Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

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Page 52

Leader: Speak no more, but take counsel how to inter
Our dear lord, and what now it were best to say:
For 'tis a foe I see. Perchance he comes
To mock our misery, villain that he is.

Teucer: What chieftain of the host do you behold?

Leader: Menelaus, for whose sake we voyaged hither.

Teucer: 'Tis he. I know him well, now he is near. (Menelaus enters
with his retinue.)

Menelaus: You, Sir, I warn you, raise not yonder corpse
For burial, but leave it as it lies.

Teucer: For what cause do you waste such swelling words?

Menelaus: 'Tis my will, and his will who rules the host.

Teucer: Let us know then what pretext you allege.

Menelaus: We hoped that we had brought this man from home
To be a friend and champion for the Greeks:
But a worse than Phrygian foe on trial we found him.

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