λόγος … ἀνθρώπων, as Archil. fr. 86 “α<*>νός τις ἀνθρώπων ὅδε”: Pind. O.7. 54“ἀνθρώπων παλαιαὶ ῥήσιες”, id. Pind. N.9. 6“ἔστι δέ τις λόγος ἀνθρώπων”: Soph. Ai.664“ἡ βροτῶν παροιμία. ἀρχαῖος” goes adverbially with φανείς, ‘put forth of old’; cp. Soph. Ant.593 f. “ἀρχαῖα”... | ...“πίπτοντ̓”: and ib. 621 “σοφίᾳ γὰρ ἔκ του κλεινὸν ἔπος πέφανται” (n.). L's accentuation, ἔστ̓, is right: “ἐστὶ φανείς” as=“πέφανται” would be weak here. For the order of the words (“ἀνθρώπων” separating “ἀρχαῖος” from “φανείς”), cp. Soph. Ant.944 f. As to the “γνώμη” itself, see Soph. O. T.1529 n. Boissonade (Notul. in Trach., 1), replying to the criticism that this “γνώμη” passed as Solon's, quotes a remark of Balzac's to this effect: ‘though Deianeira was older than Solon, she was younger than proverbial philosophy.’ So Ajax cites a maxim ascribed to Bias ( Soph. Ai.679).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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