οὐ φήσ᾽ ἐάσειν..ἀλλὰ … θάψειν: cp. Her. 7. 104“οὐκ ἐῶν φεύγειν.. ἀλλὰ μένοντας..ἐπικρατέειν”. So in O.T. 241 “ὠθεῖν” depends on “αὐδῶ” supplied from “ἀπαυδῶ” (veto) in 236. ταφῆς ἄμοιρον, without its due “μοῖρα” of funeral rites. In Ant. 1071“ἄμοιρος” (without “ταφῆς”) has this sense, the context sufficing to define it,— “ἄμοιρον, ἀκτέριστον, ἀνόσιον νέκυν”.
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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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