Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- Yes, for fear that somehow the poor child would get in your way, and die.
- Yes, that would have been truly worthy of my destiny.
- Well, at least I took care to avert that disaster.
- I approve of your action and of your foresight.
- How, then, can I serve you, as things stand now?
- Let me speak to him and see him face to face.
- Oh, yes—he is close by, watched by our servants.
- Then why is his presence delayed?