Sophocles' AJAX Complete

Translated by R. Trevelyan.

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Page 67

Odysseus: I am not wont to praise a stubborn soul.

Agamemnon: Cowards you would have us show ourselves this day.

Odysseus: Not so, but just men before all the Greeks.

Agamemnon: You bid me then permit these funeral rites?

Odysseus: Even so: for I myself shall come to this.

Agamemnon: Alike in all things each works for himself.

Odysseus: And for whom should I work, if not myself?

Agamemnon: Let it be known then as your doing, not mine.

Odysseus: So be it. At least you will have acted nobly.

Agamemnon: Nay, but of this be certain, that to thee
Willingly would I grant a greater boon.
Yet he, in that world as in this, shall be
Most hateful to me. But act as you deem fit. (Agamemnon and his retinue
go out.)

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