Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

Sophocles Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Sophocles in Print

69 Pages

Page 55

Leader: Such speech I like not, either, in peril's midst:

For harsh words rankle, be they ne'er so just.

Menelaus: This bowman, it seems, has pride enough to spare.

Teucer: Yes, 'tis no mean craft I have made my own.

Menelaus: How big would be your boasts, had you a shield!

Teucer: Shieldless, I would outmatch you panoplied.

Menelaus: How terrible a courage dwells within your tongue!

Teucer: He may be bold of heart whose side right favours.

Menelaus: Is it right that my assassin should be honoured?

Teucer: Assassin? How strange, if, though slain, you live!

Menelaus: Heaven saved me: I was slain in his intent.

Teucer: Do not dishonour then the gods who saved you.

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