Updating it is not without its dangers, though. And of course, as we’ve said before, LSJ’s language is sometimes oldfashioned. LSJ does tend to be a bit heavy on tragedy. LSJ’s αραιος entry could be slimmed down without much harm. Seneca2008, You make perfectly valid points. But of course it would be a mammoth undertaking, and it’s understandable that the new dictionary so very slavishly follows LSJ. A radically differently organized dictionary would have been welcome. Years ago there was a article by Michael Silk (I forget where) which made a more penetrating critique of LSJ’s lexicographical principles and practice. Incidentally, Lloyd-Jones' Loeb reflects my reading: "And now for the future I proclaim to Teucer that I am as much a friend as I was then an enemy." This can only refer to Odysseus' relationship to Ajax, so Τεύκρῳ must go with ἀγγέλλομαι, not φίλος.Įdit: This was written independently of mwh below.Īs Chadwick’s multitudinous (if often carping) criticisms of LSJ effectively suggest, LSJ could be organized on lexicographically different lines. It's possible that 1376 could be read to mean that Odysseus is now friendly to both Ajax and Teucer, but not to Teucer alone-the emphasis is clearly on Odysseus' transformed relationship, formerly hostile, now friendly, to Ajax. So I think that LSJ is correct, and Brill (along with Jebb) is wrong.
The whole play turns on the previous hostility between Ajax and Odysseus, and Odysseus' magnanimous change of heart after Ajax's death and Teucer's role is secondary to this-as Ajax' half-brother, his role is to represent Ajax after the latter's death. They're talking about Odysseus' relationship to Ajax, not to Teucer himself. Loosely: "You of all the Argives were the most hostile to this man, yet you alone stood by him with physical support, and when he was dead and you stood by him alive, you did not stoop to dishonor him.
Pace Jebb, Odysseus is saying not that he is a friend to Teucer, but a friend to Ajax, ὅσον τότ᾽ ἐχθρὸς ἦ - to the same extent that he was previously hostile to him, i.e., Ajax.
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