Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- Until he be bound to a pillar beneath my roof—
- What evil, then, will you inflict on the poor man?
- —and have his back crimsoned by the lash, before he dies.
- Do not abuse the poor man so cruelly!
- In all else, Athena, I bid you take your pleasure, but he will pay this penalty and no other.
- Well, then, since it delights you to do so, put your arm to use; spare no portion of your plan.
- I go to my work. And I give you this commission: be always for me the close-standing ally that you have been for me today!
- Do you see, Odysseus, how great is the strength of the gods? Whom could you have found more prudent than this man,