Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

Sophocles Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Sophocles in Print

69 Pages

Page 56

Menelaus: What, I rebel against the laws of heaven?

Teucer:
Yes, if you come to rob the dead of burial.

Menelaus: My own foes! How could I endure such wrong?

Teucer: Did Ajax ever confront you as your foe?

Menelaus: He loathed me, and I him, as well you know.

Teucer: Because to defraud him you intrigued for votes.

Menelaus: It was the judges cast him, and not I.

Teucer: Much secret villainy you could make seem fair.

Menelaus: That saying will bring someone into trouble.

Teucer: Not greater trouble than we mean to inflict.

Menelaus: My one last word: this man must not have burial.

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