ὡς … ἠθελησάτην, instead of “ὡς..ἔτλησαν, ἐθέλοντες”. Such compression is frequent, esp. after “οὐχ ὥσπερ”: e.g. Plat. Gorg. 522A “πεινῆν καὶ διψῆν ἀναγκάζων, οὐχ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ πολλὰ καὶ ἡδέα καὶ παντοδαπὰ εὐώχουν ὑμᾶς”: Plat. Symp. 179E “ἐποίησαν τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ γυναικῶν γενέσθαι, οὐχ ὥσπερ Ἀχιλλέα τὸν τῆς Θέτιδος υἱὸν ἐτίμησαν”. οὑπιβρόντητος, crazy with arrogance (cp. 1225 “σκαιὸν”). Dem. or. 19 § 231 (“ἡγοῦντο”) “ἐμβεβροντῆσθαι”, they thought him crazed: id. or. 18 § 243 “ἐμβρόντητε, ε<*>῀τα νῦν λέγεις;” Ar. Eccl. 793“ὠμβρόντητε σύ”. Xen. An. 3. 4. 12(of a besieged city) “Ζεὺς δὲ ἐμβροντήτους ποιεῖ τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας, καὶ οὕτως ἑάλω”. P.V. 361 (of Typhon) “φρένας γὰρ εἰς αὐτὰς τυπεὶς ι ἐφεψαλώθη κἀξεβροντήθη σθένος”. (The form “ἐπιβρόντητος” occurs only here.) μολὼν, though a dual verb follows: cp. Eur. Alc. 734“ἔρρων” (so schol., “ἔρροις” vulg.) “νυν αὐτὸς χἡ συνοικήσασά σοι ι ... γηράσκετε”: Xen. An. 7. 1. 40“προσελθὼν δὲ Τιμασίων..καὶ Νέων..ἔλεγον.” αὐτός τε χὡ ξύναιμος: this redundant “αὐτός τε” often occurs when the mention of the other person or persons is an afterthought: O.C. 462 “αὐτός τε παῖδές θ᾽ αἵδε” (n.).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VII: The Ajax. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1907.
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