Ajax
So that they ne’er will outrage Ajax more.
Athena
If I interpret rightly, they are dead.
Ajax
Both dead; now let them cheat me of my arms!
Athena
Good; and how fares it with Laertes’ son?
How hast thou left him? or has he escaped?
Ajax
He! That sly fox—wouldst know what’s come of him?
Athena
Of him—Odysseus, thy antagonist.
Ajax
A welcome guest he sits within, fast bound.
I have no mind that he should die as yet.
Athena
What would’st thou first? what further profit win?
Ajax
I’ll bind him to a pillar of my tent.
Athena
What vengeance wilt thou wreak on the poor wretch?
Ajax
Flay with my scourge his back before he die.
Athena
O torture not the wretch so savagely.