πικροὺς, to our cost: El. 470“πικρὰν ι δοκῶ με πεῖραν τήνδε τολμήσειν ἔτι” (n.). ἔοιγμεν, for “ἐοίκαμεν”, occurs also in Eur. Heracl. 681, Eur. Cycl. 99. Eur. Itis not found in the Homeric poems, but may be compared with “ἐπέπιθμεν” ( Il. 2. 341), “εἰλήλουθμεν” ( Il. 9. 49), and “ἄνωγμεν” (Hom. hymn. Apoll. Pyth. 350). ὅπλων ἀγῶνας: the objective gen. here denotes the prize: cp. 936 “ὅπλων ἔκειτ᾽ ἀγὼν πέρι.— κηρῦξαι”, instead of the usual “θεῖναι”: cp. El. 690“ὅσων γὰρ εἰσεκήρυξαν βραβῆς κ.τ.λ. ” τότε: 650 n.
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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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