Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

Sophocles Bilingual Anthology  Studies  Sophocles in Print

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Page 64

Leader: In good time, King Odysseus, hast thou come,
If 'tis thy purpose not to embroil but reconcile.

Odysseus: What is it, friends? Far off I heard high words

From the Atreidae over this hero's corpse.

Agamemnon: Royal Odysseus, but now from this man
We have been listening to most shameful taunts.

Odysseus: How shameful? I could find excuse for one
Who, when reviled, retorts with bitter words.

Agamemnon: Yes, I repaid his vile deeds with reviling.

Odysseus: What has he done thee whereby thou art wronged?

Agamemnon: He says he will not leave yon corpse unhonoured

By sepulture, but will bury it in my spite.

Odysseus: May now a friend speak out the truth, yet still

As ever ply his oar in stroke with thine?

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