Ajax, the Greek hero, son of Telamon: Lucr. 1394. Lucr. 1394 LLL IV, 3, 7 “(as mad as A.). Aeacides was A.” Shr. III, 1, 53. “like A. Telamonius, on sheep or oxen could I spend my fury,” H6B V, 1, 26. “the Greeks upon advice did bury A. that slew himself,” Tit. I, 379. A. is their fool (i. e. a fool to them) Lr. II, 2, 132. “the seven-fold shield of A.” Ant. IV, 14, 38. Cymb. IV, 2, 252. Troil. I, 2, 14 (and passim). A quibble with a jakes: your lion, that holds his pollaxe “sitting on a close-stool, will be given to A.” LLL V, 2, 581; and perhaps Troil. II, 1, 70.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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