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The Chorus reenters in two bands.
First Semichorus
Toil follows toil yielding toil! Where, where have I not trudged? And still no place can say that I have shared its secret. [870] Listen! A sudden thud!
Second Semichorus
We made it, we shipmates of your voyage.
Semichorus 1
[875] What news, then?
Semichorus 2
All the westward flank of the ships has been scoured for tracks.
Semichorus 1
And did you find anything?
Semichorus 2
Only an abundance of toil. There was nothing more to see.
Semichorus 1
Neither, as a matter of fact, has the man been seen along the path that faces the shafts of the morning sun.
Sophocles. The Ajax of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.
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