Ajax

Sophocles

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

  1. We made it, we shipmates of your voyage.
Semichorus 1
  1. What news, then?
Semichorus 2
  1. All the westward flank of the ships has been scoured for tracks.
Semichorus 1
  1. And did you find anything?
Semichorus 2
  1. Only an abundance of toil. There was nothing more to see.
Semichorus 1
  1. Neither, as a matter of fact, has the man been seen along the path that faces the shafts of the morning sun.
Chorus
  1. Who, then, can guide me? What toiling
  2. fisherman, busy about his sleepless hunt, what nymph of the Olympian heights or of the streams that flow toward