ναίεις: cp. Il. 2. 626“νήσων, αἳ ναίουσι πέρην ἁλός.” ἁλίπλακτος (“πλήσσω”), not “ἁλίπλαγκτος” (“πλάζω”), is right here; the latter has the better MS. authority, but could mean only, ‘wandering on the sea,’ as in 695 “Πὰν ἁλίπλαγκτε”. Cp. Pind. P. 4. 14“τᾶσδ᾽ ἐξ ἁλιπλάκτου..γᾶς” (the island of Thera). Aesch. Pers. 307“θαλασσόπληκτον νῆσον Αἴαντος”. πᾶσιν περίφαντος ἀεί does not allude to the victory at Salamis, but, for Athenian ears, would necessarily be tinged with the thought of it.
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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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