εὔφρονες Ἀργείοις: as supplying them with water. So in 863 the “ποταμοί” of the plain are called “τροφῆς”.— Not: ‘friendly to my Greek foes, but hostile to me.’ Nor should the words be taken adverbially with “οὐκέτ᾽ ἄνδρα μὴ τόνδ᾽ ἴδητ̓”, as meaning, ‘No longer, allies of the Greeks, will ye see me,’— i.e., ‘You will no longer see me victorious beside your favouring stream.’
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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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