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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg003.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l n="983a">Ah, misery—what about the man’s child? Where in all of <placeName key="perseus,Troy">Troy</placeName> can I find him?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="985">He is alone near the tent.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Teucer</speaker><stage>To Tecmessa.</stage><l n="985a">Then bring him here right away, so that we may prevent some enemy from snatching him away, as a hunter snatches a cub from a lioness and leaves her barren!   Go quickly; give me your help!  It is the habit of men everywhere to laugh in triumph over the dead when they are mere corpses on the ground.</l><stage>Exit Tecmessa.</stage></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="990">Yes, while still alive, Teucer, Ajax ordered you to care for the child, just as you are in fact doing.</l></sp><milestone unit="card" n="992"/><sp><speaker>Teucer</speaker><l n="992">This sight is truly most painful to me of all that my eyes have seen.</l><l n="995">And the journey truly loathsome to my heart above all other journeys is this one that I have just now made while pursuing and scouting out your footsteps, dearest Ajax, once I learned of your fate!  For a swift rumor about you, as if sent from some god, passed throughout all the Greek army, telling that you were dead and gone.</l><l n="1000">I heard the rumor while still far away from you, and I groaned quietly in sadness.  But now that I see its truth, my heart is utterly shattered!  Oh, god!
<milestone unit="para" resp="ed"/>Come, uncover him;  let me see the worst.<stage>The corpse of Ajax is uncovered.</stage>
               
<milestone unit="para" resp="ed"/>O face painful to look upon and full of cruel boldness,</l><l n="1005">what a full crop of sorrows you have sown for me in your death!  Where can I go?  What people will receive me, when I have failed to help you in your troubles?  No doubt Telamon, your father and mine, will likely greet me with a smile and kind words,</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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