Sophocles Philoctetes 1431

ed. Lewis Campbell

ἃ δ᾽ ἂν λάβῃς σὺ σκῦλα τοῦδε τοῦ στρατοῦ,

Philoctetes. Sophocles. ed. Lewis Campbell. Oxford. 1879.

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Translations (1)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 1445 focus
Du, der willkommenen Ruf mir gesandt
Und endlich erscheint,
1405
Wie freudig gehorch' ich deinem Gebot!

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-762-1 ἃ δ’ ἂν λάβῃς 1

mvp-comment-762-2 After the relative clause,

ἃ δ’ ἂν λάβῃς
, we understand, not
ταῦτα
(in apposition with
μνημεῖα
), but a partitive gen.,
τούτων
. This construction is a simple and natural one. For the partitive gen. thus understood, cp. n. on 1161 f., and Xen. Cyr. 8. 1. 20 quoted there. The sentence could have no ambiguity for a Greek audience, familiar with the custom that, after a victory, a part of the spoil (usually a
δεκάτη
) should be dedicated to the gods. Cp. Her. 8. 121 (after the battle of Salamis)
διεδάσαντο τὴν ληίην καὶ τὰ ἀκροθίνια ἀπέπεμψαν ἐς Δελφούς
. Xen. Anab. 5. 3. 4
τὴν δεκάτην ἣν τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι ἐξεῖλον καὶ τῇ Ἐφεσίᾳ Ἀρτέμιδι διέλαβον οἱ στρατηγοί, τὸ μέρος ἕκαστος, φυλάττειν τοῖς θεοῖς
. As Cavallin remarks, the passage was rightly understood by the schol. on 1432,
ἐκ τῶν ἀριστείων κἀμὲ τίμησον
. For the simple gen., τοῦδε τοῦ στρατοῦ 2 λάβῃς 3

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

1431. mvp-comment-943-1 τοῦδε τοῦ στρατοῦ] Sc. τοῦ Τρωϊκοῦ. For this vague use of the pronoun ὅδε, see Essay on L. § 22. p. 34 , and cp. supr. 1426, ὃς τῶνδ᾽ αἴτιος κακῶν ἔφυ, τοῦδε τοῦ πόνου. Schndw. conj. τοῦ δῄου στρατοῦ.