Ajax

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.

  1. Oh! Ah, me! Ah, me!
Tecmessa
  1. Soon there will be more sorrow, it seems. Did you not hear
  2. Ajax, did you not hear his resounding howl?
Ajax
  1. Oh! Ah, me! Ah, me!
Chorus
  1. The man seems to be sick, or else to be still pained by the disease which was recently with him, since he sees its traces.
Ajax
  1. Oh my son, my son!
Tecmessa
  1. Ah, miserable me! Eurysaces, it is for you he calls! What can his purpose be? Where are you? I am miserable!
Ajax
  1. Teucer! Where is Teucer? Will his raid last for ever? While I perish?