Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- Yes, a man hostile to me in the past, and especially now.
- And is not the sweetest mockery the mockery of enemies?
- I am content that he stay within his tent.
- Do you fear to see a madman right before your eyes?
- I would not shrink from him in fear, if he were sane.
- But he will not see you now, even though you stand nearby.
- How could that be, if he still sees with the same eyes?
- I shall darken them, though their sight is keen.