Ajax
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 7: The Ajax. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1891.
- It is true: all is possible when a god contrives.
- Stand silent, then, and stay where you are.
- I must stay. But I would prefer to be far from here!
- You there, Ajax, once again I call you! Why do you show so little regard for your ally?
- Welcome, Athena! Welcome, daughter sprung from Zeus! How well have you stood by me! I will crown you with trophies of pure gold in gratitude for this quarry!
- A fine pledge. But tell me this—have you dyed your sword well in the Greek army?
- I can make that boast. I do not deny it.
- And have you launched your armed hand against the Atreidae?