Instead of κεῖνος, we might have looked for “αὐτός”: but the former has been preferred, because it better marks the antithesis between Ajax and his friends. πᾶς, adverbial: Ph. 386“πόλις γάρ ἐστι πᾶσα τῶν ἡγουμένων.” ἐλήλαται: Tr. 1045（“συμφορὰς”) “οἵαις.. ἐλαύνεται” (n.). For the emphatic perf., cp. El. 64.Here it expresses that complete prostration has at once followed the return of sanity: cp. Plat. Phaedop. 80 D “ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ..ἀπαλλαττομένη τοῦ σώματος εὐθὺς διαπεφύσηται καὶ ἀπόλωλεν”.
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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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