Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

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Page 39

Leader: (calling) Woful Tecmessa, woman born to sorrow,
Come forth and hear this man who tells of a peril
That grazes us too close for our mind's ease. (Tecmessa enters from
the tent.)

Tecmessa: Why alas do you break my rest again
After brief respite from relentless woes?

Leader: Give hearing to this messenger, who brings
Tidings that grieve me of how Ajax fares.

Tecmessa: Ah me, what sayest thou, man? Are we undone?

Messenger: I know not of thy fortune; but for Ajax,
If he be gone abroad, my mind misgives.

Tecmessa: Yes, he is gone. I am racked to know thy meaning.

Messenger: Teucer commands you to keep him within doors,

And not to let him leave his tent alone.

Tecmessa: And where is Teucer, and why speaks he thus?

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