Tecmessa
Behold I open them: thou may'st now view
His deeds, and all the misery of his state.
Ajax. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
Ajax. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))
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mvp-comment-220-1 διοίγω 1
mvp-comment-220-2 πράγη 2
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The
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Ajax, sitting among his victims, and meditating his own destruction, was the subject of a famous picture by Timomachus of Byzantium. Philostratus (
Vit. Apoll. 2. 22 § 5) thus describes it:
346. mvp-comment-249-1 ἐκκύκλημα. Ajax is disclosed with signs of slaughter about him. He is sitting upright. The slaughtered sheep are the evidence of his situation ( τὰ τοῦδε πράγη): his wild, dishevelled appearance betrays the condition of his mind ( αὐτὸς ὡς ἔχων κυρεῖ).