ἀνήλωσας. Attic inscriptions, from the 5th cent. B.C. onwards, show that the aor. and perf. of “ἀναλόω” regularly took the temporal augment. No unaugmented form (such as “ἀνάλωσα”) occurs in them. See Meisterhans, § 40. 6, who quotes Moeris, p. 23: “ἀνηλωμένον Ἀττικῶς, ἀναλωμένον Ἑλληνικῶς” (i.e. in the “κοινὴ διάλεκτος”). The slow movement of the verse (with only quasi-caesura after the 3rd foot) is intended to mark haughty surprise. Cp. Ant. 44“ἦ γὰρ νοεῖς θάπτειν σφ̓, ἀπόρρητον πόλει;”
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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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