πεδία is the acc. describing the ground traversed (as we can say, ‘to walk the earth’): cp. 845: Aesch. P. V. 708“στεῖχ᾽ ἀνηρότους γύας”: Helen. 598 “πᾶσαν πλανηθεὶς τήνδε βάρβαρον χθόνα”: Callim. Hymn. Dian. 193 “ἐφοίτα ι παίπαλά τε κρημνούς τε”. νεορράντῳ (as in 828), ‘newly sprinkled’ with blood: a compound suggested to the poet by the frequent use of “ῥαίνω” in that connection; as Il. 12. 430“ἐπάλξιες αἵματι φωτῶν ι ἐρράδατ̓”: Pind. I. 7. 50“ῥαίνων φόνῳ πεδίον”.—When thus seen, Ajax was in the act of driving the animals that still lived to his tent: πηδῶντα describes his wild gestures of triumph.
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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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