Notes on Greek tragedy, II

Abstract

So Pearson. The strange series of hypodochmiacs here and atO.T.1207 ff. (cf.E.Or.982–4), with brevis in longo without pause atAj.421 andO.T.1208 (possibly also 1217), seems metrically self-contained, despite their syntactical interdependence (esp.Aj.421–2οὐκέτ' ἄνδρα μὴ | τόνδ' ἴδητ', so that the word-overlap ofοἷονinto iambics in Pearson's text is unlikely.ἑξερῶ μέγαshould therefore be writtenplena scriptura. Thenοἷον οὔτιν' ἁ Τροί|α στρατοῦ…is possible, but the ithyphallic with word-overlap, sometimes found in the syncopated iambics of Aeschylus, is foreign to Sophocles. Divideἐξερῶ μέγα, | οἷον οὔτινα | Τροία…Thenϕίλοι τοῖσδ' ὁμοῦ = οἷον οὔτινα, i.e.δ= hyp., which is not certainly found, and the antistrophe has two syllables extra.