Sophocles Ajax 67

Robert Potter (Translator)

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But tell us how this sudden ill began;
For we too melt in sympathy of woe.

Ajax. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.

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

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Editions (4)
Αἴας μαστιγοφόρος First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Aiax. Lobeck Christian, editor. Berlin: Weidmann, 1866.) — 1-171 focus
Αἴας First1KGreek (Sophocles. Sophoclis Fabulae. Pearson, Alfred Chilton, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 1-171 focus
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 67 focus
ὡς πᾶσιν ᾿Αργείοισιν εἰσιδὼν θροῇς.
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 1-171 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 67 focus
TEC
He in his rage had rapture of delight
And knew not how he grieved us who stood near
And saw the madding tempest ruining him.
But now ’tis over and he breathes anew,
The counterblast of sorrow shakes his soul,
275
Whilst our affliction vexeth as before,
Have we not double for our single woe?
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 74 focus
Was thust du, Pallas? Nimmermehr ruf' ihn heraus -
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 67 focus
Tecmessa
Louder you'll hear him soon ; marked ye, my
friends,
How deep his groans ]
335
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 1-170 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-181-1 τίς γάρ 1

mvp-comment-181-2 προσέπτατο 2

mvp-comment-181-3 From the Homeric

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

mvp-comment-181-4 τύχας 3 δήλωσον 4 τύχαις 5 ξυναλγοῦσιν 6

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

282-283. mvp-comment-201-1 'In what wise lighted on you the commencement of the trouble? Tell us, who grieve with you at the misfortune, what it is.' τύχας, continuing the notion of κακοῦ, is governed either (1) both of δήλωσον and of ξυναλγοῦσιν, or (2) of ξυναλγοῦσιν only.