5671 lines
242 KiB
HTML
5671 lines
242 KiB
HTML
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<title>Ajax</title>
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nav + section,
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section + nav,
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section + section,
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section + article,
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article + section,
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padding: 0;
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}
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body > header{
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and will just drop this entire query together if it's included. */
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<h1 epub:type="title">Ajax</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">Sophocles</b>.</p>
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<p>Translated by <b epub:type="z3998:translator z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Argument</h2>
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<p>The arms of Achilles, claimed by Ajax as the bravest warrior in the host, were through intrigue given to Odysseus, and Ajax vows vengeance both on the winner and on the awarders of the prize. But Athena, his patron goddess, whom his arrogance has estranged, sends him a delusion so that he mistakes for his foes the sheep and cattle of the Greeks. Athena, when the play opens, is discovered conversing with Odysseus outside the tent of Ajax; she will show him his mad foe mauling the beasts within. The mad fit passes and Ajax bewails his insensate folly and declares that death alone can wipe out the shame. His wife Tecmessa and the Chorus try to dissuade him, but he will not be comforted and calls for his son Eurysaces. The child is brought, and after leaving his last injunctions for his brother Teucer, Ajax takes a tender farewell. He then fetches his sword from the tent and goes forth declaring that he will purge himself of his stains and bury his sword. Presently a Messenger from the camp announces that Teucer has returned from his foray and has learnt from Calchas, the seer, that if only Ajax can be kept within the camp for that day all may yet be well. The Chorus and Tecmessa set forth in quest of Ajax, and Tecmessa discovers him lying transfixed by his sword. Teucer finds the mourners gathered round the corpse and is preparing to bury him, when Menelaus hurries up to forbid the burial. After an angry wrangle with Teucer, Menelaus departs, but is succeeded by Agamemnon, who enforces his brother’s veto and is hardly persuaded by Odysseus to relent. Ajax is carried by his Salaminians to his grave, a grave (so they prophesy) that shall be famous for all time.</p>
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<p>Messenger, one of Ajax’s men</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<p>Chorus, mariners of Salamis</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<p>Scene: The shore on the Northern coast of the Troad before the tent of Ajax. Time: Early morning.</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="halftitlepage" epub:type="halftitlepage frontmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="fulltitle">Ajax</h2>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="ajax" epub:type="z3998:drama z3998:scene bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<table>
|
||
<tbody>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>, scanning recent footprints in the sand; <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</b>, invisible to <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>, is seen by the spectators above the stage in the air.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Laertes, ever on the prowl</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To seize some coign of vantage ’gainst thy foes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now at the tent of Ajax by the ships,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where he is posted on the flank, I see thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Following the trail and scanning his fresh tracks,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To learn if Ajax be within or no.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bravely thy long search brings thee to the goal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a keen-scented hound of Spartan breed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The man has even now returned, his brow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bedewed with sweat and hands besmeared with gore.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No further need to peer within these doors;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Say rather what the purpose of thy search</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus keenly urged, and learn from one who knows.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Voice of Athena, Goddess most by me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beloved, how clearly, though I see thee not,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Those accents strike my ear and thrill my soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like some Tyrrhenian trumpet, brazen-mouthed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, thou hast well divined why thus I cast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About in hot pursuance of a foe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ajax, the bearer of the sevenfold shield:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him and none other I have tracked full long.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Last night a monstrous thing he wrought on us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If it be he in sooth—’tis all surmise.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So for the hard task of discovery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I volunteered. This very morn we found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our herds, the spoil of war, all hacked and hewn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slain with their herdsmen by some human hand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On him with one consent all lay the guilt:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And by a scout who marked him o’er the plain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In mad career, alone, with reeking sword,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I duly was informed, and instantly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I sped upon the spoor, and now the tracks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I recognise, and now am all at fault,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without a clue to tell me whose they are.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Most welcome then thy advent; thine the hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That ever guided and shall guide my path.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know, Odysseus, and set forth betimes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To meet thee and abet thee in this chase.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Tell me, dear mistress, will my quest succeed?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Know that the guilty man is he thou seek’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What moved him to this rash, insensate deed?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Resentment touching dead Achilles’ arms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why did he fall upon the innocent sheep?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He thought his hands were gory with <em>your</em> blood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, was this onslaught planned against the Greeks?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Aye, and it had succeeded, but for me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How could he venture such fool-hardiness?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He schemed a night attack, by stealth, alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And did he reach us and arrive his goal?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>At the tent door of the two chiefs he stood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What then arrested him athirst for blood?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I, by the strong delusion that I sent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A vision of the havoc he should make.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I turned his wrath aside upon the flocks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the promiscuous cattle in the charge</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of drovers, booty not apportioned yet.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On them he fell and hewing right and left</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dealt death among the hornèd herd; and now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It was the two Atridae whom he slew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now a third, and now some other chief.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas I that goaded him while thus distraught,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thrust him deeper in the coils of fate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then pausing in this toil he turned to bind</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The oxen left alive with all the sheep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And drave them home, as if his spoil were men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And not poor innocent beasts with hoofs and horns,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now is mangling them fast bound within,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou too this raving madness shalt behold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou mayst bruit the sight to all the Greeks.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be of good heart and stand thy ground; no harm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall come from him, for I will turn aside</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His vision, lest he should behold thy face.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b> within the tent.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ho, thou that bind’st with cords behind their backs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy captives’ hands, ho Ajax, hear’st thou not?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I summon thee to come before the tent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What dost thou, Goddess? Nowise call him forth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Bridle thy tongue; earn not a coward’s name.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, nay; suffice it that he bide within.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What fear’st thou? Is he not, as erst, a man?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, and to me sworn foeman, and is still.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What mockery sweeter than to mock at foes?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Enough for me that he abide within.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, fear to see a madman face to face?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I had not quailed to face him, were he sane.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Insane, he shall not see thee now, though near.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If he has eyes as erst, how can that be?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will obscure his vision, howe’er clear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, when a god works, all is possible.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Peace! stand thy ground and budge not from the spot.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So will I—yet had liefer been far hence.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ho, Ajax! once again I summon thee.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Say, why this scant regard for thine ally?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hail O Athena, Zeus-born maiden, hail!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine aid how opportune! for this I’ll crown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy shrine with votive spoils of purest gold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fair words; but tell me, hast thou well imbrued</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy sword with carnage of the Argive host?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A glorious deed that I will not disclaim.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Haply thou has assailed the Atridae too?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So that they ne’er will outrage Ajax more.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If I interpret rightly, they are dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Both dead; now let them cheat me of my arms!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good; and how fares it with Laertes’ son?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How hast thou left him? or has he escaped?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He! That sly fox—wouldst know what’s come of him?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of him—Odysseus, thy antagonist.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A welcome guest he sits within, fast bound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have no mind that he should die as yet.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What would’st thou first? what further profit win?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’ll bind him to a pillar of my tent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What vengeance wilt thou wreak on the poor wretch?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Flay with my scourge his back before he die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O torture not the wretch so savagely.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In all but this, Athena, have thy will;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This and none else, must be his punishment.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, since it is thy pleasure, be it so:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lay on, abate no jot of thine intent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will to work then, and I look to thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To be my true ally all times, as now. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Odysseus, see how great the might of gods.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Couldst thou have found a man more circumspect,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or one more prompt for all emergencies?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know none such, and though he be my foe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I still must pity him in his distress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bound, hand and foot, to fatal destiny;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And therein mind my case no less than his.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! we living mortals, what are we</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But phantoms all or unsubstantial shades?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Warned by these sights, Odysseus, see that thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Utter no boastful word against the gods,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor swell with pride if haply might of arm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exalt thee o’er thy fellows, or vast wealth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A day can prostrate and a day upraise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All that is mortal; but the gods approve</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sobriety and frowardness abhor. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Athena</b> and <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>. Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Son of Telamon, thou whose isle,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Sea-girt Salamis, doth smile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O’er the surge, thy joys I share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">When thy fortunes promise fair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But if stroke of Zeus assail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or the slanderous tongues prevail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of the Danaï, to blast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thy repute, I cower aghast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Like a dove with quivering eye.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">For of yesternight there fly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Bitter plaints and loud-voiced blame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Crowding on us to our shame—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">How thou speddest o’er the meads</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Rich in troops of unbacked steeds,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And with flashing sword didst slay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">All the yet unparted prey</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of the Greeks, in foray ta’en,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Spoiling all their hard earned gain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Such the scandal, as we hear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Odysseus breathes in every ear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And he wins belief, for now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thou dost seem thy guilt to avow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And the rumour spreads and swells.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Even more than he who tells,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Every hearer takes delight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In thy woes, for envious spite.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So it falls; the noblest heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Is a target for each dart;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Aimed at me such shafts would fail:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Envy doth the great assail.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Yet without the great the small</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ill could guard the city wall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Leagued together small and great</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Best defend the common state.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Fools this precept will not heed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And these men are fools indeed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Who against thee rail; and we</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Can do nothing without thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To confound their charge, O King.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Like to birds they flap the wing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And chatter, when they ’scape thine eye;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But if hovering in the sky</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The great vulture should appear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Mute they cower in sudden fear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Was it the Tauric Artemis, Jove’s daughter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">(O dread report, begetter of my shame!)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drave thee the flocks, our common stock, to slaughter?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Didst thou in victory rob her of her claim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">To tithe of spoil, her part,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">When to thy bow there fell some noble hart?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or did the mail-clad God of War resent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thy negligence thank-offering to pay?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By him at night was the delusion sent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">That led astray?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ne’er wouldst thou, Ajax, of thine own intent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Have wrought this havoc and the cattle slain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such frenzy comes from Heaven in punishment.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">(Zeus and Apollo prove the rumour vain!)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And if the great chiefs falsely charge thee, King,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Spreading foul scandal, or the accursed race</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Sisyphus,<a href="#note-1" id="noteref-1" epub:type="noteref">1</a> let not this ill fame cling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To us thy friends; no longer hide thy face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Quit, we implore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thy tent upon the shore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Rouse thee, my King, where’er thou sittest brooding;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Too long thou mak’st the stour of battle cease,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While in the camp red ruin flames to heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And, like the west wind soughing in the trees,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Unchecked the mockery goes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Of thy o’erweening foes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">My woe no respite knows!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</b> from the tent.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Crew of Ajax, men who trace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back to Erechtheus your famed race,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woe is ours who muse upon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The far-off house of Telamon;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For our lord of dreaded might</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stricken lies in desperate plight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And his soul is dark as night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What the change so grievous, say,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the morn from yesterday?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daughter of Teleutas, tell;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stalwart Ajax loves thee well,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee his spear-won bride; ’tis thine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What befalls him to divine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, how tell a tale so drear?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sad as death what thou shalt hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of great Ajax, undone quite,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smit with madness, in the night.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look within and see the floor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reeking with his victims’ gore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slain by his own hand there lies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His ungodly sacrifice.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O fatal tidings of the hot-brained chief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Intolerable, yet without relief!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What flagrant charge amid the Greek host goes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">That spread by rumour grows?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me, doom stalks amain!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And if with his dark blade the man hath slain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The herds and mounted herdsmen, sure he dies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A malefactor shamed before all eyes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me, ’twas thence I saw him come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Driving his captive cattle home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of some he gashed the throats amain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There where they stood upon the ground;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And some were ripped and rent in twain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then two white-footed rams he found;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of one, beheaded first, the tongue</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He snipped, then far the carcase flung.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The other to a pillar lashed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Erect, with doubled rein, he thrashed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as he plied the whistling thong</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He uttered imprecations strong,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dread words a god, no man, had taught.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis time to veil the head and steal away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On foot, or straight embarking ply the oar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And let the good ship bear us from the bay;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such bitter threats the Atridae on us pour.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Me too, if I be by him, they will stone;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">He stands alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Fate marks him for her own.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No more; for like the southern blast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When lightnings flash, his rage is past.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But, now he is himself again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reviving memory brings new pain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What keener anguish than to know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thyself sole cause of self-wrought woe?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, if he have surcease, good hope is mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All may be well, for men are less concerned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With evil doing when the trouble’s past.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come tell me, which wouldst choose, if choice were free,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To vex thy friends while thou thyself wert glad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or share the pain, grieving with them that grieve?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The twofold sorrow, lady, is the worse.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then are we losers now our plague is past.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What meanest thou? it passes my poor wit.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yon man, while stricken, had himself delight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In his sick fancies, though his presence grieved</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Us who were sane; but now that he is whole,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eased of his frenzy, he is racked with grief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And we are no less troubled than before.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are there not here two ills in place of one?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis even so, and much I fear it prove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A stroke from heaven, if indeed, now cured,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He is no gladder than he was when sick.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His case is as thou sayest, rest assured.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But tell us how the plague first struck him down.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We share thy sorrow and would know it all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear then the story of our common woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At dead of night when all the lamps were out,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He took his two-edged sword, as if intent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On some wild expedition. So I chid him,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Saying, “What dost thou, Ajax, why go forth?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No summons, messenger or trumpet blast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath called thee; nay, by now the whole host sleeps.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He answered lightly with an ancient saw,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Woman, for women silence is a grace.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Admonished thus I held my tongue; but he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sped forth alone. What happened afterwards</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know not, but he came back with his spoil,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oxen and sheep-dogs with their fleecy charge.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some he beheads, of some the upturned necks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He cuts, or cleaves the chine; others again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He buffeted and mangled in their bonds,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mauling the beasts, as if they had been men.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At last he darted through the door and held</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wild converse with some phantom of the brain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now the Atridae, and Odysseus now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He mocked with peals of laughter, vaunting loud</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The vengeance he had wreaked on them. Anon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He rushed indoors again; and then in time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With painful struggles was himself again.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as he scanned the havoc all around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He smote his head and wailed and sank to earth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A wreck among the wreck of slaughtered sheep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Digging into his hair his clenchèd nails.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At first—a long, long while—he spake no word,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then against me he uttered those dire threats,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If I declared not all that had befallen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bidding me tell him in what plight he stood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I a-tremble told him what had chanced,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So far as I had knowledge. Whereat he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Broke into lamentations, piercing, shrill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such as I ne’er had heard from him before.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For ’twas his creed that wailings and lament</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are for the craven and faint-hearts; no shrill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Complaint escaped him ever; his low moan</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was like the muffled bellowing of a bull.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now, confounded in his abject woe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Refusing food or drink, he sits there still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Just where he fell amid the carcases</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the slain sheep and cattle. And ’tis plain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He meditates some mischief, so I read</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His muttered exclamations and laments.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come, friends, and help me, if so be ye can—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This was my errand—men in case like his</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are won to reason by the words of friends.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Tecmessa, daughter of Teleutas, dread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy tidings of our master thus distraught.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Worse is to come, I fear me. Heard ye not</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The voice of Ajax—that heartrending cry?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis a fresh fit, methinks, or else he groans</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At sight of all the ills his frenzy wrought.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">My son, my son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! Eurysaces, ’tis for thee he calls.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What would he? Where art thou, my son? ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ho Teucer! where is Teucer? Will his raid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>End never? And the while I am undone!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He seems himself again. Quick, ope the door.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance the sight of us his humble friends</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May bring him to a soberer mood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I open,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thou mayst view his works and his own plight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mariners, ever leal and true,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas my friends have left me, all but you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>See how disasters whelmed me like a flood,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now I welter in a surge of blood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, lady, thy report was all too true,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too clear the tokens of an unhinged brain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sailors brave, whose flashing oar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swift and sure the good ship bore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To you I look for comfort, none but you;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come slay me too.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O hush, essay not ill by ill to cure,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor aggravate the burden of thy doom.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>See’st thou the bold, stout-hearted knight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who never quailed to face the fight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now on tame beasts that fear no harm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He proves the puissance of his arm.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! the mockery, the scorn, the shame!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ajax, my dearest master, speak not so.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out with thee, woman; hence, avaunt, begone!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O listen, I adjure thee, and be ruled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wretch to let those fiends, my foes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slip, while on the flock my blows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the goodly cattle rained,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till with their dark blood all the house was stained.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why vex thyself for what is past recall?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What’s done is done and naught can alter it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Spy of the time, apt tool for any guile,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the host the sublest knave, most vile,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son of Laertes, loud and long, I trow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou laughest in malignant triumph now.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Laughter or mourning comes as God ordains.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Would I could see him, shattered though I be!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No boastful words; see’st not thy piteous case?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O Zeus, my grand sire, would that I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might slay that knave, my bane,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That arch-dissembler and the generals twain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then let me die!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When thus thou prayest, pray that I with thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May die; why should I live when thou art dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 3</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O woe is me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Darkness, my light!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O nether gloom to me more bright</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than midday, take, O take me to your care!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am too vile to share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The kindly aid of mortals, and the gods</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have left me. Nay, the Warrior Maid, Zeus-born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Laughs me to scorn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I quail beneath her rods.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whither to fly? What hope of rest is left,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If of my ancient fame bereft,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead as these slaughtered sheep around me slain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A madman’s crown I gain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While all the host at my devoted head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would strike, and smite me dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me that one so good should utter words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That hitherto he ne’er had deigned to breathe!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Paths of the roaring waves,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye salt sea caves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And pastures by the shore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where long, too long I roam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In Troy-land, far from home;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Me shall ye see no more—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No more in life. Give ear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All who can hear.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Streams of Scamander, rills</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That flow from Ida’s hills,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Streams to the Greeks so dear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ne’er shall ye look on Ajax more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A paladin whose peer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(For I will utter a proud boast)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In all the Grecian host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sailed from Hellas’ shore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Troy ne’er beheld. But now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Low in the dust, o’erthrown, his head doth bow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How to restrain or how to let thee speak</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cannot tell, beset by endless woes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ay me! Whoe’er had thought how well my name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would fit my misery? Ay me! Ay me!<a href="#note-2" id="noteref-2" epub:type="noteref">2</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, twice and thrice may I repeat the wail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That syllables my woe-begone estate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sire, a peerless warrior, home returned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back from the land of Ida, crowned with fame,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Proclaimed as champion bravest of the brave.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I, his son, in might not less than he,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sailed after him to this same land of Troy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And served the host by deeds of no less worth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for reward I perish by the Greeks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dishonoured. Yet one thing I know full well:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If to Achilles living it had fallen</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His arms as meed of valour to award,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No man had grasped the prize, preferred to me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now the Atridae, scouting my just claim,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have yielded to a miscreant’s base intrigue.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had not mine eyes been dazed, my mind distraught</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And wrested from its purpose, they had never</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Procured false sentence ’gainst a second man.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! the grim-eyed goddess, unsubdued</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daughter of Zeus—as I was at their heels,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Almost at grips with them, in act to strike—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Foiled me, abused me by a frenzy fit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Imbrued my hands with blood of these poor beasts.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thus my foes exult in their escape,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Albeit I willed it not, and mock at me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But if some god or goddess intervene,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even a knave may worst the better man.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now what’s left me? By the gods, ’tis clear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am detested, hated by the host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Greeks, abhorred by Troy and all the camp.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I sail homeward o’er the Aegean, leave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sons of Atreus to fight on alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This roadstead undefended? Then how face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My father Telamon? How will he endure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To look on me returning empty-handed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without the meed of valour that he held</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Himself, a crown of everlasting fame?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That were intolerable. Am I then</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alone to storm the Trojan battlements,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And facing single-handed a whole host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Do some high deed of prowess—and so die?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, that methinks would give the Atridae joy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It may not be; some emprise must be found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That shall convince my aged sire his son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is not degenerate from his father’s breed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Base were it that a man should want long life</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When all he gets is long unchanging trouble.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What pleasure comes of that? ’Tis but a move</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forward or backward and the end—is death!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would not count that mortal worth a doigt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who lives on, fed by visionary hopes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nobly to live—that is the true knight’s choice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or nobly end his life. I have said my say.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No man will charge thee, Ajax, with feigned words.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas thy heart spoke; yet pause and put aside</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These dark thoughts; let thyself be ruled by friends.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, my lord Ajax, heavier lot is none</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than to lie helpless in the coils of fate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I was the daughter of a high-born sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Phrygians unsurpassed in wealth and might.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, I am a slave; ’twas so ordained</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By Heaven, methinks, and by thy might of arm.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since fate has willed, then, I should share thy bed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy good is mine; and O by the god of the hearth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O by the wedded bond that made us one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let me not fall into a stranger’s hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A laughing-stock! For, surely, if thou die</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And leave me widowed, on that very day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall be seized and haled away by force,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I and thy son, prey to the Argive host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our portion slavery. Then shall I hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The flouts and gibes that my new lords let fly.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Look on her,” one will say, “the leman once</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Ajax, mightiest of the Argive chiefs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How has she fallen from her place of pride!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus will they prate, and hard will be my lot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But on thy race and thee how foul a slur.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take pity and bethink thee of the sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou leavest, an old man, disconsolate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bethink thee of thy mother bowed with years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Think of her prayers and vows for thy return.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, O my lord, take pity on thy son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Orphaned, without a father’s fostering care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The ward of loveless guardians; if thou die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What heritage of woe is his and mine!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I have naught to look to anywhere</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save thee. By thee my country was laid waste,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My mother and my father too were snatched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To dwell with Hades by another fate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What home is left me then, if thou art ta’en?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What weal? my welfare is bound up in thee.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Think of me also: gratitude is due</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From man for favours that a woman gives.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kindness return of kindness e’er begets.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who lets the memory of service pass</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him will I ne’er with noble spirits rank.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ajax, I would that thou wert moved as I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To pity; then wouldst thou approve her rede.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, and my full approval she shall win,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If only she take heart to do my hest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Aye, my dear lord, I will obey in all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Bring hither then my son, that I may see him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh, in alarm I sent him from my charge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I was stricken? Or what meanest thou?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, lest the poor child meeting thee should die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That fate indeed had matched my fortunes well.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, I averted that calamity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy forethought and the action I commend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As the case stands, how can I do thy hest?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me speak to him—see him face to face.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good; he is in our servants’ charge close by.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then wherefore is his coming thus delayed?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My child, thy father calls thee. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To the Servants.</i> Bring him hither,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whoever of you guides his infant steps.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Comes he, or has he failed to hear thy call?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I see one just approaching with the boy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Eurysaces is led forward.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lift him, O lift him to my arms; no dread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If he be mine, his father’s true-born son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He’ll feel in gazing on this fresh spilt blood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He must be early trained and broken in</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the stern rule of life his father held,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And moulded to the likeness of his sire.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My boy, mayst thou prove happier than thy sire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But like him in all else, and thou wilt prove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No weakling; nay, e’en now, in this at least</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I envy thee: of woes thou wottest naught,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For ignorance is life’s extremest bliss—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The years when joy and sorrow are both unknown.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when thou reachest manhood, then’s the time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To prove the inbred virtue of thy race,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And show thy father’s foes whose son thou art.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Meanwhile let light airs feed thee; cherish thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy tender years to glad thy mother’s heart.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou need’st not fear that any of the Greeks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will tease or vex thee, e’en when I am gone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So stout a guardian will I leave in charge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose watchful eye will slumber not, though now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A foray ’gainst his enemies keeps him hence.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye, my seamen, comrades in the fight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(On you no less than him I lay this charge</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of love) to him convey my last behest.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bid him from me take home this son of mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Eriboea and to Telamon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That he may comfort their old age till death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for my arms, let no Greek arbiter</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of games (so bid him) nor my venomous foe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Set them as prize for the Achaean host.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But this, the shield from which thou took’st thy name,<a href="#note-3" id="noteref-3" epub:type="noteref">3</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take this, my son, this sevenfold, spear-proof targe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take it and wield it by the close-stitched thongs.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My other arms shall lie with me interred.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Quick, take the child, delay not; close the doors,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor at the tent side moan and make lament.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In sooth a woman is a tearful thing.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Quick, make all fast: ’tis not a skilful leech</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who mumbles charms o’er ills that need the knife.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I tremble as I mark this eager haste:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy words are sharp as swords and like me not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O my lord Ajax, what is in thy heart?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Question not, ask not; be discreet and wise.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me, I quail, I faint. O by thy child,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By heaven I implore thee, fail us not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art importunate; know’st not that I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Henceforward owe no duty to the gods?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh hush, blaspheme not!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Speak to ears that hear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou not heed?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have heard from thee too much.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fear, my lord, makes me speak.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Quick, close the doors.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yield, I implore thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fond simplicity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If at this hour thou think’st to mould my mood. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah Salamis, blest isle,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Secure, serene,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Above the waves that lash thy shore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">As ocean’s queen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou sittest evermore.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I in exile drear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Month after month, year after year,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On Ida’s meads must bivouac, all forlorn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">By time outworn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ever nearer, ever darker loom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The night of Hades and eternal gloom.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And now to crown my grief</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Comes a new woe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My leader Ajax, mad beyond relief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">By heaven laid low;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How fallen from that impetuous chief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Who sailed to meet the foe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now, to his friends’ distress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He sits and broods in sullen loneliness;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Those doughty deeds his right hand wrought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now count for naught,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from that loveless pair, those men of sin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No love but despite win.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, when his mother, blanched with age and frail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hears of his shattered reason, what wild wail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will she upraise, a dirge of shrill despair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(No plaintive ditty of the nightingale)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With beating of the breast and rending of white hair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Better be buried with the dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who lives with brain bewilderèd.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the Greeks toil-worn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold the noblest born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now from his native temper warped and strange,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose thoughts in alien paths distracted range.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O wretched father, what a curse ’tis thine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon thy son to hear—curse that on none</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’er fell of all the Aeacidae’s great line</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Save him alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Time in its slow, illimitable course</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brings all to light and buries all again;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Strange things it brings to pass, the dreadest oath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is broken and the stubbornest will is bent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en I whose will aforetime was as iron</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Steeled in the dipping, now have lost the edge</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of resolution, by this woman’s words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unmanned, to pity melted at the thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of her a widow and my orphan son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Left amidst foemen. But I go my way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the sea baths and meadows by the beach,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I may there assoil me and assuage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wrathful goddess, having purged my sin.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then will I seek some solitary spot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And hide this sword, of weapons most accursed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deep under earth, consigned to Night and Hell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where never eye of man may see it more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For since the day I hanselled it, a gift</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From Hector, my arch-enemy, to this hour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No favour from Achaeans have I won.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So true the word familiar in men’s mouths,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A foe’s gifts are no gifts and profit not.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Henceforward I shall know to yield to Heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And school myself the Atridae to respect.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They are our rulers and obey we must;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How otherwise? Dread potencies and powers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Submit to law. Thus winter snow-bestrown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gives place to opulent summer. Night’s dim orb</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is put to flight when Dawn with her white steeds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kindles the day-beams; and the wind’s fierce breath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can lay the storm and lull the moaning deep.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en thus all-conquering sleep holds not for ever</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom he has bound, and must relax his grasp.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And we, shall we not likewise learn to yield?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I most of all; for I have learnt, though late,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This rule, to hate an enemy as one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who may become a friend, and serve a friend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As knowing that his friendship may not last.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An unsafe anchorage to most men proves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bond of friendship. As for present needs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All shall be well. Woman, go thou within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And pray the gods that all my heart’s desires</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May find their consummation to the full.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye, my comrades, see that ye respect,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No less than she, my wishes; and enjoin</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On Teucer, when he comes, to care for me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And show good will to you, my friends, withal.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I am going whither I am bound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Do ye my bidding, and perchance, though now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I suffer, ye may hear of my release. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I thrill with rapture, all my heart upsprings!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pan, Pan, O Pan, appear.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come to us o’er the sea, sea-rover, leaving</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The ridges of Cyllenè’s driven snow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come to us, hand in hand blithe dances weaving,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thou leader of the dance in heaven; show</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Nysa and of Cnosos measures rare,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For in my rapture I the dance would share.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come, and upon his footsteps swiftly follow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Winging thy way across the Icarian main,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Show thy bright presence, Delos’ own Apollo,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">God of my life, thou healer of all pain!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Grim Ares from mine eyes the cloud of sadness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Has lifted; now the radiant Dawn anew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Angel of light, and harbinger of gladness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Visits our ships that swiftly cleave the blue.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O joy, when Ajax has forgot once more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His woe, and turns the godhead to adore!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Due rites he pays with contrite heart and lowly.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O all-devouring time, what miracles</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou workest! lo, his feud forgotten wholly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ajax at peace with the Atridae dwells.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Teucer is here—that, friends, is my first news—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back from the Mysian highlands newly come.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as he neared headquarters in mid camp,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He was beset with universal shouts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of obloquy; they spied him from afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And crowding round him as he nearer came,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rained on him taunts from this side and from that,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Railed at the kinsman of the crazy wretch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Plotter of mischief ’gainst the host—“To die</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By stoning, mauled and mangled, is thy doom;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Think not to ’scape it, villain,” so they cried.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It came to such a pass that swords were drawn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And brandished; then the riot, having run</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the very verge of bloodshed, was allayed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By intervention of the elder men.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But where is Ajax? Him I fain would tell;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis meet your lords should know whate’er befell.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He is not within; but now he went abroad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yoking some new resolve to his new mood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alack, alack!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too late then on this errand was I sent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or I, a laggard, have arrived too late.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What pressing business has been slackly done?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Teucer enjoined his brother should not forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or quit his tent till he himself should come.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, he is gone, and with the best resolve</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To make his peace with heaven.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Folly sheer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If there be sense in Calchas’ prophecy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What prophecy? what knowest thou thereof?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thus much I know, for I was there. The seer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaving the council of assembled chiefs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the Atridae drew aside and laid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His right hand lovingly in Teucer’s hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And spake and charged him straitly by all means,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For this one day whose light yet shines, to keep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ajax within his tent nor let him forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If he would see him still a living man.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Only to-day,” said Calchas, “will the wrath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of dread Athena vex him, and no more.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’erweening mortals waxing fat with pride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fall in their folly, smitten by the gods</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With dire disaster” (so the prophet spake),</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Whene’er a mortal born to man’s estate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exalts himself in thoughts too high for man.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus Ajax, een when first he left his home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In folly spurned his father’s monishments—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>‘Seek victory, my son’ (so warned the sire),</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>‘But seek it ever with the help of heaven.’</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He in his wilful arrogance, replied,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>‘Father, with gods to aid, a man of naught</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might well prevail, but I without their help.’</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such was his haughty boast. A second time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Queen Athena, as she spurred him on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To turn his reeking hand upon his foes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He spake a blasphemous, outrageous word,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>‘Queen, stand beside the other Greeks; where I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am posted, fear not that our ranks will break.’</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such vaunting words drew on him the dire wrath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the goddess—pride too high for mortal man.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But if he can survive this day, perchance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With God’s good aid we may avail to save him.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So spake the seer, and Teucer straightway rose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sent me with these mandates. Have I failed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ajax is doomed, or Calchas is no seer.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ill-starred Tecmessa, born to woe, come forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And hearken to this messenger, whose words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That touch us to the quick brook no delay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why break my rest and trouble me again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Relieved awhile from woes that have no end?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>List to this man—the tidings he has brought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Ajax’ fortunes, filling me with grief.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is thy news, man? Say, are we undone?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not of thy fortunes, only this—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If Ajax is abroad, I augur ill.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas! he is. How thy words chill my soul!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Teucer’s injunction is to keep him close</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Indoors, nor let him go abroad alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And where is Teucer? Wherefore speaks he thus?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He hath returned but lately and forbodes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grave jeopardy, if Ajax goes abroad.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah woe is me! Who warned him of this peril?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The prophet, son of Thestor, but to-day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When in the scales for him hang life and death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Help, friends, protect me from the impending doom!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speed, some to hasten Teucer on his way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some to the western creeks and some to those</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That front the morn; pursue his ill-starred track.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I see too well my lord hath cheated me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Withdrawn the favour that long time was mine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! What shall I do, my child? No time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To sit with folded hands; I too will go,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So far as this weak frame allows, in search.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up, quick, to work! no moment must be lost,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If we would save a man who hastes to death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ready am I; not words alone shall prove,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But speed of act and foot, my readiness. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</b> alone on the sea-shore, planting his sword in the ground.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Ajax</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The slayer standeth where his stroke is sure—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If I have time to muse thus curiously—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gift of Hector erst my foeman-friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The man most hateful to my soul and sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now fixed in foemen’s land, the land of Troy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fresh edged upon the iron-fretting stone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here have I planted it and set it fast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A friend to help me to a speedy death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My part is done; for what remains, O Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>First I invoke thine aid; and claim my due;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis no excessive boon I shall demand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I pray thee send some messenger to bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Teucer the sad tale, that he may come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lift me where I lie a bleeding corpse,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fallen on this gory sword, lest I be first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Discovered by some enemy and cast forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A prey to dogs and birds. Thus much, O Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I crave of thee; and Hermes I invoke,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Born guide of spirits to the nether world,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lay me soft to rest at one swift gasp,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without a struggle, when into my side</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I plunge this sword. Ye too I call to aid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Maidens immortal, with immortal eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beholding all the many woes of man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swift-footed hounds of vengeance, mark ye well</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How by the Atridae I am all undone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swoop on them, Furies, blight and blast them both</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In utter ruin, as they see me now!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On, ye Avengers, glut your maw, spare not,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let ruin seize the whole Achaean host!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thou whose chariot climbs the steep of heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When in thy course thou see’st my father-land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Draw in thy gold-bedizened rein and tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My aged sire and mother of their son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His sorrows and his end. Poor mother! when</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She hears the tale, her piercing wail will ring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through all the city. But how profitless</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These idle lamentations and delay!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With such despatch as may be let’s to work.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Death, Death, Death, draw nigh and look on me—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet there below I shall have time enow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To converse face to face with Death. But thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O bright effulgence of this radiant day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On thee, the Sun-god charioteer, I call</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the last time and never more again.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O light! O sacred soil of mine own land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My Salamis! my home, my ancestral hearth!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O far-famed Athens, race akin to mine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye Trojan springs and streams, ye plains of Troy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Farewell, ye nurses of my fame, farewell!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is the last word Ajax speaks to you.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Henceforth he talks in Hades with the dead. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">He falls upon his sword.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Re-enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 1</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Toil, toil, and toil on toil!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where have my steps not roamed, and yet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No place that hath a secret for my ear.<a href="#note-4" id="noteref-4" epub:type="noteref">4</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hist! hist! what sound was that?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 2</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis we, thy mates.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 1</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What cheer, mates?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 2</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All westward of the fleet we’ve ranged and found</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 1</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Found, say you!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 2</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of moil enow, of what we sought no trace.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 1</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No better luck to the eastward; on the road</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That fronts the sunrise not a trace of him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O that some toiling fisher by the bay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Dragging his nets all night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Some Oread from Olympus’ height,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or nymph who haunts the tides of Bosporus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might spy the wanderer on his wayward way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And bring the tale to us.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hard lot is ours who tack</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To east, to west, and find no track,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ne’er in our luckless course descry</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The derelict nor come anigh.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">They hear a cry in the covert.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whose was that cry from out the covert’s fringe?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Me miserable:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My hapless mistress, Ajax’ spear-won bride,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Teemessa, whelmed in anguish I behold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m lost, undone, of all bereft, my friends.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What aileth thee?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here lies our Ajax, newly slain, impaled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon his sword, new planted in the ground.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O for my hope of return!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O my chief, thou hast slain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Me thy shipmate! my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bleeds for thee, lady forlorn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thus lies he overthrown; ’tis ours to wail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By whose hand did he thus procure his death?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By his own hand, ’tis manifest; the sword</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Set in the ground, on which he fell, is proof.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out on my blindness! All alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unwatched of friends he bled to death!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I saw naught, heard naught, recked naught of thee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where lies he, Ajax, the self-willed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The unbending, luckless as his name?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No eye shall look on him; this robe around</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall lap him and enshroud from head to foot.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For none who knew him, not his dearest friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Could bear to see him, as the dark blood spurts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up through his nostrils from the self-wrought wound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What shall I do? What friend shall lift him up?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where, where is Teucer? Timely would he come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If come he might, to raise him and lay out</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His brother’s corse. Ah me! How high thou stood’st,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My Ajax, and how low thou liest here!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A sight to melt to tears e’en foemen’s eyes!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah woeful hero, ’twas thy fate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With that unyielding soul of thine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In endless misery to decline,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And reach the goal of ruin, soon or late.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I knew it as I heard thee eve and morn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Against the Atridae vent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thy passionate complaint,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A bitter cry of proud disdain and scorn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Aye, then began my woes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">When first arose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The contest who those arms could claim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As guerdon for the first in warlike fame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The anguish, well I know it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pierces to thy true heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No marvel thou shouldst wail and wail again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bereft so lately and of one so loved.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The woe I feel thou canst in part conceive.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, my child, to what hard yoke</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of bondage must we come, so merciless</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The taskmasters set over thee and me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The Atridae, ruthless pair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And their grim deeds ineffable</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy boding soul prefigures. God avert it!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Save by God’s will we were not in this case.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They have laid on us a load too hard to bear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet such the plague wherewith the daughter dire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Zeus afflicts us for Odysseus’ sake.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, how the patient hero must exult</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In his dark soul and mock</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With fiendish laughter at our frenzied grief;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the two chiefs withal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Atridae, when they learn his fate.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, let them laugh and mock at Ajax fall’n.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It may be, though they missed him not in life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When comes the stress of war they’ll mourn him dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men of mean judgment know not the good thing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They have and hold till they have squandered it.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He by his death more sorrow gave to me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than joy to them; to himself ’twas pure content,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For all he yearned to attain he won himself—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Death that he chose. Then wherefore scoff at him?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gods were authors of his death, not they.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So let Odysseus, if it please him, vent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Vain taunts; for them there is no Ajax more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dying he has left me naught but woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woe, woe is me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hist, hist! methinks ’tis Teucer’s voice I hear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That woeful strain of mourning at our loss.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Beloved Ajax, dearest of my kin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Did fame not lie then? hast thou fared thus ill?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He hath perished, Teucer, and report spake true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then woe is me for my most grievous loss.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And since ’tis thus—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas for me, alas!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The hour for mourning—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O sharp pang of pain!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Is come, O Teucer, as thou say’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ay me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But his son—where in Troy-land bides he now?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alone beside the tent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then bring him quickly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest of our foemen one should snatch him up,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As from a lioness forlorn her cub.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go quick, bestir thyself. ’Tis the world’s way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To flout and triumph o’er the prostrate dead. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, while he yet lived Ajax left to thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Teucer, this child, to tend him, as thou dost.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O saddest sight of all I ever saw,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O bitterest of all paths I ever trod,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The path that led me hither, Ajax loved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My best-loved Ajax! when I learnt thy fate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>B’en as I tracked in desperate haste thy steps;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For a swift rumour, like a voice from heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ran through the host that thou wert dead and gone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I heard it and I moaned in spirit afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now the sight strikes death into my soul.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O woe!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come, lift the searcloth; let me see the worst.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O bleeding form, O agonising sight!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How brave, how rash, how cruel in thy death;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy death, what seed of misery for me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where can I turn, what race of men will house me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wretch who failed to help thee in thy woes?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How Telamon, thy sire and mine withal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will beam upon me (can’st not picture him?)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I return without thee! Telamon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who in his hours of fortune never smiles!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will he refrain? Will he not curse and ban</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bastard of his spear-won concubine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wretch who like a coward and poltroon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forsook thee, dearest Ajax, or conspired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hold thy realm and halls when thou wert dead?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus will he rave, the choleric, soured old man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ready to pick a quarrel for a straw.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in the end I shall be banned, defamed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rejected, branded—<em>No free man, a slave.</em></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such cheer at home awaits me, and at Troy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My foes are many and my friends to seek.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus by thy death I’ve profited! Ah me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How tear thee from this cruel glittering blade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That stands arraigned thine executioner?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>See’st thou how Hector dead and turned to dust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was fated in the end to be thy death?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look on the fortunes of the two, I pray ye:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hector, who by the very belt he wore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A gift from Ajax, lashed to the car-rail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was dragged and mangled till his ghost expired;<a href="#note-5" id="noteref-5" epub:type="noteref">5</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And this the sword whose murderous edge transfixed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The side of Ajax—this was Hector’s gift.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Say, was it not some Fury forged this blade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was not that hellish girdle wove by Death?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I hold, for my part, these and all things else</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gods contrive for mortals. But may be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some disapprove my creed; let such an one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cling to his own belief, as I to mine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Abridge thy large discourse; think how to lay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The dead man in his grave and what thy plea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall be anon; I see a foe approach.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance he comes with mocking of our grief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As miscreants use.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What captain dost thou see?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Menelaus, he at whose behest we sailed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis he, not hard to recognise thus near.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stop, sirrah, bear no hand in raising up</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The corse, I charge thee; leave it where it lies.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore dost waste thy breath in these proud words?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Such is my will and the great general’s will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>On what pretence? wilt please to tell us that?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear then. We thought to bring from Salamis</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For Greeks a friend and firm ally, but found him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On trial worse than any Phrygian foe;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who plotted death and sallied forth by night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Gainst the whole host, to slay us with the spear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And had some god not intervened to foil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This enterprise, his fate had now been ours,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To perish by an ignominious death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While he had now been living. But a god</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Turned his blind malice on the flocks and herds.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus hath he done, and no man shall prevail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By might to lay his body in the tomb.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He shall be cast forth on the yellow sands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To feed the carrion birds that haunt the beach.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rage not nor bluster as thou hear’st, for we,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en if we could not master him alive,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In any case will lord it o’er him dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rule him and discipline, in thy despite,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By force—my words he ne’er would heed, alive.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet ’tis a mark of villainy when one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the common deigns not to obey his lords.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For in a State that hath no dread of law</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The laws can never prosper and prevail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor could an armèd force be disciplined</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lacking the guard of awe and reverence.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, though a man should tower in thews and might,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A giant o’er his fellows, let him think</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some petty stroke of fate may work his ruin.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where dread prevails and reverence withal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Believe me, there is safety; but the State,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where arrogance hath licence and self-will,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though for a while she run before the gale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will in the end make shipwreck and be sunk.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dread in its proper season and degree</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must be maintained; let us not fondly dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That we can act at will to please ourselves,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor pay the price of pleasure by our pains.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis turn and turn; now this man lorded it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In insolence; ’tis now my hour of pride.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So I forewarn thee bury him not, lest thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In burying shouldst dig thyself a grave.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sage precepts these, my lord, and do not thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thyself become a scoffer of the dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Friends, I shall never marvel after this</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If any baseborn fellow gives offence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When men who pride them on their lineage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By their perverted utterance thus offend.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Repeat thy tale: thou claimest to have brought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My brother hither as a Greek ally,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Secured by thee forsooth. Sailed he not forth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As his own master, of his own free will?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who made thee lord of him? What right hast thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To rule the clansmen whom he brought from home?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou cam’st as Sparta’s king, no lord of ours.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast no more prerogative or right</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To govern him than he to govern thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou sailedst under orders, not as chief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And captain unto Ajax ne’er couldst be.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go, lord it o’er thy henchmen, chasten them</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With lordly pride; but this man, whether thou,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aye, or thy brother-general forbid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I with due rites and offices will bury</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Despite thy threatenings. ’Twas not to bring back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy wife that Ajax joined in the campaign,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like thy serf drudges, but to keep the oath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereto he had bound himself, no whit for thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of underlings like thee he took no heed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go then and bring more heralds back with thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the commander; for thy noisy rant,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whilst thou art what thou art, I care no straw.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This speech again mislikes me in the midst</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of woes; hard words, how just soever, wound.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Methinks this archer<a href="#note-6" id="noteref-6" epub:type="noteref">6</a> hath a captain’s pride.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Aye, as the master of no vulgar art.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How wouldst thou strut, promoted to a shield!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Without a shield I were a match for thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In panoply.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How valorous with thy tongue!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He can be bold who hath his quarrel just.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Justice quotha, to exalt my murderer?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Murdered, and yet thou livest! that is strange!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heaven saved me; in intention I was slain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If the gods saved thee, sin not ’gainst the gods.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I! could I e’er abuse the laws of Heaven?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, if thou com’st to stop the burial.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of mine own foes; to bury them were sin.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Was Ajax e’en thine enemy in the field?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He loathed me, as I him, thou knowest well.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Aye, thou hadst robbed him by suborning votes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Twas by the judges he was cast, not me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A fair face thou canst put on foulest frauds.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Someone I know will suffer for that word.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He who provoked is like to suffer more.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One word more; he shall not be burièd.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One word in answer; buried he shall be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Once did I see a braggart, bold of tongue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who had pressed his crew to sail in time of storm,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when the storm was on him he was mum—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lay like a dead log muffled in his cloak,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And let the sailors trample him at will.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en so with thee and thy unbridled tongue.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance a mighty hurricane may rise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sprung from a cloud no bigger than a hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swoop down on thee and quench thy blustering.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Once too I knew a fool, a silly fool,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who triumphed at his neighbour’s woes and mocked;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then it chanced that one, a man like me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In looks and character, addressed him thus:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>Man, do not evil to the dead, for if</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>Thou doest evil, thou nilt surely rue it.</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So to his face he chid that silly fool.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I see that wight before me, and methinks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“ ’Tis none but thou. Can’st read my riddle plain?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I go, for ’twould disgrace me, were it known</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I, with power to act, chastised with words.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Begone then! ’twere for me a worse disgrace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To listen to a bragster’s idle prate. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Menelaus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Soon a mortal strife will come.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Seek a hollow grave, and haste,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Teucer, with what speed thou may’st,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To prepare the mouldering tomb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Where the warrior shall lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Deathless in men’s memory.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Tecmessa</b> and Child.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo! in good time I see his child and wife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Draw near to tend the hero’s obsequies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come hither, child, and take thy place beside him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lay, in suppliant guise, thy hand in his,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And kneel as one who hath taken sanctuary,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With locks of hair as offering in thine hand—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mine, hers, and thine—all-potent means of grace.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then if by violence any of the host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should drag thee from the dead man, be his lot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To perish banned, cast forth without a grave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cut off with kith and kindred, root and branch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even as I cut this lock from off my head.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take it and keep it, child; let no man move thee.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kneel thou, and clasp in close embrace the dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye, his comrades, stand not idly by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As women mourners; quit yourselves as men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In his defence, till I have made a grave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bury him, though all the world forbid. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When shall the score be told, the sum of the endless years?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Weary am I of camps and tramps and the hurtling of spears.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hither and thither I roam o’er the windswept Trojan plain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shame and reproach for Greece, for Grecians trouble and pain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Would he had sunk to hell, or vanished in ether afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who first admonished the Greeks to league themselves for the war—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>War, the father of toils, whence mortal sorrows began;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, it was he who begat the plague and ruin of man.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Wretch! for me no garlands fine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Cups o’erbrimming with red wine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">No shrill flutes didst thou assign.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Wretch! a foe to all delight.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">F’en the slumbers soft of night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thy alarms have banished quite.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">And my loves, ah well-a-day!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thou hast driven them all away;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Here I lie on the cold clay:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">All alone, with none to care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">While the dank dews wet my hair.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Such, accursèd Troy, thy fare!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Erewhile Ajax, stalwart knight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Was my buckler in the fight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Shield against the alarm of might.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Now by Fate a victim led</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">To the altar, he hath bled;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And for me all joy hath fled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">O that from this barren strand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Wafted to Athena’s land</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">I on Sunium’s brow might stand;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Hear the waves that round it beat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Wash the wooded headland’s feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Sacred Athens thence to greet!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lo I return in haste; I saw approach</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Great Agamemnon, captain of the host;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis plain he means to vent on us his spleen.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So, Sirrah, it is thou (for thus I learn)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hast dared to rant and curse and threaten us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus far unpunished; thou the bondmaid’s son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ha! had thy mother been a high-born dame,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How grand thy speech, how proud had been thy gait,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When now, a nobody, thou championest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thing of naught, maintaining that we kings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had no commission, or on sea or land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To rule the Greeks or thee, and (such thy claim)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Ajax sailed, an independent chief.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is this not rank presumption in a slave?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And what is he whose might thou vauntest thus?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where did he hold his ground or lead the assault</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where I was not? Have Greeks no <em>man</em> but him?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas in an evil hour we made proclaim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of open contest for Achilles’ arms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If Teucer must denounce us as corrupt,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whate’er the issue, and if ye reject</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The adverse judgment of the major part,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But must for ever gird at us and rail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or plot to stab us, when ye lose your suit.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never with tempers such as yours could law</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be firmly based, if we are called to oust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rightful victors and promote the worse.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This must be stopped. ’Tis not the brawny, big,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Broad-shouldered men who prove the best at need;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wise and prudent everywhere prevail.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The broad-ribbed ox is guided on his path</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down the straight furrow by a little goad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A like corrective is in store for thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thou acquire not some small sense full soon.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The man is dead, a shadow, and yet thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let’st thy tongue wag and waxest insolent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come to a sober mind; recall thy birth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bring hither someone else, a free-born man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To plead thy cause before us in thy stead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For when thou speak’st thy words convey no sense;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I understand not a barbarian tongue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I would ye twain might learn sobriety;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis the best counsel I can give you both.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out on man’s gratitude! how soon it fades,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or proves a traitor when a friend is dead!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What memory, what tittle of regard</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath he for thee, my Ajax, thou who oft</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At peril of thy life didst toil for him?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lost labour, cast away and all forgot!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Vain, windy orator, canst not recall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The day when ye were cooped within your lines,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Scattered, half routed and as good as lost,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How single-handed he stood forth and saved you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though at your ships the poop decks were ablaze,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Hector o’er the fosse came bounding, prompt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To board them? Who averted then the rout?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very man of whom thou sayest now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“He did no deed I have not done myself.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was that no loyal service? Judge yourselves;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or once again when he in single fight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Confronted Hector, under no constraint,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But by the lot he drew—no skulking lot,<a href="#note-7" id="noteref-7" epub:type="noteref">7</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No lump of loam, but one that well he knew</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would first leap lightly from the crested helm?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such deeds were his, and at his side was I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This slave, of a barbarian mother born.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How canst thou prate thus idly? Look at home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hast thou forgotten that thine own sire’s sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was Phrygian Pelops, a barbarian?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Atreus who begat thee, wretch, did set</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before his brother a most impious feast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His brother’s children’s flesh? That thou thyself</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Com’st of a Cretan mother whom her sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Caught with an alien slave, her paramour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sent to feed dumb fishes of the deep?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus basely born thou twit’st me with my birth!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sire was Telamon who won the prize</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As champion of the host, a peerless bride,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A princess, daughter of Laomedon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The meed assigned him by Alemena’s son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She was my mother. And am I, thus born</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nobly of parents both of noblest birth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am I to shame my kindred overthrown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now helpless, whelmed in utter misery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom thou wouldst spurn and rob of burial rites,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor art ashamed to promulgate this ban?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Know this full well, where’er ye cast this man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We three, three corpses, ye will cast beside.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For me ’twere nobler before all men’s eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fall in his behalf than for a wife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of thine—or of thy brother, should I say?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore bethink thee—’tis thine interest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No less than mine—if on me thou dar’st lay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A finger, thou wilt surely wish full soon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rather to bear the brand of cowardice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than prove thy reckless bravery on me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My lord Odysseus, thou art come in time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thou art here to mediate, not embroil.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is it, sirs? Far off I heard loud words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the Atridae o’er the hero’s corpse.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>True, lord Odysseus; were we not provoked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the most shameful taunts from yonder man?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What taunts? For my part I can pardon one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who when reviled retorts in angry words.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I did abuse him as his acts deserved.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say by what action gave he just offence?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He vows he will not leave unsepultured</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The corpse, but bury it in my despite.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>May I be candid with thee as a friend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without suspicion of my loyalty?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely. I am not senseless, and I count</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee among all the Greeks my chiefest friend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then hear me. O for pity’s sake forbear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Repent, and let not violence and hate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blind thee to trample justice under foot.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I also counted him my deadliest foe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In all the army, ever since the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When by award I won Achilles’ arms;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet for all that, foe as he was to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would not so requite his wrong with wrong</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As not to own that, save Achilles, he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In all the host of Argives had no peer.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unjustly thou wouldst thus dishonour him;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For not to him, but to the laws of heaven</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wouldst thou do wrong; and wrong it is to insult</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A brave man dead, e’en if he be thy foe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou, Odysseus, take his part against me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, yet I hated him so long as hate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was honourable.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why not hate him still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And set thy heel on his dead body too?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Delight not, son of Atreus, in ill gains.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis hard for monarchs to show piety.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But not respect for friends who counsel well.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A true man ever heeds authority.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Forbear: thou conquerest, yielding unto friends.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Think to what kind of man thou showest grace.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My foe he was, but still a noble foe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What wouldst thou? Honour a dead foeman’s corpse?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With me his worth outweighs his enmity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Such sudden change of mind we call caprice.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Common enough the change from friend to foe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dost thou commend such fickle friends as these?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A stubborn temper I would ne’er commend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou mind’st this day to make us seem as cowards.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, as just rulers in the eyes of Greece.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou bidst me then permit the burial?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yes, for I too shall come to need the same.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How true the saw, each labours for himself.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And who deserves my labour more than I?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, let it seem thy doing, friend, not mine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Howe’er ’tis done, ’twill prove thee good and kind.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To thee, my friend, of this be well assured,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d grant a favour greater e’en than this.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But that man, as in living so in death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall have my hate. So do as pleaseth thee. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Agamemnon</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whoe’er, Odysseus, having proof like this,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Denies thy wisdom is himself a fool.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And now to Teucer, once my foe, henceforth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I proffer friendship staunch and true as was</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mine enmity; and I would ask to share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With you in obsequies and ritual</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To grace his grave; no service would I stint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That man can render to the mighty dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Noblest Odysseus, I have naught but praise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For thy good words that all belie my fears.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of all the Greeks thou wast his deadliest foe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet thou alone didst dare espouse his cause,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And hadst no heart to insult this dumb cold clay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like yonder crack-brained chief of the host who came,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He and his brother general, with intent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To cast him forth defamed without a grave.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For that may he who rules in heaven supreme,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the Erinys who forgetteth not,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Justice who accomplisheth the end,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Curse those accursed sinners and confound them,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en as they would have wronged the innocent dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But for thine aid in these our funeral rites,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son of Laertes, old and honoured chief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I must reject the service, though full loath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest I should do displeasure to the dead.</span>
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<br/>
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<span>In all the rest be one of us, and if</span>
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<br/>
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<span>Thou wouldst invite some comrade from the camp</span>
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<br/>
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<span>To join the mourning, we shall welcome him</span>
|
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<br/>
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<span>All else I will provide. Rest well assured,</span>
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<br/>
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<span>We reckon thee a true great-hearted friend.</span>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
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<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
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<p>
|
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<span>Well I was fain to assist, but if your will</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Consents not, I will acquiesce and go.</span>
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</p>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Teucer</td>
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<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
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<p>
|
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<span>Enough: too long have we delayed.</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Go some with mattock armed and spade,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Dig the grave pit speedily;</span>
|
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<br/>
|
||
<span>Lustral waters to supply,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
||
<span>Others set the cauldron high,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Piling around it faggots dry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let another band be sent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fetch his harness from his tent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
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<span>Thou too, child, draw near and lay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy little hands on this cold clay;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though thy help may not be much,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy sire shall feel thy loving touch.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Help to raise this prostrate form.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These limbs are cold, yet still the warm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Veins from the heart and wounded side</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Jet forth their dark ensanguined tide.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Haste, each who claims the name of friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Haste one and all the dead to tend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With service due. Since time began</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There lived on earth no nobler man.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Wisdom still by seeing grows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But no man the unseen knows.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Shall he fare or ill or well</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Who of mortals can foretell?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="endnotes" epub:type="endnotes backmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Endnotes</h2>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li id="note-1" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Odysseus, reputed son of Sisyphus, not Laertes. <a href="#noteref-1" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-2" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Like Shakespeare’s “Gaunt” (<i epub:type="se:name.publication.play">Richard <span epub:type="z3998:roman">II</span></i>, <span epub:type="z3998:roman">II</span> <span epub:type="z3998:roman">i</span>) he plays on his name <em>Aias</em>. <a href="#noteref-2" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-3" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Eurysaces means “broad shield.” <a href="#noteref-3" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-4" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Or,</p>
|
||
<blockquote epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“No spot can tell me of his presence there.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<a href="#noteref-4" epub:type="backlink">↩</a>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-5" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Homer knows nothing of the belt and it is the <em>dead</em> Hector who is dragged round the tomb of Patroclus. <a href="#noteref-5" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-6" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>“Archer” like “ranker” by itself is a term of reproach. In the <i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Iliad</i> Teucer is the best bowman in the Achaean host, but also a good man-at-arms. <a href="#noteref-6" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-7" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>An allusion to the story of Cresphontes who after the Dorian Conquest agreed to cast lots for his share of the Peloponnese and in order to secure the last lot, which he coveted, put a lump of clay into the urn instead of a potsherd. <a href="#noteref-7" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
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<p><i epub:type="se:name.publication.play">Ajax</i><br/>
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was written circa 442 <abbr epub:type="se:era z3998:initialism">BCE</abbr> by<br/>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles">Sophocles</a>.<br/>
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It was translated from Ancient Greek in <time>1913</time> by<br/>
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<b epub:type="z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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<i epub:type="se:name.visual-art.painting">The Greeks and the Trojans Fighting Over the Body of Patroclus</i>,<br/>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Wiertz">Antoine Wiertz</a>.<br/>
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<span>May you do good and not evil.</span>
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