Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

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Page 45

Tecmessa: I am lost, destroyed, made desolate, my friends.

Leader: What is it? Speak.

Tecmessa: Ajax, our master, newly slaughtered lies
Yonder, a hidden sword sheathed in his body.

Chorus: (chanting) Woe for my lost hopes of home!
Woe's me, thou hast slain me, my king,
Me thy shipmate, hapless man!
Woful-souled woman too!

Tecmessa: Since thus it is with him, 'tis mine to wail.

Leader: By whose hand has he wrought this luckless deed?

Tecmessa: By his own hand, 'tis evident. This sword
Whereon he fell, planted in earth, convicts him.

Chorus: (chanting) Woe for my blind folly! Lone in thy blood thou
liest, from friends' help afar.
And I the wholly witless, the all unwary,
Forbore to watch thee. Where, where
Lieth the fatally named, intractable Ajax?

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