Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

Sophocles Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Sophocles in Print

69 Pages

Page 19

Leader: He seems in his right mind. But open the doors.
Perhaps even the sight of me may sober him. (She opens the doors
of the tent. Ajax is revealed sitting among the slain beasts.)

Tecmessa: See, I have opened. You may now behold
What he has done, and in what plight he lies.

Ajax: (chanting) Alas!
My shipmates and friends, you that alone to me
Loyal and true remain, of all friends alone,
Behold how great a billow lately rising from the storm of blood
Surging around engulphs me!

Leader: Ah me, too true, it seems, was thy report.
This sight reveals the work of no sane mind.

Ajax: (chanting) Alas!
My mates, skilled and tried in brave seamanship,
Ye who embarking drove the wave-cleaving oar,
In you, in you alone I see a help and refuge from despair.

Smite me, and spill my blood too.

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