Sophocles Ajax 235

Robert Potter (Translator)

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Menelaus
TEUS.
Erewhile I saw a man of doughty tongue
Rating the mariners to hoist their sails,
While a storm threaten'd: but when danger rose,
Howling amidst the tempest, not a word
From that bold tongue was heard; wrapt in his cloke
He lay, and suffer'd every sailor's foot
At will to trample on him. So the force...
Of an impetuous tempest bursting black
From a small cloud may in a moment check
Thee, and thy boisterous tongue, and all thy noise.
And I once saw a man, with folly fraught
Insulting those around him when oppress'd
With ills. A man resembling me, and warm
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With my free spirit, saw him, and rebuked
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With words like these, Vain mortal to the dead
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Offer no wrong; else, be assured, that wrong
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Shall be repaid with vengeance. Thus he warn'd
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The futile wretch. Methinks I see him: thou
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Art he, no other. Speak I riddles now?::
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Ill it becomes me to rebuke with words
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One whom my pow'r can force. I leave thee now.
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TRUC. Go, get thee hence: to me it were a shame
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To listen to a slight man's senseless words.
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Ajax. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.

Current edition Experimental

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (4)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 215-257 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 214-262 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 237 focus
δύο δ᾽ ἀργίποδας κριοὺς ἀνελὼν
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 214-262 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 235 focus
OD
Enter ODYSSEUS .
What quarrel, sirs? I well perceived from far
The kings high-voicing o’er the valiant dead.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 233 focus
Weh! Dorther, dorther kam er zu uns,
225
Und führte die Heerd' in gefesseltem Zug;
Und die einen erwürgt' er am Boden im Zelt,
Und die anderen hieb er mitten entzwei,
Griff zween weißfüßige Widder sodann,
Mäht' einem das Haupt und die Zunge herab,
230
Und warf sie hinweg;
Und den anderen band er am Pfeiler empor,
Und faßte den Roßzaum doppelt und schwang
Und geißelte, daß hell schwirrte der Schlag,
Schmachworte zugleich ausschüttend, die nur
235
Ein Gott, kein Mensch, ihm gelehrt hat.
Gegenstrophe.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 235 focus
Agamemnon
But know, the good
And virtuous still submit to those who rule.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 214-260 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-683-1 πάρα 1

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 2

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

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.