ἕρποντι φωνεῖς...; the partic. expresses the leading idea; cp. O. C. 1038“χωρῶν ἀπείλει νῦν” (n.). λελειμμένῳλόγων, unable to catch the sound of thy words; schol. in L, “οὐκ ἀκούοντι”. Cp. Eur. Or. 1085“ἦ πολὺ λέλειψαι τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων” (‘laggest far behind them,’—failest to comprehend them): Helen. 1246 “λέλειμμαι τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησιν νόμων” (‘am not versed in them’).
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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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