Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- Then since it was the gods who saved you, do not dishonor the gods.
- What, would I find fault with divine law?
- Yes, if by your presence here you prevent burial of the dead.
- Prevent it I do, since he was at war with me and I with him. Burial in such a case would not be right.
- What do you mean? Did Ajax ever stand forth publicly to war with you?
- He hated me as I hated him, and you knew it, too.
- Yes, he hated you because you had been caught fixing the votes in order to rob him.
- At the hands of the jurymen, not mine, he suffered that loss.