ζῶσαν … θανοῦσαν. The constr., “φθιμένῃ μέγα ἐστίν, ἀκοῦσαι ζῶσαν σύγκληρα λαχεῖν” (instead of “ζώσῃ”), is not rare: cp. Xen. An. 1. 2§ 1 “Ξενίᾳ τῷ Ἀρκάδι ἥκειν παραγγέλλει λαβόντα τοὺς ἄνδρας” [though shortly before, “παραγγέλλει τῷ Κλεάρχῳ λαβόντι ἥκειν”]: ib. 3. 1. 5 “συμβουλεύει τῷ Ξενοφῶντι ἐλθόντα εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀνακοινῶσαι”: ib. 3. 2. 1 “ἔδοξεν αὐτοῖς προφυλακὰς καταστήσαντας συγκαλεῖν τοὺς στρατιώτας”. The dat. with the inf. is, in such cases, equally right, but the acc. sometimes excludes an ambiguity. (Cp. on O. T. 913.) El. 479 “ὕπεστί μοι...κλύουσαν” is not similar.—I can see no reason to suppose the loss of a verse. The fact that six anapaestic verses (817—822) follow the strophe proves nothing. Cp. on 110 f., and Append. on 155 ff.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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