Ajax

Sophocles

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

  1. Bosporus, can say whether she has anywhere seen the wanderings of fierce-hearted Ajax? It is cruel that I, who have roamed with such great toil, cannot come near him with a fair course,
  2. but fail to see where the enfeebled man is.
Tecmessa
  1. Ah, me, ah, me!
Chorus
  1. Whose cry broke from that nearby grove?
Tecmessa
  1. Ah, misery!
Chorus
  1. There, I see his unfortunate young bride, who was the prize of his spear,
  2. Tecmessa, dissolved in that pitiful wailing.
Tecmessa
  1. I am lost, destroyed, razed to the ground, my friends!