Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- I do, since it is no lowly skill that I possess.
- How you would boast, if you had a shield!
- Even without a shield I would be a match for you fully armed.
- What a tongue you have! What dreadful anger it feeds!
- When right is with him, a man’s thoughts may be grand.
- What, is it right that the man who murdered me should prosper?
- Murdered you? It is truly a strange happening, if in fact you live after being killed.
- A god rescued me. So far as that corpse is concerned, I am in Hades.