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ἀκμαἶ ἂν … μόλοι seems the best correction of ἀκμαῖος … μόλοι. The phrase “ἀκμαῖα μολεῖν” is quite permissible in poetry: see the examples quoted on 196 f., and add Soph. Ph. 310“μόλις φανεὶς ι ἄελπτα κἀδόκητα ματρὸς ὠλέναις.”

ἀκμαῖος, εἰ βαίη, μόλοι is impossible: “μόλοι” could not stand here for “μόλοι ἄν”: see on Ant. 605（“κατάσχοι”).


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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