Literary Record Details

Author: SOPHOCLES

Opus: Ajax
Reference: Soph.Ajax.1285

Period: Classical

Genre: poetry
Subgenre: tragedy
Object:
Gender: m
Context: military

Greek Text: οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον ἐς μέσον καθείς, ὑγρᾶς ἀρούρας βῶλον, ἀλλ᾽ ὃς εὐλόφου κυνῆς ἔμελλε πρῶτος ἅλμα κουφιεῖν

English Text: The lot which he cast in was not the kind to flee the challenge; it was no lump of moist earth, but one which would be the first to leap lightly from the crested helmet!