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326 Sophocles [329-350]<br />

Enter and help, if help at all you can:<br />

For by friends' words men so bestead are won.<br />

LEADER<br />

Child of Teleutas, fearful are thy tidings,<br />

That our prince has been maddened by his griefs.<br />

Alas! Woe, woe!<br />

AJAX {within)<br />

TECMESSA<br />

Soon, I fear, worse will follow. Heard you not?<br />

Twas Ajax. Oh, how dreadful was that cry.<br />

Alas! Woe, woe!<br />

AJAX<br />

LEADER<br />

He seems either still frenzied, or else grieving<br />

For his past frenzies, now he sees their work.<br />

Alas I My son, my son!<br />

AJAX<br />

TECMESSA<br />

Woe's me! Eurysaces, 'tis for thee he calls.<br />

What can he purpose?—Where art thou?—Ah, woe!<br />

AJAX<br />

Teucer, come!—Where is Teucer? Will he never<br />

Come back from cattle-raiding?—while I perish!<br />

LEADER<br />

He seems in his right mind. But open the doors.<br />

Perhaps even the sight of me may sober him.<br />

{She opens the doors of the tent. AJAX is revealed sitting among<br />

the slain beasts.)<br />

TECMESSA<br />

See, I have opened. You may now behold<br />

What he has done, and in what plight he lies.<br />

AJAX {chanting)<br />

Alas!<br />

My shipmates and friends, you that alone to me<br />

Loyal and true remain, of all friends alone,

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