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Ajax
Ah, you who spy out all things, [380] you ready tool of every crime, ah, son of Laertes, you filthiest sneak in all the army, I am sure you laugh loud and long for joy! Chorus
It is at the god's dispensation that every man both laughs and mourns. Ajax
Yet if only I could see him, even shattered as I am! [385] Oh! Oh! Chorus
Make no big threats! Do you not see the trouble you are in? Ajax
O Zeus, forefather of my forebears, if only I might destroy that deep dissembler, that hateful sneak, and [390] the two brother-kings, and finally die myself, also!
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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