῖον ὄντα Πέλοπα βάρβαρον Φρύγα;
Ἀτρέα δ᾽, ὃς αὖ σ᾽ ἔσπειρε, δυσσεβέστατον
προθέντ᾽ προσθέντ’ ἀδελφῷ δεῖπνον οἰκείων τέκνων;
αὐτὸς αὖθισ δὲ μητρὸς ἐξέφυς Κρήσσης, ἐφ' ἡ
1295
λαβὼν ἐπακτὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ὁ φιτύσας φυτεύσας πατὴρ
ἐφῆκεν ἐλλοῖς ἰχθύσιν διαφθοράν.
ἄναξ Ὀδυσσεῦ, καιρὸν ἴσθ᾽ ἐληλυθώς,
εἰ μὴ ξυνάψων, ἀλλὰ συλλύσων πάρει.
σὺ ταῦτ᾽, Ὀδυσσεῦ, τοῦδ᾽ ὑπερμαχεῖς ἐμοί;
καὶ νῦν γε Τεύκρῳ τἀπὸ τοῦδ᾽ ἀγγέλλομαι ἀγγέλομαι
ὅσον τότ᾽ ἐχθρὸς ἦν, τοσόνδ᾽ εἶναι φίλος φίλον φίλος.
καὶ τὸν θανόντα τόνδε συνθάπτειν θέλω,
Translations (5)
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
Fie! How doth gratitude when men are dead
Prove renegade and swiftly pass away!
This Agamemnon hath no slightest word
Of kind remembrance any more for thee,
Aias, who oftentimes for his behoof
Hast jeoparded thy life in labour of war.
1270
Now all is clean forgotten and out of mind.
Thou who hast multiplied words void of sense,
Hast thou no faintest memory of the time
When who but Aias came and rescued you
Already locked within the toils,—all lost,
1275
The rout began: when close abaft the ships
The torches flared, and o’er the bootless trench
Hector was bounding high to board our fleet?
Who stayed that onset? Was not Aias he?
Whom thou deny’st to have once set foot by thine.
1280
Find ye no merit there? And once again
When he met Hector singly, man to man,
Not by your bidding, but the lottery’s choice,
His lot, that skulked not low adown i’ the heap,
A moist earth-clod, but sure to spring in air,
1285
And first to clear the plumy helmet’s brim.
Yes, Aias was the man, and I too there
Kept rank, the ‘barbarous mother’s servile son.’
I pity thee the blindness of that word.
Who was thy father’s father? A barbarian,
1290
Pelops, the Phrygian, if you trace him far!
And what was Atreus, thine own father? One
Who served his brother with the abominable
Dire feast of his own flesh. And thou thyself
Cam’st from a Cretan mother, whom her sire
1295
Caught with a man who had no right in her
And gave dumb fishes the polluted prey.
Such was thy race. What is the race thou spurnest?
My father, Telamon, of all the host
Being foremost proved in valour, took as prize
1300
My mother for his mate: a princess she,
Born of Laomedon; Alcmena’s son
Gave her to grace him—a triumphant meed.
Thus royally descended and thus brave,
Shall I renounce the brother of my blood,
1305
Or suffer thee to thrust him in his woes
Far from all burial, shameless that thou art?
Be sure that, if ye cast him forth, ye’ll cast
Three bodies more beside him in one spot;
For nobler should I find it here to die
1310
In open quarrel for my kinsman’s weal,
Than for thy wife—or Menelaüs’, was ’t?
Consider then, not my case, but your own.
For if you harm me you will wish some day
To have been a coward rather than dare me.
1315
Hail, Lord Odysseus! thou art come in time
Not to begin, but help to end, a fray.
Wilt thou thus fight against me on his side?
And now let Teucer know that from this hour
I am more his friend than I was once his foe,
And fain would help him in this burial-rite
And service to his brother, nor would fail
In aught that mortals owe their noblest dead.
1380
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1223 focus
Wohl kam ich eilend, weil ich Agamemnon hier,
Den Heeresfürsten, gegen uns herschreiten sah;
Und sicher löst er seinen Mund in schnödem Wort.
lerntet ihr doch beide weisen Sinnes sein!
Nichts Andres kann ich rathen, das euch besser sei.
Mit welcher Stirne rufst du das, Unseliger?
Denn weißt du nicht, daß deines Vaters Vater auch,
Der alte Pelops, ein Barbar, ein Phryger war?
1245
Daß dessen Sohn, dein Vater Atreus, Bösewicht,
Als Mahl dem Bruder seine Kinder vorgesezt?
Du selber sprossest aus dem Schooß der Kreterin,
Die dort der eigne Vater, der bei'm Buhlen sie
Betraf, den stummen Fischen hin zum Kaube warf.
1250
Solch Einer, schmähst du solchen Stamm, dem ich entsproß?
Ich bin des edlen Vaters Sohn, des Telamon,
Dem, als der erste Siegeslohn in Argos' Heer,
Sich meine Mutter anvermählt, Laomedons, 2
Des Königs, ächte Tochter; ihm gewährte sie
1255
Alkmene's Sohn als auserles'nen Kriegesdank.
Solch edler Art von edlem Paare stamm' ich her,
Und sollte schänden lassen mein verwandtes Blut,
Ihn, den du jezt, in solche bittre Noth versenkt,
Grablos hinauswirfst, und es ohne Scham bekennst?
1260
Nein, sei versichert, werset ihr den Mann hinaus,
So werft ihr uns auch, drei zugleich, hinaus mit ihm!
Denn offenbar ruhmvoller ist es mir, für ihn
In heißem Kampf zu fallen, als für deine Frau
Zu sterben oder (mein' ich) für Menelaos' Weib.
1265
Bedenke denn dein Bestes, nicht das meinige:
Denn so du mich verlezest, wirst du lieber feig
Dereinst erscheinen wollen, als beherzt an mir.
Odysseus. Die Vorigen.
O Fürst Odysseus, recht zur Zeit erscheinst du hier,
Wenn du den Streit versöhnen, nicht entflammen willst.
1270
Und du, Odysseus, streitest so für den mit mir?
Und jezt erklär' ich, Teukros, dir: so sehr ich sonst
Sein Feind gewesen, bin ich nun des Mannes Freund.
1330
Mit euch bestatten will ich seine Leiche, will
Mit euch die Arbeit theilen und versäume Nichts,
Womit die Besten ehren muß der Sterbliche.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 1223 focus
Away ! This babbler is not to be borne.
And lo ! in happy hour this way advancing
The wife and son of our unhappy friend,
To pay due honours and adorn his tomb.
'^K^MKSv^A. KrRYSACES, TeUCER, OhORUS.
This way I bent my hasty steps to meet
The Grecian chief, who hither comes prepared
To vent his keen reproaches.
I am told
That thou, e'en thou, the sou of a vile slave, *
'Twill be thy portion soon, unless thou learnst
More wisdom ; henceforth, mindful what thou art.
Bring with thee one of nobler blood to plead
Thy cause ; for know, the language which thou tallest
1320
Is barbai'ous, and I understand thee not.
Thou mayst ; for well thou knowst I hold
Ulysses
Of all the Greeks my best and dearest friend.
I tell thee, Teucer,
As once I was his foe : e'en now I mean
To join with thee, a fellow-labourer
In all the pious offices of love,
Nor would omit, what every man should pay,
The honours due to sucli exalted virtue !
1380
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 1223 focus
I saw th' imperial Chief with haughty step
Advancing, therefore hasten'd my return.
Expect a torrent of opprobrious words.
1225
Oh that your minds to gentler thoughts were calm'd!
My soul can form no better wish for each.
1265
Thy father's father, Pelops of old times,
1290
Was a barbarie Phrygian: know'st thou this?
Know'st thou that Atreus was thy sire, of men
Most impious, to his brother at a feast
Who served up his own sons. From Crete her birth
Thy mother drew; and when thy father found:
His bed polluted with adulterous lust,
1295
He cast her to the monsters of the main......
From such art thou descended; and my birth
Darest thou revile, from Telamon derived,
My father, whose illustrious deeds in arms.
Shone with the brightest splendor, and obtain'd
1300
My mother to his bed, of royal blood,
The daughter of Laomedon, the prize.
Of highest honour by Alcides giv'n'?...
Thus noble, and from noble parents sprung,
Should I dishonour those whose blood I share,
Whom thou, thus miserably fall'n, wou'dst cast
1305
Unburied forth? Nor dost thou blush, this threat
Denouncing. But of this be thou assured,
Him if your violence cast forth, us three
Shall it cast forth together with him laid.
To me more glorious 'midst this honest toil
1310
I deem it in a brother's cause to die,
Than for thy wife, or for thy brother's. Go,
Of me regardless, yet regard thyself:
Me if thou wrong, thou shalt have cause to wish
That coward fear had check'd thy daring pride.
1315
In happy hour, Ulysses, art thou come,
If not to heighten, but allay this strife.
Dost thou, Ulysses, striving in his cause,
Oppose my will?
Now, Teucer, hear me speak my honest thoughts.
I was thy foe: henceforth I am thy friend;
And with thee wish to entomb the dead, t' share
Thy toils, and every solemn rite provide
From mortals due to grace the noblest dead.
THUC. Thy words, Ulysses, claim my praise, my thanks;
They show a noble nature, far beyond
My expectation. In the Grecian camp
None was, like thee, his foe; yet thou alone
Hast spirit to protect him, and oppose
With high disdain all insult to the dead;
Whilst with wild outrage frentic came the Chief,
He and his brother, with malignant will
To cast him out unhonour'd with a tomb.
For this may the almighty sire enthroned
On this Olympus, may Erinnys still
Mindful of wrongs, and Justice that effects,
Though late, her solemn purpose, on their heads
Inflict disgraceful vengeance, as they wish'd
To cast him out, unworthily disgraced,
Deprived of sepulture. Thy offer'd aid,
Son of Laertes, in these funeral rites
I fear, the dead revering, to accept,
Lest it offend his shade. In all besides
1380
Assist us. From the camp if thou wilt send
1380
Others to grace the dead, it will not grieve
1380
My mind. These obsequies let me prepare;
1380
And know thy goodness hath my warm applause.
1380
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1223-1420 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-719-1 καὶ μὴν 1

mvp-comment-719-2 ἡμῖν 2 δῆλος 3

mvp-comment-719-3 μοὐστὶ 4

mvp-comment-719-4 σκαιὸν … στόμα 5

mvp-comment-719-5 ἐκλύσων 6

mvp-comment-720-1 σὲ δὴ 7

mvp-comment-720-2 τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματ’ 8

mvp-comment-720-3 ἀνοιμωκτὶ 9 ι 10 ει 11

mvp-comment-720-4 χανεῖν ῥήματα 12

mvp-comment-721-1 σέ τοι 13

mvp-comment-721-2 τὸν ἐκ τῆς 14

mvp-comment-722-1 τραφεὶς 15

mvp-comment-722-2 ὑψήλ’ ἐφώνεις 16

mvp-comment-722-3 κἀπ’ ἄκρων ὡδοιπόρεις 17

mvp-comment-723-1 ὅτε 18

mvp-comment-723-2 οὐδὲν ὢν 19 τοῦ μηδὲν … ὕπερ 20

mvp-comment-724-1 κοὔτε στρατηγοὺς 21

mvp-comment-724-2 οὔτε ναυάρχους 22

mvp-comment-724-3 Ἀχαιῶν οὔτε σοῦ 23

mvp-comment-724-4 διωμόσω 24

mvp-comment-725-1 αὐτὸς ἄρχων … ἔπλει 25

mvp-comment-726-1 δούλων 26

mvp-comment-727-1 ποίου κέκραγας ἀνδρὸς 27

mvp-comment-728-1 ποῖ βάντος 28

mvp-comment-729-1 ἄνδρες 29

mvp-comment-730-1 πικροὺς 30

mvp-comment-730-2 ἔοιγμεν 31

mvp-comment-730-3 ὅπλων ἀγῶνας 32

mvp-comment-730-4 τότε 33

mvp-comment-731-1 πανταχοῦ 34

mvp-comment-731-2 ἐκ Τεύκρου 35

mvp-comment-732-1 κοὐκ ἀρκέσει 36 εἰ 37

mvp-comment-733-1 εἴκειν ἃ … ἤρεσκεν 38

mvp-comment-734-1 κακοῖς βαλεῖτε 39

mvp-comment-734-2 σὺν δόλῳ 40

mvp-comment-734-3 κεντήσεθ’ 41

mvp-comment-734-4 οἱ λελειμμένοι 42

mvp-comment-735-1 ἐκ τῶνδε … τῶν τρόπων 43

mvp-comment-735-2 κατάστασις 44

mvp-comment-736-1 τοὺς … νικῶντας 45

mvp-comment-736-2 ἐξωθήσομεν 46

mvp-comment-736-3 τοὺς ὄπισθεν 47

mvp-comment-737-1 εἰρκτέον τάδ’ 48 πλατεῖς 49 εὐρύνωτοι 50

mvp-comment-738-1 οἱ φρονοῦντες εὖ 51

mvp-comment-739-1 ὑπὸ … πορεύεται 52

mvp-comment-739-2 σμικρᾶς 53

mvp-comment-739-3 ὀρθὸς 54

mvp-comment-740-1 φάρμακον 55

mvp-comment-740-2 νοῦν κατακτήσει 56 τινά 57

mvp-comment-741-1 ἀνδρὸς οὐκέτ’ ὄντος 58 ὑβρίζεις 59

mvp-comment-741-2 σκιᾶς 60

mvp-comment-742-1 οὐ σωφρονήσεις 61

mvp-comment-742-2 μαθὼν ὃς εἶ φύσιν 62

mvp-comment-743-1 ἄλλον τιν’ … ἐλεύθερον 63

mvp-comment-744-1 ἀντὶ σοῦ λέξει τὰ σά 64

mvp-comment-745-1 σοῦ … λέγοντος 65 μάθοιμ’ 66 οὐκέτ’ 67

mvp-comment-746-1 βάρβαρον 68

mvp-comment-746-2 ἐπαΐω 69

mvp-comment-747-1 φράσαι 70

mvp-comment-748-1 ὡς ταχεῖά τις 71

mvp-comment-748-2 βροτοῖς 72

mvp-comment-748-3 διαρρεῖ 73

mvp-comment-748-4 προδοῦσ’ ἁλίσκεται 74

mvp-comment-749-1 οὐδ’ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν λόγων 75

mvp-comment-750-1 οὗ 76 προὔκαμες 77 δορί 78 προτείνων 79

mvp-comment-751-1 ἐρριμμένα 80

mvp-comment-752-1 κἀνόητ’ 81

mvp-comment-753-1 οὐ μνημονεύεις … οὐδέν 82 ἡνίκα 83

mvp-comment-754-1 ἑρκέων … ἐγκεκλῃμένους 84

mvp-comment-754-2 ἑρκέων 85

mvp-comment-755-1 τὸ μηδὲν ὄντας 86

mvp-comment-755-2 ἐν τροπῇ δορός 87

mvp-comment-756-1 ἀμφὶ μὲν νεῶν … ἑδωλίοις 88

mvp-comment-756-2 (1) There is strong evidence that the term

ἑδώλια
was used in the 5th cent. B.C. to denote a raised deck, a quarter-deck, at the stern of the ship. This is clear in Her. 1. 24 : Arion asks leave,
στάντα ἐν τοῖσι ἑδωλίοισι ἀεῖσαι
: the officers of the ship consent, and are then said
ἀναχωρῆσαι ἐκ τῆς πρύμνης ἐς μέσην νέα
,— leaving Arion alone on the
ἑδώλια
. In Helen. 1571,
Ἑλένη καθέζετ’ ἐν μέσοις ἑδωλίοις
: which is clearly a place distinct from that where the rowers sat; of them it is said,
τοίχους δεξιοὺς λαιούς τ’ ἴσοι | ἀνὴρ παρ’ ἄνδρ’ ἕζοντο
. (For further evidence on this point, see Appendix.)

mvp-comment-756-3 (2) ἄκροισιν 89

mvp-comment-756-4 (3) ναυτικοῖς 90

mvp-comment-756-5 Other views of the passage, and some emendations which have been proposed, will be found in the Appendix.

mvp-comment-757-1 εἰς δὲ ναυτικὰ σκάφη … τάφρων ὕπερ 91

mvp-comment-757-2 Sophocles may have had some other source, epic or lyric. But it seems equally possible that he wrote from a general recollection of the Iliad, without caring whether he reproduced its details. Indeed, two verses of the Iliad might alone have sufficed to suggest the picture which he has drawn,—that which says of Ajax,

Τρῶας ἄμυνε νεῶν, ὅστις φέροι ἀκάματον πῦρ
(15. 731),—and the verse which describes Hector leading the Trojans from the Greek wall towards the ships,—
ᾗ ῥ) ὅ γ’ ὁ λυσσώδης φλογὶ εἴκελος ἡγεμονεύει
(13. 53).

mvp-comment-758-1 οὗ σὺ μή, βῆναι ποδί 92 οὐδὲ συμβῆναι ποδί 93 συμβῆναι ποδί 94

mvp-comment-759-1 ὑμὶν … ἔνδικα 95

mvp-comment-760-1 αὐτὸς 96

mvp-comment-760-2 λαχών τε κἀκέλευστος 97

mvp-comment-760-3 This combat between Hector and Ajax is told in Iliad 7. 38—312. Hector having challenged a Greek champion, nine Greek chiefs offered themselves; lots were cast, and the honour fell to Ajax. Hector and Ajax fought till nightfall, when they were parted by heralds, and exchanged gifts (1029 n.).

mvp-comment-761-1 οὐ δραπέτην 98

mvp-comment-761-2

ἐς μέσον καθείς. μέσον
has been suspected; Nauck writes
κρωσσὸν
(‘urn’). But the literal sense is simply, ‘having cast down into the midst’—the competitors being imagined as standing round the
κυνῆ
. Cp. the phrases
εἰς μέσον τιθέναι, εἰς τὸ μέσον φέρειν
, etc.

mvp-comment-761-3 κυνῆς 99

mvp-comment-762-1 σὺν δ’ ἐγὼ παρών 100 σὺν 101

mvp-comment-762-2 ὁ δοῦλος 102

mvp-comment-763-1 δύστηνε 103

mvp-comment-763-2 καὶ θροεῖς 104

mvp-comment-764-1 Construe:

οὐκ οἶσθα ἀρχαῖον Πέλοπα, ὃς σοῦ πατρὸς πατὴρ προὔφυ, ὄντα βάρβαρον, Φρύγα;
The phrase
ἀρχαῖον Πέλοπα
, ‘Pelops of old,’ indicates him as the founder of Agamemnon's royal house. Others take
ἀρχαῖον
adverbially with
ὄντα βάρβαρον
, ‘a barbarian by origin.’ But such a use of
ἀρχαῖος
is strange, and seems to be without parallel.

mvp-comment-764-2 Φρύγα 105

mvp-comment-765-1 δυσσεβέστατον 106

mvp-comment-765-2 ἀδελφῷ 107

mvp-comment-766-1 Κρήσσης 108

mvp-comment-767-1 ἐπακτὸν 109

mvp-comment-767-2 ὁ φιτύσας πατήρ 110 πατὴρ 111 σ’ Ἀτρεὺς 112 σ’ ἀνὴρ 113

mvp-comment-768-1 ἐφῆκεν … διαφθοράν 114

mvp-comment-768-2 ἐλλοῖς 115

mvp-comment-769-1 ἐκ πατρὸς μὲν 116

mvp-comment-770-1 ὅστις 117

mvp-comment-770-2 τὰ πρῶτ’ 118

mvp-comment-771-1 ἴσχει 119

mvp-comment-771-2 φύσει μὲν 120

mvp-comment-772-1 βασίλεια 121

mvp-comment-772-2 Λαομέδοντος 122

mvp-comment-772-3 ἔκκριτον 123

mvp-comment-773-1 ἄριστος 124 ἀριστεὺς 125

mvp-comment-773-2 ἀριστέοιν 126

mvp-comment-773-3 τοὺς πρὸς αἵματος 127

mvp-comment-774-1 τοιοῖσδ’ ἐν πόνοισι κειμένους 128

mvp-comment-774-2 ὠθεῖς 129

mvp-comment-774-3 οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνει λέγων 130

mvp-comment-775-1 βαλεῖτέ που 131

mvp-comment-775-2 χἡμᾶς τρεῖς 132

mvp-comment-775-3 συγκειμένους 133

mvp-comment-776-1 καλόν μοι 134 προδήλως 135

mvp-comment-776-2 τῆς σῆς … ἢ τοῦ σοῦ γ’ ὁμαίμονος λέγω 136

mvp-comment-776-3 For ἢ … λέγω 137

mvp-comment-777-1 τοὐμόν 138

mvp-comment-778-1 ἐν ἐμοί 139

mvp-comment-779-1 καιρὸν 140 ξυνάψων 141 συλλύσων 142

mvp-comment-779-2 1318 f. The conciliatory temper of Odysseus is marked at once by the courteous form of address,

ἄνδρες
,—by the honourable patronymic
Ἀτρειδῶν
,—and by the designation of Ajax as
ἄλκιμος
.

mvp-comment-779-3 βοὴν Ἀτρειδῶν 143

mvp-comment-780-1 οὐ γὰρ 144

mvp-comment-780-2 κλύοντές ἐσμεν 145

mvp-comment-780-3 ἀρτίως 146

mvp-comment-781-1 φλαῦρα 147

mvp-comment-781-2 συμβαλεῖν ἔπη κακά 148

mvp-comment-781-3 κακά 149

mvp-comment-782-1 ἤκουσεν αἰσχρά 150

mvp-comment-783-1 ὥστε καὶ βλάβην ἔχειν 151

mvp-comment-784-1 οὐ φήσ’ ἐάσειν 152 ἀλλὰ … θάψειν 153

mvp-comment-784-2 ταφῆς ἄμοιρον 154

mvp-comment-785-1 ξυνηρετεῖν 155 ξυνηρετμεῖν 156 ξυνηρετεῖν 157

mvp-comment-785-2 For the metaphor, cp. Ant. 541

ξύμπλουν
(n.). In Aesch. Ag. 842 the king says of Odysseus,
ζευχθεὶς ἕτοιμος ἦν ἐμοὶ σειραφόρος
.

mvp-comment-786-1 ἦ γὰρ εἴην οὐκ ἂν εὖ φρονῶν 158 οὐκ 159

mvp-comment-787-1 φίλον … μέγιστον 160

mvp-comment-788-1 τλῇς 161

mvp-comment-788-2 βαλεῖν 162

mvp-comment-789-1 ἡ βία 163 νικησάτω 164

mvp-comment-789-2 πατεῖν 165

mvp-comment-790-1 ἔχθιστος 166

mvp-comment-790-2 )κράτησα 167

mvp-comment-791-1 ἔμπας 168

mvp-comment-791-2 ἀντατιμάσαιμ’ 169 οὔ τἂν ἀτιμάσαιμ’ 170 οὔκουν 171 οὐκ οὖν 172

mvp-comment-792-1 ἕν’ ἄνδρ’ … ἄριστον 173

mvp-comment-793-1 πλὴν Ἀχιλλέως 174

mvp-comment-794-1 τοὺς θεῶν νόμους 175

mvp-comment-795-1 τὸν ἐσθλὸν ἄνδρα 176

mvp-comment-795-2 εἰ θάνοι 177

mvp-comment-796-1 ταῦτ’ 178 ὑπερμαχεῖς 179

mvp-comment-797-1 ἔγωγ)· 180

mvp-comment-797-2 ἡνίκ’ ἦν μισεῖν καλόν 181

mvp-comment-798-1 οὐ γὰρ 182

mvp-comment-798-2 προσεμβῆναι 183

mvp-comment-799-1 Ἀτρείδη 184

mvp-comment-799-2 κέρδεσιν τοῖς μὴ καλοῖς 185

mvp-comment-800-1 τόν τοι τύραννον εὐσεβεῖν οὐ ῥᾴδιον 186

mvp-comment-801-1 ἀλλ’ εὖ λέγουσι 187

mvp-comment-801-2 τιμὰς νέμειν 188

mvp-comment-802-1 κλύειν τὸν ἐσθλὸν ἄνδρα 189 τῶν ἐν τέλει 190

mvp-comment-803-1 παῦσαι 191

mvp-comment-804-1 ποτέ 192 ἐχθρὸς 193 γενναῖος 194

mvp-comment-805-1 ἐχθρὸν ὧδ’ αἰδεῖ νέκυν 195

mvp-comment-806-1 νικᾷ γὰρ 196 τῆς ἔχθρας 197 νικᾷ 198

mvp-comment-806-2 It is very improbable that the text is corrupt. The context in verses 1355 f. at once proves that the words

ἁρετή
and
ἔχθρας
are genuine; and the article before
ἀρετή
confirms
τῆς
. As
νικᾷ
also is presumably sound, the fault, if any, would have to be sought in
πολύ
, for which neither
πλέον
nor
πάρος
is a tolerable substitute; or else in
με
. Now in a reply to the question,
ἐχθρὸν ὧδ’ αἰδεῖ νέκυν;
we should expect some reference by Odysseus to his own feeling; and v. 1358 (
τοιοίδε μέντοι φῶτες κ.τ.λ.
) further indicates that in the preceding verse he actually did refer to himself. Hence the only correction of
με
which would solve the difficulty of the genitive, viz.
τὰ
, is unsatisfactory.

mvp-comment-807-1 τοιοίδε 199 φῶτες … βροτῶν 200 βροτῶν 201 βροτοῖς 202

mvp-comment-807-2 ἔμπληκτοι 203

mvp-comment-808-1 καὖθις 204

mvp-comment-808-2 πικροί 205

mvp-comment-808-3 Odysseus is here replying to the taunt that he is

ἔμπληκτος
, inconstant. ‘It is common enough for friendship to turn into bitterness. When, therefore, I forget the later enmity of Ajax, and remember only his good service, I am merely condoning a very ordinary change.’ There is also a gentle hint that Agamemnon, who had professed so much
φιλία
(1331), is becoming a little
πικρός
.

mvp-comment-809-1 τοιούσδ’ 206

mvp-comment-810-1 ἐπαινεῖν 207

mvp-comment-810-2 σκληρὰν … ψυχὴν 208

mvp-comment-811-1 δειλοὺς … φανεῖς 209

mvp-comment-811-2 τῇδε θἡμέρᾳ 210

mvp-comment-812-1 μὲν οὖν 211

mvp-comment-812-2 Ἑλλησι 212

mvp-comment-813-1 ἔγωγε 213

mvp-comment-813-2 ἐνθάδ’ 214 ἵξομαι 215 ἐνθάδε 216

mvp-comment-814-1 ἦ πάνθ’ ὅμοια 217 αὑτῷ 218 πονεῖ 219

mvp-comment-815-1 τῷ γάρ με μᾶλλον 220

mvp-comment-816-1 σὸν 221 σόν γ’ 222

mvp-comment-817-1 ὡς ἂν ποήσῃς 223

mvp-comment-817-2 πανταχῇ 224

mvp-comment-817-3 χρηστός γ’ 225

mvp-comment-818-1 ἀλλ’ εὖ γε μέντοι 226

mvp-comment-819-1 κἀκεῖ κἀνθάδ’ ὢν 227

mvp-comment-820-1 χρῇς 228

mvp-comment-821-1 τἀπὸ τοῦδ’ 229 ἀγγέλλομαι 230 εἶναι φίλος 231

mvp-comment-821-2 ἦ 232

mvp-comment-822-1 ξυμπονεῖν 233

mvp-comment-822-2 μηδὲν ἐλλείπειν ὅσων 234 ὅσον 235

mvp-comment-823-1 ἄριστ’ 236

mvp-comment-823-2 λόγοισι 237

mvp-comment-824-1 ἔψευσας ἐλπίδος 238

mvp-comment-825-1 παρέστης χερσίν 239

mvp-comment-825-2 ἔτλης 240

mvp-comment-825-3 παρὼν 241

mvp-comment-825-4 θανόντι … ἐφυβρίσαι 242

mvp-comment-825-5 ζῶν 243

mvp-comment-826-1 ὡς … ἠθελησάτην 244

mvp-comment-826-2 οὑπιβρόντητος 245

mvp-comment-826-3 μολὼν 246

mvp-comment-826-4 αὐτός τε χὡ ξύναιμος 247

mvp-comment-827-1 Ὀλύμπου τοῦδ’ 248

mvp-comment-827-2 πρεσβεύων 249

mvp-comment-828-1 μνήμων 250

mvp-comment-828-2 Δίκη 251

mvp-comment-828-3 τελεσφόρος 252

mvp-comment-829-1 κακοὺς κακῶς 253 τὸν ἄνδρα 254

mvp-comment-829-2 λώβαις 255

mvp-comment-830-1 Λαέρτου 256

mvp-comment-831-1 τάφου … ἐπιψαύειν 257

mvp-comment-831-2 On the other hand, Odysseus is at liberty to assist in protecting the funeral from interruption by the Greek army. He may be a spectator of the rites, though not a participator; and he may bring with him ( κομίζειν 258 τὰ δ’ ἄλλα καὶ ξύμπρασσε 259

mvp-comment-831-3 μὴ τῷ θανόντι 260

mvp-comment-832-1 τἄλλα πάντα 261

mvp-comment-832-2 καθ’ ἡμᾶς 262

mvp-comment-833-1 ἀλλ’ ἤθελον μέν 263

mvp-comment-834-1 ἐπαινέσας 264

mvp-comment-834-2 τὸ σόν 265

mvp-comment-835-1 ἅλις· ἤδη γὰρ 266

mvp-comment-835-2 πολὺς ἐκτέταται χρόνος 267

mvp-comment-836-1 ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν 268

mvp-comment-836-2 κάπετον 269

mvp-comment-836-3 ταχύνετε 270

mvp-comment-837-1 τοὶ δ’ 271 τὸν δ’ 272 οἱ μέν 273

mvp-comment-837-2 ὑψίβατον τρίποδ’ 274

mvp-comment-837-3 ἀμφίπυρον … θέσθε 275

mvp-comment-837-4 λουτρῶν … ἐπίκαιρον 276

mvp-comment-837-5 ὁσίων 277

mvp-comment-838-1 ἴλη 278 τὸν ὑπασπίδιον κόσμον 279

mvp-comment-839-1 παῖ, σὺ δὲ πατρός γ’ 280 γε 281 πατρός 282 πλευρὰς 283

mvp-comment-840-1 ἔτι γὰρ θερμαὶ 284

mvp-comment-840-2 σύριγγες 285

mvp-comment-840-3 μέλαν μένος 286

mvp-comment-841-1 φησὶ 287

mvp-comment-841-2 σούσθω 288

mvp-comment-841-3 πάντ’ ἀγαθῷ 289

mvp-comment-842-1 κοὐδενί πω λῴονι θνητῶν 290 πω 291

mvp-comment-843-1 [ Αἴαντος, ὅτ’ ἦν, τότε φωνῶ 292

mvp-comment-844-1 ἰδοῦσιν 293

mvp-comment-844-2 μάντις 294

mvp-comment-844-3 ὅ τι πράξει 295

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

1223. mvp-comment-781-1 The stage has been vacant during the stasimon. Teucer is now seen returning in haste. Agamemnon enters after him.

1225. mvp-comment-782-1 'And I see plainly that he will let loose his tongue to evil purpose.' For the combination of verb and adjective with στόμα, cp. especially Aesch. Ag. 1247, εὔφημον . . κοίμησον στόμα. Others take σκαιόν here to mean either 'ill-omened' or 'stupid.'

1226-1227. mvp-comment-783-1 σὲ δὴ.. ἀγγέλλουσι .. | τλῆναι] ἰ.ε. σὺ δὴ ἔτλης, ὡς ἀγγέλλουσι. τὰ δεινὰ ῥήματα] 'Those blustering words' that have been reported to me. Cp. supr. 312 and note.

1227. mvp-comment-784-1 ἀνοιμωκτί implies a half-expressed contempt of Menelaus for having let Teucer off so easily. χανεῖν is contemptuously substituted for εἰπεῖν, i. e. εἰπόντα χανεῖν, 'To utter open-mouthed.' So in supr. 1096, ἁμαρτάνουσιν ἔπη (sc. λέγοντες). The word has an association of stupid insolence, 'Have dared to open your foolish mouth so wide.'

1230. mvp-comment-785-1 κἀπ᾿ ἄκρων ὡδοιπόρεις] « 'And have strutted proudly,' lit. on tiptoe, ἐπ᾿ ἄκρων, sc. ποδῶν or δακτύλων. Hesych. ἀκρίζων. ἄκροις ποσὶν ἐπιπορευόμενος. Εὐρ. Οἰνεί. Cp. Eur. Ion 1166, 7, ἐν δ᾽ ἄκροισι βὰς ποσὶν | κῆρυξ ἀνεῖπεν.

1231. mvp-comment-786-1 ἀντέστης] Sc. ἡμῖν.

1232-1233. mvp-comment-787-1 Cp. supr. 1097-1102. The word ναυάρχους recalls δεῦρ' ἔπλευσας in 1105. Agamemnon of course greatly exaggerates what Teucer had said. Cp. Il. 1. 288, πάντων μὲν κρατέειν ἐθέλει, πάντεσσι δ᾽ ἀνάσσειν, κ.τ.λ.

1235. mvp-comment-788-1 οὐ μεγάλα ἐστὶ ταῦτα κακὰ ἀκούειν (epexegetic infin.) πρὸς δούλων; Cp. O. C. 883, ἆρ᾽ οὐχ ὕβρις τάδε;

1236. mvp-comment-789-1 ποίου.. ἀνδρός] Sc. ὑπέρ. The ellipse is possibly softened by the preposition occurring in comp. in ὑπέρφρονα, although in a different sense. Cp. O. C. 539-41 and note.

1237. mvp-comment-790-1 ποῦ βάντος] i. e. ποῖ. But in such proverbial phrases there is a constant tendency to repeat the same word. Ср. O. T. 420, 1, and note; Phil. 451. Agamemnon in the Iliad acknowledged the superior prowess of Achilles. He is less generous here. This line prepares the way for Teucer's reproaches, infr. 1272-8.

1238. mvp-comment-791-1 ἄνδρες] 'Men,' i.e. 'men deserving the name.' Cp. supr. 77, πρόσθεν οὐκ ἀνὴρ ὅδ᾽ ἦν; and note.

1239. mvp-comment-792-1 πικρούς] 'To our cost.' This is said ironically. 'Teucer's denunciation of us will indeed be a calamitous result of the trial we proclaimed.' Agamemnon carefully limits his responsibility, as Menelaus did above, supr. 1136, ἐν τοῖς δικασταῖς, κοὐκ ἐμοί, τόδ᾽ ἐσφάλη, —to the ordainment of the contest, disclaiming all share in the verdict.

1241. mvp-comment-793-1 πανταχοῦ] ‘In all that we do.'

1243. mvp-comment-794-1 εἴκειν] Sc. τούτοις, or τοῖς δεδογμένοις, or whatever is the antecedent to ἃ.

1244-1245. mvp-comment-795-1 'But you (1) that are left' ('or (2) who are distanced') 'will either, I suppose, assail us with guileful woundings' (as Ajax did) 'or pelt us with abuse' (as you have now been doing). που is to be taken with the whole sentence, but has special reference to the suspicion expressed in σὺν δόλῳ κεντήσεθ᾽. οἱ λελειμμένοι (1) marks the correspondence between the supposed action of Ajax' surviving relatives and his own. The implied menace points through Teucer at Eurysaces. Cp. Shak. Macbeth, 3. 4. 'There the grown serpent lies; the worm, that's fled, | Hath nature that in time will venom breed, | No teeth for the present.' Or (2) οἱ λελειμμένοι resumes ἡσσημένοις, “You that are beaten in the race,' adding point to the suggestion of wounding from behind. See also l. 1249.

1250. mvp-comment-796-1 τάδ'] ‘This,' viz. Ajax' insolent claim to priority in spite of the judgment. Cp. O. C. 883, ἆρ᾽ οὐχ ὕβρις τάδ᾽;

1250-1251. mvp-comment-797-1 οὐ γὰρ .. φῶτες] 'Not the wide-shouldered or broad-backed men.' πλατύς is more expressive of mere size than μέγας. For the omission of the article with the second word, see Essay on L. § 21. p. 33 b.

1251. mvp-comment-798-1 ἀσφαλέστατοι] Either (1) 'Most to be relied upon,' in action and counsel, or (2) 'Most secure from falling.' The latter, (2) makes a more exact antithesis with κρατοῦσι.

1252. mvp-comment-799-1 κρατοῦσι πανταχοῦ] ‘Have the best of it on all occasions;' i. e. μᾶλλον ὀρθοῦνται. Cp. Plat. Phaedr. 272 Β, ὁ μὴ πειθόμενος κρατεῖ.

1253. mvp-comment-800-1 Cp. Pind. Pyth. 4. 417, βοέους δήσαις ἀνάγκα | ἔντεσιν αὐχένας ἐμβάλλων τ᾽ ἐριπλεύρῳ φυᾷ | κέντρον.

1254. mvp-comment-801-1 ὀρθὸς .. πορεύεται] 'Goes straight forward.' ὀρθός is adverbial, = τὴν εὐθεῖαν. For the γνώμη, cp. Ant. 477, σμικρῷ χαλινῷ, κ.τ.λ.

1255. mvp-comment-802-1 τοῦτ᾽.. τὸ φάρμακον] ‘This remedy,' the lash. Cp. Pind. Ol. 13. 121, ἕλὲ Βελλεροφόντας, | φάρμακον πραὺ τείνων ἀμφὶ γένυι, | ἵππον πτερόεντ'.

1257. mvp-comment-803-1 ἀνδρός] Sc. ὑπέρ. The unusual construction is softened here by the resumption from supr. 1236, and by the participle which suggests the genitive absolute. σκιᾶς] Sc. ὄντος, as if οὐδενὸς ὄντος had preceded.

1259. mvp-comment-804-1 ὃς εἶ] 'What you are.' Cp. Eur. Alc. 640, ἔδειξας . . ὃς εἶ. φύσιν is here at once 'by birth' and 'in nature.'

1262. mvp-comment-805-1 οὐκέτ'] «No longer,' i. e. 'not then (when you are speaking).' Essay on L. § 24. p. 41, 2.

1263. mvp-comment-806-1 Hesione was of Trojan, i. e. Phrygian, birth.

1266. mvp-comment-807-1 ὡς ταχεῖά τις] 'How swiftly, somehow!' For τις added to the supplementary predicate, cp. O. T. 618, ὅταν ταχύς τις οὐπιβουλεύων λάθρα | χωρῇ, and see Essay on L. § 22. p. 36, sub fin. Cp. also for the meaning of ταχεῖα, Pind. Pyth. 1. 161, ταχείας ἐλπίδας.

1267. mvp-comment-808-1 διαρρεῖ] ‘Melts away.' Cp. Trach. 698, ῥεῖ πᾶν ἄδηλον. Cp. Shak. Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1, 'My love to Hermia, | Melted as doth the snow, seems to me now | As the remembrance of an idle gaud.' καὶ προδοῦσ᾽ ἁλίσκεται] 'And is found to turn traitor.' An idiomatic phrase, for which, cp. Ant. 46, οὐ γὰρ δὴ προδοῦσ᾽ ἁλώσομαι.

1268. mvp-comment-809-1 οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ σμικρῶν λόγων] ‘Not even in the least degree.' Lit. either (1) 'On a slight account,' or (2) 'With a slight word.' For (1), cp. Plat. Rep. 7. 524 Ε, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ δακτύλου ἐλέγομεν. And for (2), cp. O. C. 746, κἀπὶ προσπόλου μιᾶς | βιοστερῆ χωροῦντα.

1270. mvp-comment-810-1 τὴν σὴν προτείνων . . ψυχὴν δορί] 'Exposing thy life in war.' Perhaps αὐτοῦ should be resumed from οὗ. Cp. Il. 9. 322, αἰὲν ἐμὴν ψυχὴν παραβαλλόμενος πολεμίζειν.

1271. mvp-comment-811-1 οἴχεται . . ἐρριμμένα] 'Are cast away,' a periphrasis like οἴχεται θανών (Phil. 414). Compare especially Andoc. 19. 7, οὐκ ἔστιν . . ἔτι λοιπὸς τοῦ γένους τοῦ ἡμετέρου οὐδείς, ἀλλ᾽ οἴχεται πᾶν πρόρριζον.

1272. mvp-comment-812-1 κἀνόνητ᾽, although a possible reading, may be due to κἀνόητα above. 'Senseless' is more pointed here than 'profitless.'

1274. mvp-comment-813-1 ἑρκέων] Sc. ἔσω, implied in ἐγκεκλημένους. When the Greeks were driven within their lines, their own ramparts were like a trap in which they were caught.

1275. mvp-comment-814-1 ἐν τροπῇ δορός] ‘When the battle was already turned against you:' —when the rout had begun.

1276-1278. mvp-comment-815-1 ἀμφὶ.. φλέγοντος] ‘When around the ships the fire already blazed so as to scorch the quarter-decks.' The ships being fired from the stern, whatever was most combustible abaft each vessel would first catch fire. ἑδωλίοις] This is commonly explained to mean 'the rowers' benches,' in which case ἄκροισιν is difficult to explain. But several passages indicate that ἑδώλια was the name given to those places in the vessel, chiefly at the stern, where persons not engaged in working her might sit. See the gloss on this line in Pal. R. 34, σανιδώμασιν, —also the Scholiast on Lycophr. 296, quoted by Dindorf in Steph. Thes. s. v. ἐξ ἑδωλίων πηδῶντες] τῶν σανιδωμάτων καὶ καταστρωμάτων τῆς νεώς: Etym. Magn. p. 455, 4 (ibid.), τόπον τῆς νεὼς βάσιν ἔχοντα .. ὁ καὶ ἑδώλιόν φασιν: and cp. Eur. Hel. 1571, Ἑλένη καθέζετ᾽ ἐν μέσοις ἐδωλίοις, ib. 1602, 3, παρακέλευσμα δ᾽ ἦν | πρύμνηθεν Ἑλένης (had she left the midmost benches, no doubt finding them uncomfortable, for the stern?): also Hdt. 1. 211, στάντα ἐν τοῖσι ἑδωλίοισι (evidently a platform in a particular part of the ship). This agrees with other meanings of the word. ἄκροισι means the part of the ἑδώλια towards the extreme stern. Cp. Od. 9. 540, οἰήϊον ἄκρον ἱκέσθαι. The whole description is probably taken from an Αἴαντος ἀριστεία, differing in some particulars from the Iliad, as, for instance, in ignoring the part taken by Patroclus in the defence of the ships. Hence no attempt need be made to reconcile the picture of Hector rushing with high bounds to cross the trench and board the fleet, with the narrative in Il. 14. 15.

1281. mvp-comment-816-1 ὂν.. ποδί] 'Who, as thou sayest, on no occasion set his foot by thine.' What Agamemnon said, supr. 1237, was different from this; but Teucer speaks with the exaggeration of anger. Cp. Ant. 208, 485, and note. For the expression, cp. Shak. Julius Caesar, 1. 3, '... And I will set this foot of mine as far | As who goes farthest.'

1282. mvp-comment-817-1 'I wonder if in this you find a righteous act of Ajax'?' ὑμίν, not = εἰς ὑμᾶς, but a dative of reference in construction with the whole sentence.

1283. mvp-comment-818-1 χὤτ᾽ αὖθις] ὅτε resumes ἡνίκα, supr. 1273, without any precise antecedent, though ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἐνδίκως ἔδρασεν; may be supplied from the preceding line. αὐτός]· 'By himself,' and not now in conjunction with the Atreidae.

1284. mvp-comment-819-1 κἀκέλευστος. See Il. 7. 164.

1284-1287. mvp-comment-820-1 The spirit of these lines agrees with Il. 7. 186-9, ἀλλ᾿ ὅτε δὴ τὸν ἴκανε, φέρων ἀν᾿ ὅμιλον ἁπάντη, | ὅς μιν ἐπιγράψας κυνέῃ βάλε, φαίδιμος Αἴας, | ἤτοι ὑπέσχεθε χεῖρ᾽ ὁ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔμβαλεν, ἄγχι παραστάς | γνῶ δὲ κλήρου σῆμα ἰδών, γήθησε δὲ θυμῷ.

1285. mvp-comment-821-1 'Not making his lot to sink into the hollow of the helmet, and to skulk there,' i. e. refuse to show itself when the helmet was shaken (as having crumbled away). δραπέτην contains a metaphor from a runaway slave eluding search, and also an allusion to the derivation from πίπτω. Sophocles, or the Cyclic poet before him, here assigns to Odysseus, or some other rival of Ajax, the action elsewhere attributed to Cresphontes at the division of the Peloponnese amongst the Heracleids.

1287. mvp-comment-822-1 κυνῆς] i. e. ἐκ κυνῆς. 'From the helmet.' Cp. especially O. T. 808, ὄχου, and note. ἄλμα κουφιεῖν] 'To spring lightly,' is an example of what in the Essay on L. § 17. p. 25 c, has been called the use of the cognate verb. Cp. Eur. El. 861, πήδημα κουφίζουσα: and, for the sense, Il. 7. 182, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔθορε κλῆρος κυνέης.

1288. mvp-comment-823-1 σὺν δ' ἐγὼ παρών] · 'And I too not far off.' Essay on L. § 18. § 40. p. 75. παρών implies that Teucer was faithful to his post. Cp. Phil. 379, οὐκ ἦσθ᾽ ἵν᾽ ἡμεῖς, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπῆσθ᾽, ἵν᾽ οὔ σ᾽ ἔδει. For Teucer's services, cp. Il. 15. 437, alib.

1290. mvp-comment-824-1 'Poor man! and what can you be thinking of when you say it?' i. e. 'How can you be so blind?' αὐτά refers to the general sense of the preceding words, as constantly in Thucydides. καί is to be taken closely with the interrogative.

1292. mvp-comment-825-1 'That Pelops was originally a barbarian Phrygian.' The adjective, as suppl. pred., has the force of an adverb, i. e. ἀρχῆθεν or τὸ ἀρχαῖον. Cp. Ant. 593, ἀρχαῖα τὰ Λαβδακιδᾶν, κ.τ.λ. Perhaps τἀρχαῖον should be read. For Φρύγα (a word always used contemptuously, as in Eur. Alc. 675, πότερα Λυδὸν ἢ Φρύγα, κ.τ.λ.), cp. Hdt. 7. 11, Πέλοψ ὁ Φρύξ.

1293. mvp-comment-826-1 ὃς αὖ σ᾽ ἔσπειρε] These words, with δέ, point the antithesis to σοῦ πατρὸς μὲν.. πατήρ, supr. 1291. δυσσεβέστατον has been joined with σέ, and by some with ᾿Ατρέα. But for the addition of this epithet to δεῖπνον οἰκείων τέκνων, to which Hermann objects, cp. O. C. 945, 6, οὐδ᾽ ὅτῳ γάμοι | ξυνόντες εὑρέθησαν ἀνόσιοι τέκνων, Ant. 514.

1297. mvp-comment-827-1 'Gave her up to be devoured by dumb fishes.' The ancient Scholiast says: ἡ ἱστορία ἐν ταῖς Κρήσσαις Εὐριπίδου, ὅτι διαφθαρεῖσαν αὐτὴν λάθρα ὑπὸ θεράποντος, ὁ πατὴρ Ναυπλίῳ παρέδωκεν, ἐντειλάμενος ἀποποντῶσαι· ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνεγγύησε Πλεισθένει. (It is possible also to suppose ὁ φ. πατήρ to mean Atreus, and ἔπακτον ἄνδρα Thyestes.) For the aggravation of the taunt in ἐλλοῖς ἰχθύσιν, cp. Il. 21. 201-4, τὸν δὲ κατ᾿ αὐτόθι λεῖπεν, ἐπεὶ φίλον ἦτορ ἀπηύρα, | κείμενον ἐν ψαμάθοισι, δίαινε δέ μιν μέλαν ὕδωρ. | τὸν μὲν ἄρ᾽ ἐγχέλυές τε καὶ ἰχθύες ἀμφεπένοντο, | δημὸν ἐρεπτόμενοι ἐπινεφρίδιον κείροντες. διαφθοράν is either (1) accusative in apposition with the sentence, expressing the result of the action, or (2) abstract for concrete, in apposition with αὐτήν understood as the object of ἐφῆκεν. Cp. Aesch. Prom. 582 foll., πυρί με φλέξον .. ἢ ποντίοις δάκεσι δὸς βοράν.

1298. mvp-comment-828-1 τοιῷδ'] Herm. preferred τοιάνδ', which is found in some MSS.

1299. mvp-comment-829-1 πατρὸς μέν] The δέ answering to this μέν ( μητρὸς δὲ βασιλείας, or the like) is lost through the introduction of the relative clause in l. 1300.

1301. mvp-comment-830-1 ἴσχει] Historical present.

1302. mvp-comment-831-1 βασίλεια, Λαομέδοντος] 'A princess, daughter of Laomedon.'

1302-1303. mvp-comment-832-1 ἔκκριτον δέ νιν, κ.τ.λ.] This shows that she was not only the noblest, but the most beautiful.

1304-1305. mvp-comment-833-1 'Should I, thus nobly born from princes on both sides, reflect disgrace upon my kin?' Cp. Il. 6. 208-10, αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν . . μηδὲ γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν, οἱ μέγ᾽ ἄριστοι | ἔν τ᾽ Ἐφύρῃ ἐγένοντο καὶ ἐν Λυκίῃ εὐρείῃ.

1306. mvp-comment-834-1 τοιοῖσδ᾽ ἐν πόνοισι κειμένους] Cp. supr. 924, ὡς καὶ παρ᾿ ἐχθροῖς ἄξιος θρήνων τυχεῖν.

1307. mvp-comment-835-1 οὐδ᾽ ἐπαισχύνει λέγων] ‘And are not ashamed to speak of it.' Cp. Phil. 929 and note.

1308. mvp-comment-836-1 τοῦτον εἰ βαλεῖτέ που] ‘If ye shall cast him forth, no matter where.' Cp. infr. 1333, ἄθαπτον . . βαλεῖν.

1309. mvp-comment-837-1 'It will not be till ye have laid low us three together with him.' Teucer, Eurysaces, and Tecmessa, will die in defending the corpse. Others, following Triclinius, understand the meaning to be, 'If you attempt to cast him forth, you will lay me and yourself beside him, three laid together.'

1310. mvp-comment-838-1 ὑπερπονουμένῳ] For the middle voice, cp. El. 399, πεσούμεθ', εἰ χρή, πατρὶ τιμωρούμενοι.

1311. mvp-comment-839-1 προδήλως] Teucer means by this that it would be more glorious to die in open quarrel for Ajax than to find an obscure grave amongst those whom he spoke of, supr. 1112, as οἱ πόνου πολλοῦ πλέῳ.

1312. mvp-comment-840-1 Erfurdt's correction (see v. rr.) appears necessary. It is barely possible that ἢ.. τε may = ἢ καί, but far more probable that γε was changed to τε by accident, and τε to θε by mistaken correction. And γε is expressive, 'Ay, or shall I say?' as if replying to a tacit demurrer. Teucer in his anger, like Achilles in Il. 9. 327, δάρων ἕνεκα σφερεράων, does not choose to discriminate nicely the relation of Helen to the Atreidae.

1313. mvp-comment-841-1 ὅρα μὴ τοὐμόν] Cp. supr. 1255, 6, καὶ σοὶ προσέρπον τοῦτ᾽ ἐγὼ τὸ φάρμακον | ὁρῶ, where Agamemnon professes to warn Teucer for his good.

1315. mvp-comment-842-1 θρασύς] Sc. γεγενῆσθαι.

1316. mvp-comment-843-1 καιρόν] For this adverbial accusative, cp. supr. 34 and note: Pind. Pyth. 1. 156, καιρὸν εἰ φθέγξαιο.

1316-1317. mvp-comment-844-1 (1) 'If you are come not to entangle, but to assist in adjusting this matter.' Or, (2) 'If not in time to begin the fray, at all events you are here to help in ending it.' The expression seems in either case to be proverbial. In support of (2) it may be said that the Chorus can have no doubt that the coming of Odysseus will help to compose strife. In this case (2) the verbs ἴσθι, πάρει, without connecting particle, may be either viewed as an asyndeton, or πάρει may be regarded as a resumption of ἐληλυθώς, returning to the indicative mood. The interpretation turns upon the question, which is the more natural image, that of a knot (or complication), for which, cp. Ant. 40, λύουσ᾽ ἂν ἢ 'φάπτουσα, or that of joining battle ( ξυνάπτειν τινὰς ἐς μάχην, νείκεα λύειν). 'Odysseus comes at the end of a fray.'

1319. mvp-comment-845-1 τῷδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἀλκίμῳ νεκρῷ] The difference of Odysseus' spirit is at once seen in this tribute to the valour of his enemy. The part taken by him here is in accordance with his feeling in Od. 11. 548-51, ὡς δὴ μὴ ὄφελον νικᾶν τοιῷδ᾽ ἐπ᾿ ἀέθλῳ· | τοίην γὰρ κεφαλὴν ἕνεκ᾿ αὐτῶν γαῖα κατέσχεν, | Αἴανθ', ὃς πέρι μὲν εἶδος, πέρι δ᾽ ἔργα τέτυκτο | τῶν ἄλλων Δαναῶν, μετ᾿ ἀμύμονα Πηλείωνα.

1322-1323. mvp-comment-846-1 Odysseus will not commit himself to a condemnation of Teucer till he knows what has been said. 'Perhaps he only spoke under provocation.' Ср. O. T. 523, 4, ἀλλ᾽ ἦλθε μὲν δὴ τοῦτο τοῦνειδος τάχ᾽ ἂν | ὀργῇ βιασθὲν μᾶλλον ἢ γνώμῃ φρενῶν.

1323. mvp-comment-847-1 συμβαλεῖν] For this epexegetic inf. cp. Thuc. 3. 40. § 1, ξυγγνώμην ἁμαρτεῖν ἀνθρωπίνως λήψονται. συμβαλεῖν] Sc. τοῖς φλαύροις.

1324-1325. mvp-comment-848-1 Teucer had as yet done nothing, but only expressed an intention which Agamemnon treats as an act. Odysseus ironically professes not to understand him. He is not aware that Teucer has done any harm.

1326-1327. mvp-comment-849-1 Here, as in Ant. 485, εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἀνατὶ τῇδε κείσεται κράτη, the defence of a right is censured by the tyrant as an act of tyranny.

1328. mvp-comment-850-1 φίλῳ may be taken in three ways, (1) agreeing with the subject of εἰπόντι, 'May a friend say the truth without offence?' or (2) agreeing with the remote object of εἰπόντι, 'May one speak the truth to a friend without offence?' or (3) agreeing with σοί in l. 1329, 'May one speak the truth and still work with you as my friend?' The choice lies between (1) and (2): and the comparison of l. 1331, φίλον σ᾽ ἐγώ, κ.τ.λ., inclines the balance in favour of (1).

1329. mvp-comment-851-1 Although ξυνηρεμεῖν, the reading of L pr. is not a vox nihili, —see L. and S., ξυνηρετεῖν, following the analogy of ὑπηρετεῖν, is much more probable, and the letter erased above the μ in L (see v. rr.) was probably T, so that ξυνηρετμεῖν has arisen from a confusion of the two readings. It has been tolerated even by some modern editors, though less supported by analogy than either ξυνηρετεῖν or ξυνηρεμεῖν.

1330. mvp-comment-852-1 εἴην . . φρονῶν] Sc. εἰ μὴ οὕτως εἶχεν, according to a common idiom.

1334. mvp-comment-853-1 ἡ βία] 'The spirit of tyranny.' Cp. infr. 1357. For a similar use of ἀρχή, cp. Thuc. 3. 82. § 16.

1335. mvp-comment-854-1 τοσόνδε μισεῖν] 'To carry hate so far.' The absolute use of the verb is noticeable. Cp. El. 357, σὺ δ' ἡμὶν ἡ μισοῦσα μισεῖς μὲν λόγῳ.

1336. mvp-comment-855-1 καμοί] 'To me also,' as well as to you and Menelaus.

1337. mvp-comment-856-1 Cp. Phil. 1292, πρότεινε χεῖρα, καὶ κράτει τῶν σῶν ὅπλων: Thuc. 3. 47, ἐπειδή τε ὅπλων ἐκράτησεν.

1339. mvp-comment-857-1 οὐκ *ἀντατιμάσαιμ' ἄν] This reading, though found in no MS., is nearer to the first hand of L, and also more pointed, than οὔκουν ἀτ. ἄv, the reading of C and some inferior MSS. ἀντατιμάζω does not occur elsewhere, but is supported by the analogy of ἀνταδικεῖν.

1340. mvp-comment-858-1 ἕν᾿ ἄνδρ᾿ ἰδεῖν ἄριστον ᾿Αργείων] 'That he stood alone, so far as I could see, as the noblest of the Argives.' ἕν᾿ ἄνδρα is here intensive. Cp. Aesch. Pers. 327, εἰς ἀνὴρ πλεῖστον πόνον . . παρασχών.

1341. mvp-comment-859-1 πλὴν ᾿Αχιλλέως] Cp. the lines of the 11th Odyssey quoted above, note on 1319; and Alcaeus, Fr. 48, τὸν ἄριστον πέδ᾽ ᾿Αχίλλεα: Pind. Nem. 7. 40, κράτιστον ᾿Αχιλέος ἄτερ.

1342. mvp-comment-860-1 ἀτιμάζοιτο] The passive, while emphasizing the verb, avoids the 2nd person. (E. on L. § 31. p. 1. 53 a, p. 1. 54 b.)

1344-1345. mvp-comment-861-1 εἰ θάνοι] For the optative in supposing a general case, see Essay on L. § 36. p. 61a (1) . Join ἄνδρα . . τὸν ἐσθλόν.

1346. mvp-comment-862-1 'Do you mean, Odysseus, thus to fight on his side against me?'

1347. mvp-comment-863-1 ἡνίκ'] 'At the moment when-.' i. e. When he was known to have destroyed the herds, supr. 18, 31, 78, 122. In all these places, however, the hatred on the part of Ajax is more dwelt upon than that of Odysseus.

1349. mvp-comment-864-1 κέρδεσιν.] Cp. Athene's ironical words to Ajax, supr. 107, πρὶν ἂν τί . . κερδάνῃς πλέον. For the strength of ethical association in μὴ καλοῖς, cp. Thuc. 3. 55, where the Plataeans, pleading for their lives, state as a reason for having clung to Athens, καὶ προδοῦναι αὐτοὺς οὐκέτι ἣν καλόν : also Phil. 1304, ἀλλ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἐμοὶ τοῦτ᾽ ἐστὶν οὔτε σοὶ καλόν.

1350. mvp-comment-865-1 'A monarch cannot always observe the rule of piety.' Agamemnon, like the Athenian envoys at Melos, has recourse to 'necessity, the tyrant's plea.'

1351. mvp-comment-866-1 'But he can favourably regard the good advice of his friend.' Sc. δυνατὸν ἐστιν αὐτῷ. implied in ῥᾴδιον, supr.

1352. mvp-comment-867-1 τὸν ἐσθλὸν ἄνδρα] He echoes Odysseus' words, supr. 1344, 5: 'If, as you say, he had been a good man, he would have obeyed authority.'

1353. mvp-comment-868-1 Enough. In yielding to a

1353. mvp-comment-868-2 friend you get your own way.' Cp. the στιχομυθία in Aesch. Agam. 940-3. The implied reasoning is, 'Your friend desires your good, therefore in yielding your will to his you have your will.'

1355. mvp-comment-869-1 Ajax' envious conduct since the award of the arms should not obliterate the remembrance of his former nobleness.

1357. mvp-comment-870-1 τῆς ἔχθρας] 'Kindness prevails with me before enmity.' Sc. μᾶλλον, implied in νικᾷ. For the meaning of ἀρετή, cp. Thuc. 2. 34. §§ 6, 7. It is here partly the spirit of beneficence, partly 'the wish to be thought kind.' See Essay on L. § 39. p. 73 b.

1358. mvp-comment-871-1 Men who speak thus are prone to rashness.' τοιοίδε, sc. ὥστε τὴν ἀρετὴν τῆς ἔχθρας προτιμᾶσθαι. For the addition of βροτῶν, see Essay on L. § 40. p. 75, 3 ; and cp. especially O. C. 281, φωτὸς ἀνοσίου βροτῶν.

1359. mvp-comment-872-1 'Surely it is no new thing for those now friendly to be hereafter hostile.' Odysseus hints at the truth which Ajax professed to have learned, supr. 678-683. Ajax' love and service to the Argives has turned to bitterness. So has that of many before him; and so will that of many after him. Therefore revenge against him should have an end.

1360. mvp-comment-873-1 'Is that the sort of friend you would recommend?' i.e. If Ajax was so fickle, do you advise me to treat him as a friend? Agamemnon speaks of an act of common humanity as if it implied special friendship.

1361. mvp-comment-874-1 'I care not to approve of hardness.' ἐπαινεῖν is echoed without being directly in point.

1363. mvp-comment-875-1 Ἕλλησι πᾶσιν] ‘In the sight of Hellas.'

1364. mvp-comment-876-1 Agamemnon shows signs of yielding, but in doing so prepares to throw the responsibility upon Odysseus,

1365. mvp-comment-877-1 This line must be interpreted with reference to the train of thought (or of dialectic) which follows it, and which ends the dispute. Odysseus gains his object (1) by quiet firmness, (2) by representing the burial of Ajax as a favour to himself (ll. 1371, 2). He therefore does not repel, but wilily admits, the insinuation of interested motives made by Agamemnon in l. 1366. But how is Agamemnon brought to make this insinuation? According to a current explanation of l. 1365, it is by Odysseus' saying, 'I urge upon you the burial of Ajax, because I too shall come

1365. mvp-comment-877-2 to this,' viz. to death. The sentiment is a noble one, and is in accordance with Odysseus' words to Athena in supr. 124 (οὐδὲν τὸ τούτου μᾶλλον ἢ τοὐμὸν σκοπῶν). But how can it provoke even from the most short-sighted of mortals an accusation of selfishness? For the 'I' in this case is 'I and you, and all men.' It is better therefore to understand Odysseus to say, 'I urge this course upon you because I mean to follow it,' i.e. My vote in the council will be given in favour of permitting the funeral. Odysseus thus tacitly sets his moral influence against the authoritative voice of Agamemnon; whose rejoinder in 1366 is then the natural expression of a weak man in office who is losing the support of a powerful subordinate. 'It is the way of the world! Every man seeks his own ends, I see!' And Odysseus in 1367, without caring to resent the sneer, simply reaffirms his right to take a line of his own, and pleads the reasonableness of his trying to win those in authority over to his side. On which Agamemnon (1. 1368) throws the entire responsibility on Odysseus, and Odysseus says (1. 1369), 'That makes no difference. Your consent, in whatever terms it is granted, will be equally kind.' If this is rejected, l. 1366 must refer not to Odysseus' words, but merely to his attitude of dissent. l. 1367 is thus less pointed. For the meaning given to ἐνθάδ᾽ ἴξομαι, l. 1365, cp. Eur. Androm. 342, ἀλλ᾿ εἶσιν οἱ χρή, -and for ὡς ἄν, l. 1369, ср. O. C. 1361, and note.

1371. mvp-comment-878-1 σοὶ μέν, κ.τλ.] For this ungracious expression, cp. О. Т. 671, 2, τό γὰρ σόν, οὐ τὸ τοῦδ᾽, ἐποικτείρω στόμα | ἐλεινόν, οὗτος δ᾽, ἔνθ᾽ ἂν ᾖ, στυγήσεται.

1372. mvp-comment-879-1 κἀκεῖ κἀνθάδ'] E. on L. §41.p.78.

1373. mvp-comment-880-1 σοὶ δὲ . . ἃ†χρή.] 'You may do what you must:' an ill-humoured way of saying, 'Do as you please.' χρή, although rejected by Dindorf and others in favour of χρῇς, i. e χρήζεις, is not inexpressive, and is possibly right. Cp. El. 606.— Exit Agamemnon.

1375. mvp-comment-881-1 τοιοῦτον ὄντα] ‘While you act in this way.' Cp. Phil. 1049, οὗ γὰρ τοιούτων δεῖ, τοιοῦτός εἰμ᾿ ἐγώ.

1376. mvp-comment-882-1 ἀγγέλλομαι]. 'I declare myself.' Cp. Thuc. 8. 86. § 8, ἐπαγγελλόμενοι .. ὥστε βοηθεῖν.

1382. mvp-comment-883-1 λόγοισι] ‘By reason of thy speech.' Essay on L. § 41. p. 21 b (2) . ἔψευσας ἐλπίδος] Cp. Ο. Τ. 1432, ἐπείπερ ἐλπίδος μ᾿ ἀπέσπασας.

1383. mvp-comment-884-1 ἔχθιστος] 'Most hated,' as supr. 818, μάλιστα μισηθέντος, ἐχθίστου θ᾽ ὁρᾶν.

1384. mvp-comment-885-1 χερσίν] 'With effective aid.' Odysseus had not only spoken in Ajax' behalf, but had offered actual help. παρών is little more than expletive here, but suggests that Odysseus was too noble to stand by and see wrong done to his dead enemy.

1385. mvp-comment-886-1 θανόντι.. ζῶν] Essay on L. § 14. p. 76.

1386. mvp-comment-887-1 οὐπιβρόντητος] ἐπιβρόντητος is either (1) 'senseless;' or (2) 'deserving the lightning-stroke.' Cp. supr. 103, τοὐπίτριπτον κίναδος, and note.

1389. mvp-comment-888-1 Ὀλύμπου τοῦδ] Olympus in Sophocles almost loses the notion of place, and is associated with the sky overhead. Ant. 758, οὔ, τόνδ' Ὅλυμπον.

1390. mvp-comment-889-1 μνήμων] Cp. especially Aesch. Eum. 381-3, κακῶν τε μνήμονες σεμναὶ καὶ δυσπαρήγοροι βροτοῖς.

1392. mvp-comment-890-1 λώβαις] Injuriously. For this dative of manner, see Essay on L. § 14. p. 20 a , and cp. especially Ant. 1003, σπῶντας . . ἀλλήλους φοναῖς. The expression is justified by Menelaus' words, supr. 1064, 5.

1395. mvp-comment-891-1 Cp. Od. 11. 543, 563. Teucer fears that the spirit of Ajax will be offended if Odysseus stands beside his grave. In Herodotus, 5. 67, the dead hero Adrastus is supposed by Cleisthenes of Sicyon to be disgusted by his adoption of the dead hero Melanippus, son of Astacus.

1396-1397. mvp-comment-892-1 κεἴ τινα στρατοῦ | θέλεις

1397. mvp-comment-893-1 κομίζειν] (1) ' And if you wish to bring any member of the host.' Or (2) 'If you wish any of the host to carry him;'—(not to bury him.' κομίζειν has not the meaning of συγκομίζειν, supr. 1048. In Eur. Androm. 1263, 4, ἀλλ᾽ ἕρπε Δελφῶν ἐς θεόδμητον πόλιν | νεκρὸν κομίζων τόνδε, the meaning is, 'Go and take this dead body to Delphi's god-built town.')

1398. mvp-comment-894-1 Observe the repetition of τἄλλα after τὰ ἄλλα, with a different reference.

1401. mvp-comment-895-1 ἐπαινέσας τὸ σόν] ‘Approving your decision,' i. e. not complaining of it.

1402ff. mvp-comment-896-1 Exodos. The anapaests give the signal for departure, and probably indicate that Ajax is not to be buried in the fatal spot, but is carried off the stage in solemn procession.

1402. mvp-comment-897-1 The unseemly interruption of the Atreidae has delayed the burial.

1403-1408. mvp-comment-898-1 Perhaps the tripod and the armour were carried in the procession, which would go forth while the Chorus or the Coryphaeus chanted ll. 1418-20. During the words of Teucer, various attendants are moving to and fro, until at l. 1413 all is ready, and the procession forms.

1404-1405. mvp-comment-899-1 ταχύνετε .. θέσθ'] The digging of the grave takes time. The tripod is set up in a moment. Hence the change of tense.

1404-1406. mvp-comment-900-1 τοὶ. ἐπικαίρον] ‘Others set over the fire the tripod on its lofty stand, ready to serve for pure lustration." The words of Ajax, supr. 654, compared with 862, suggest that he bathed himself before his end. But Teucer could not know this, and in any case the lustration was necessary, especially after the self-violence. For ἀμφίπυρον, which is predicative, cp. Il. 18. 344, ἀμφὶ πυρὶ στῆσαι τρίποδα μέγαν. τοί continues the epic note struck in κοίλην κάπετον. λουτρῶν is a genitive of respect after ἐπίκαιρον, 'With a view to,' 'For the purpose of.' Cp. Thuc. 3. 92. § 5, τοῦ πολέμου καλῶς . . καθίστασθαι.

1407-1408. mvp-comment-901-1 According to the wish of Ajax expressed to the mariners, supr. 572 foll., his body-armour is to be buried with him, while the shield is leſt to Eurysaces. The Chorus must be supposed to have communicated this message to Teucer. See Introduction. Join ἐκ κλισίας φερέτω. The crowd who have gathered are now ready as one man to obey Teucer.

1409-1413. mvp-comment-902-1 'Yes, and do thou, dear boy, as far as thy strength allows, help me thus to lift thy father's frame, applying thy hands with loving care. For the darkened life-current still issues from

1409-1413. mvp-comment-902-2 the warm arteries.' The clause with γάρ gives the reason for the addition of φιλότητι θιγών. The σύριγγες are the circular mouths of the several arteries, which were imagined to be full of air, and to blow forth the blood. ἄνω is 'into the air.' Cp. Phil. 783, τόδ᾽ ἐκ βυθοῦ | κηκῖον αἷμα. Others, comparing supr. 918 (when the wound was recent), explain σύριγγες of the nostrils, and suppose Teucer merely to raise the shoulders in order to stay the flow of blood.

1415. mvp-comment-903-1 τῷδ᾽ ἀνδρί] Essay on L. § 12. p. 18.

1416. mvp-comment-904-1 κοὐδενί πω λῴονι] The whole clause is affected by attraction. Essay on L. § 35. p. 60 ; and cp. 'nonsuch,' 'nonpareil,' 'on ne peut mieux,' and similar idioms of modern speech.

1417. mvp-comment-905-1 [Αίαντος.. φωνῶ] 'Than Ajax, I speak of the time when he was in life.' This line is open to question, chiefly on the metrical ground of the awkwardness of closing a system of marching anapaests with two paroemiacs. For ὅτ᾽ ἦν, cp. Eur. Fr. 313 (the shade of Bellerophon is apostrophizing his former self), ἦσθ᾽ εἰς θεοὺς μὲν εὐσεβής, ὅτ᾽ ἦσθ', ἀεί, κ.τ.λ.

1420. mvp-comment-906-1 ὅ τι πράξει] 'What his fortune will be.' Cp. Ο. Τ. 73, 4, καί μ᾽ ἦμαρ ἤδη . . λυπεῖ, τί πράσσει.