Sophocles Ajax 125-126

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“For I see that we who live are nothing more than ghosts and empty darkness”

 

ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν

εἴδωλ᾽ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἢ κούφην σκιάν.

 

Ajax the son of Telamon was not a happy man.

Ajax took his own life in the face of disappointment and dishonor. Some blame Odysseus.

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Original translations of famous words from Ancient Greece and Rome

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