[Meaning him] having become vehemently insane [sc. and] being insane;[1] for foi=tos ['wandering' (n.)] is insanity.[2] Either [sc. because he was] going around among the flocks on account of insanity, or [because he was] turning this way and that in his insanity.
*foitw=nta: meq' o(rmh=s memhno/ta maino/menon: foi=tos ga\r h( mani/a. h)\ perierxo/menon e)n tai=s poi/mnais, dia\ th\n mani/an: h)\ a)nastrefo/menon e)n th=| mani/a|.
From the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Ajax 59, where the headword participle (present active, accusative singular masculine) is applied to the title character; cf.
Hesychius phi725.
[1] This redundant collocation of participles of the verb
mai/nomai probably results from the hasty or uncomprehending collation of different sources. Other
scholia and commentators choose one or the other (contrast, e.g.,
Hesychius phi275 with the
scholia to
Sophocles, where individual
scholia have one or the other but not both). Since perfect forms of
mai/nomai (like
memhno/ta) regularly play a stative role (as in
Hesychius, for instance), there is probably no intent to specify that the headword denotes a process from 'having become insane' to 'being insane'.
[2] See also
phi 808.
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