συντρόφοις ὀργαῖς, the dispositions that have grown with his growth, his natural “τρόποι”: for the subst., cp. Ant. 355“ἀστυνόμους ὀργάς” (n.): for the adj., Ph. 203（“κτύπος”) “φωτὸς σύντροφος ὡς τειρομένου του”. With ἔμπεδος supply “ἐστί”: he is not stable, constant, in respect to them (=“οὐκ ἐμμένει αὐταῖς”). ἐκτὸς ὁμιλεῖ, is conversant (with thoughts) outside of the “ξύντροφοι ὀργαί”. The only peculiarity is that from “ξυντρόφοις ὀργαῖς” we are left to supply “ἄλλαις ὀργαῖς” (suggested by ἐκτὸς) with ὁμιλεῖ. (We cannot, surely, understand “ἐκτὸς ὁμιλεῖ ξυντρόφοις ὀργαῖς”, as if it were an oxymoron, =“οὐχ ὁμιλεῖ”.) The expression is of the same stamp as that in Eur. Bacch. 331“οἴκει μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν, μὴ θύραζε τῶν νόμων”, (‘dwell with us, forsaking not the pale of our customs,’ etc.): ib. 853 “ἔξω δ᾽ ἐλαύνων τοῦ φρονεῖν”. For ὁμιλεῖ, cp. Nub. 1399 “ὡς ἡδὺ καινοῖς πράγμασιν καὶ δεξιοῖς ὁμιλεῖν”.
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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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