Notes on Greek tragedy, II

So Pearson. The strange series of hypodochmiacs here and at O.T. 1207 ff. (cf. E. Or. 982–4), with brevis in longo without pause at Aj. 421 and O.T. 1208 (possibly also 1217), seems metrically self-contained, despite their syntactical interdependence (esp. Aj. 421–2 οὐκέτ' ἄνδρα μὴ | τόνδ' ἴδητ', so that the word-overlap of οἷον into iambics in Pearson's text is unlikely. ἑξερῶ μέγα should therefore be written plena scriptura. Then οἷον οὔτιν' ἁ Τροί|α στρατοῦ… is possible, but the ithyphallic with word-overlap, sometimes found in the syncopated iambics of Aeschylus, is foreign to Sophocles. Divide ἐξερῶ μέγα, | οἷον οὔτινα | Τροία… Then ϕίλοι τοῖσδ' ὁμοῦ = οἷον οὔτινα, i.e. δ = hyp., which is not certainly found, and the antistrophe has two syllables extra.