Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

Sophocles Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Sophocles in Print

69 Pages

Page 21

Ajax: (chanting) Thou all-spying knave, of all deeds of shame

The prompt, easy tool, Odysseus the wise!
Villain, of all the camp the most foul and vile!
Huge laughter doubtless shakes thee now for sheer delight.

Leader: As God appoints, so every man laughs or laments.

Ajax: (chanting) Would I might meet him, crushed and broken though
I be.
Alas! Woe, woe!

Leader: Speak no proud words. Seest thou not to what woe thou art
sunk?

Ajax: (chanting) O Zeus, of my fathers the sire,
Might I but kill that hateful and crafty dissembler,
Yea, and those two brother kings, partners in pride,
Then last myself too perish!

Tecmessa: If thus thou prayest, pray therewith for me, that
Die with thee. Why, when thou art dead, should I live on?

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