ἀμενηνὸν, enfeebled in mind by the “νόσος”, distempered. Cp. Il. 5. 887“ἤ κε ζὼς ἀμενηνὸς ἔα χαλκοῖο τυπῇσιν” (‘feeble’),—the only instance of the word in the Iliad. In the phrases “ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα” ( Od. 10. 521, etc.), “ἀμενηνῶν.. ὀνείρων” (ib. 19. 562), the notion is ‘unsubstantial.’ “ἀμενηνός” is probably formed from “μένος”. (Wecklein suggests that Sophocles here meant by it ‘unstable,’ ‘restless,’ as if it came from “μένω”.)— ὅπου: sc. “ἐστί”: cp. 33.
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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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