τοὺς θεῶν νόμους. The injury done will not be to the senseless clay, but rather to the “νέρτεροι θεοί”, to whom the dead belong ( Ant. 1070), and to their unwritten laws, ‘which live for ever’ (ib. 456). Cp. 1129 f.
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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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