Elegi
fr. eleg. 1 Heph. Ench. 1. 5 (p. 3s. Consbruch)
ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἔπεσι σπανιώτερον, οὕτως ὥστε τὸ τοῦ Ἀρχελάου ὄνομα Σοφοκλῆς ἐν ταῖς ἐλεγείαις οὐκ ᾤετο ἐγχωρεῖν οὔτε εἰς ἔπος οὔτε εἰς ἐλεγεῖον. φησὶ γοῦν·
cf. Eust. in p. 264. 20 (i 402 van der Valk)Ἀρχέλεως· ἦν γὰρ σύμμετρον ὧδε λέγειν.
fr. eleg. 2 Harp. (i 60s. Dindorf)
‘ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσι’· Δημοσθένης προοιμίοις δημηγορικοῖς (48. 2). Σοφοκλῆς μὲν οὖν ἐν ταῖς ἐλεγείαις Σόλωνός φησιν αὐτὸ εἶναι ἀπόφθεγμα, Θεόφραστος δὲ ἐν τῷ <περὶ> παροιμιῶν καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης (Eth. Nic. 5. 1. 1130a) Βίαντος.
Σοφοκλῆς <Ἀντιγόνῃ . . .> Leutsch, Corp. Paroem. Gr. i 212
fr. eleg. 3 Erotian. lex Hippocr. X 2 (p.93 Nachmanson)
χάριτες· αἱ χαραί, ὡς καὶ Σοφοκλῆς ἐν ἐλεγείᾳ μέμνηται.
Elegiacs
fr. eleg. 1 Hephaestion, Handbook on Metres
Internal correption is less common in dactylic hexameters; indeed Sophocles in his elegiacs thought that the name Archelaus fitted neither hexameter nor pentameter1; at any rate he says
Archeleōs—for this form fitted the metre.
fr. eleg. 2 Harpocration, Lexicon of the Ten Attic Orators
‘Office shows the man’: quoted by Demosthenes in his Exordia to Public Speeches. Sophocles in his elegiacs1 makes it a saying of Solon, but Theophrastus On Proverbs and Aristotle make it a saying of Bias.
fr. eleg. 3 Erotianus, Glossary to Hippocrates
χάριτες (‘graces’) can be used to mean
joys;
so Sophocles in a poem in elegiacs.
- 1I.e. he would not allow the α to count as short before the -ος.
- 1With Leutsch’s emendation, ‘Sophocles in his Antigone refers to it; X in his elegiacs . . .’; see Antig. 175 ff.