Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- You will make us appear to be cowards today.
- On the contrary, we will be men of justice in the eyes of all the Greeks.
- Then do you truly urge me to allow the burying of the dead?
- Yes, for I too shall come to that necessity.
- How true it is that in all things alike each man works for himself!
- And for whom should I work more than for myself?
- It must be called your doing then, not mine.
- However you do it, in all respects you will at least prove beneficent.