Ajax: He will die only after his back runs crimson from my whip.
Athena: Nay, do not so maltreat this man, as though you felt no shame.
Ajax: Pray, Athena, I shall entrust all other things to you,
but this, and no other, is the penalty he will pay.
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ΑΙ. Μάστιγι πρῶτον νῶτα φοινιχθεὶς θάνῃ.
ΑΘ. Μὴ δῆτα τὸν δύστηνον ὧδέ γ’ αἰκίσῃ.
ΑΙ. Χαίρειν, ᾿Αθάνα, τἄλλ’ ἐγώ σ’ ἐφίεμαι,
κεῖνος δὲ τείσει τήνδε κοὐκ ἄλλην δίκην.
And, of course, the ‘he’ in this passage is a ram, though Ajax believes it is Odysseus!