Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- and those of the future, it is your hand that steers me.
- I know it, Odysseus, and some time ago I came on the path as a lookout friendly to your hunt.
- And so, dear mistress, do I toil to good effect?
- Know that that man is the doer of these deeds.
- Then to what end did he thrust his hand so senselessly?
- He was mad with anger over the arms of Achilles.
- Why, then, his onslaught upon the flocks?
- It was in your blood, he thought, that he was staining his hand.