Agamemnon: For if you speak, I would no longer understand; for I do not comprehend the barbarian tongue.
§1264εἴθʼ ὑμὶν ἀμφοῖν νοῦς γένοιτο σωφρονεῖν·
Leader: Would that a mind to be sober might come to you both!
§1265τούτου γὰρ οὐδὲν σφῷν ἔχω λῷον φράσαι.
For I have nothing better than this to tell you both.
§1266φεῦ, τοῦ θανόντος ὡς ταχεῖά τις βροτοῖς §1267χάρις διαρρεῖ καὶ προδοῦσʼ ἁλίσκεται, §1268εἰ σοῦ γʼ ὅδʼ ἁνὴρ οὐδʼ ἐπὶ σμικρὸν λέγων, §1269Αἴας, ἔτʼ ἴσχει μνῆστιν, οὗ σὺ πολλάκις §1270τὴν σὴν προτείνων προύκαμες ψυχὴν δορί·
Teucer: Alas! How quickly among mortals does gratitude toward the dead slip away and is caught playing traitor, if this man, O Ajax, holds no memory of you even in small measure, who for him often with your spear, putting your life forward, labored hard?
§1271ἀλλʼ οἴχεται δὴ πάντα ταῦτʼ ἐρριμμένα.
But indeed all these things are gone, thrown away.
§1272ὦ πολλὰ λέξας ἄρτι κἀνόητʼ ἔπη, §1273οὐ μνημονεύεις οὐκέτʼ οὐδέν, ἡνίκα §1274ἑρκέων ποθʼ ὑμᾶς οὗτος ἐγκεκλῃμένους, §1275ἤδη τὸ μηδὲν ὄντας ἐν τροπῇ δορός, §1276ἐρρύσατʼ ἐλθὼν μοῦνος, ἀμφὶ μὲν νεῶν §1277ἄκροισιν ἤδη ναυτικοῖς ἑδωλίοις §1278πυρὸς φλέγοντος, ἐς δὲ ναυτικὰ σκάφη §1279πηδῶντος ἄρδην Ἕκτορος τάφρων ὕπερ;
O you who spoke many and foolish words just now, do you no longer remember anything, when this man once, when you were shut in within your defences, already being as nothing in the rout of the spear, saved you, coming alone, while around the ships on the very top of the naval benches the fire was blazing, and onto the naval vessels Hector was leaping utterly over the trenches?
§1280τίς ταῦτʼ ἀπεῖρξεν;
Who kept these things off?
οὐχ ὅδʼ ἦν ὁ δρῶν τάδε, §1281ὃν οὐδαμοῦ φής, οὗ σὺ μή, βῆναι ποδί;
Was it not this man who did these deeds, of whom you say that nowhere did he set foot where you did not?
§1282ἆρʼ ὑμὶν οὗτος ταῦτʼ ἔδρασεν ἔνδικα;
Did this man do these things for you with justice?
§1283χὥτʼ αὖθις αὐτὸς Ἕκτορος μόνος μόνου, §1284λαχών τε κἀκέλευστος, ἦλθʼ ἐναντίος, §1285οὐ δραπέτην τὸν κλῆρον ἐς μέσον καθείς, §1286ὑγρᾶς ἀρούρας βῶλον, ἀλλʼ ὃς εὐλόφου §1287κυνῆς ἔμελλε πρῶτος ἅλμα κουφιεῖν;
And when again he went alone, to face Hector who was alone, having obtained the lot and unbidden, not casting into the midst a runaway lot, a clod of wet earth, but one which from the well-plumed helmet was destined to be the first to make a light leap?
This man was the one doing these things, and I was present with him, the slave, born of the barbarian mother.
§1290δύστηνε, ποῖ βλέπων ποτʼ αὐτὰ καὶ θροεῖς;
Wretched man, to what looking do you ever speak these things?
Do you not know that your father's father, being ancient Pelops, was a barbarian Phrygian?
And Atreus, who in turn begot you, most impious, setting before his brother a feast of his own children?
§1295αὐτὸς δὲ μητρὸς ἐξέφυς Κρήσσης, ἐφʼ ᾗ §1296λαβὼν ἐπακτὸν ἄνδρʼ ὁ φιτύσας πατὴρ §1297ἐφῆκεν ἐλλοῖς ἰχθύσιν διαφθοράν.
And you yourself were born of a Cretan mother, with whom her father, having caught a paramour, sent her to be destroyed by the mute fish.
§1298τοιοῦτος ὢν τοιῷδʼ ὀνειδίζεις σποράν;
Being such a one, do you reproach the birth of such as me?
§1299ὃς ἐκ πατρὸς μέν εἰμι Τελαμῶνος γεγώς, §1300ὅστις στρατοῦ τὰ πρῶτʼ ἀριστεύσας ἐμὴν §1301ἴσχει ξύνευνον μητέρʼ, ἣ φύσει μὲν ἦν §1302βασίλεια, Λαομέδοντος· ἔκκριτον δέ νιν §1303δώρημʼ ἐκείνῳ ʼδωκεν Ἀλκμήνης γόνος.
I who am born of Telamon as father, who, having won the first prize of valor in the army, holds my mother as his bed-partner, who by nature was a princess, daughter of Laomedon; and Alcmene's son gave her to him as a choice gift.
§1304ἆρʼ ὧδʼ ἄριστος ἐξ ἀριστέοιν δυοῖν §1305βλαστὼν ἂν αἰσχύνοιμι τοὺς πρὸς αἵματος, §1306οὓς νῦν σὺ τοιοῖσδʼ ἐν πόνοισι κειμένους §1307ὠθεῖς ἀθάπτους, οὐδʼ ἐπαισχύνῃ λέγων;
Thus being the noblest from two noble parents, born, would I shame those of my own blood, whom now you push aside unburied, lying in such troubles, and do you not shame yourself in saying so?
Know this well then, if you cast this man out anywhere, you will cast us out too, three lying together.
§1310ἐπεὶ καλόν μοι τοῦδʼ ὑπερπονουμένῳ §1311θανεῖν προδήλως μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς σῆς ὑπὲρ §1312γυναικός, ἢ τοῦ σοῦ γʼ ὁμαίμονος λέγω;
Since it is beautiful for me, laboring for him, to die openly rather than for your wife, or for your brother, I say.
§1313πρὸς ταῦθʼ ὅρα μὴ τοὐμόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ σόν.
Therefore look not to my interest, but also to yours.
For if you harm me in any way, you will wish one day to be even a coward rather than to have been bold against me.
Leader: Lord Odysseus, know that you have come at the right moment, if you are present not to join in the clash, but to resolve it.
§1318τί δʼ ἔστιν, ἄνδρες;
Odysseus: What is it, men?
τηλόθεν γὰρ ᾐσθόμην §1319βοὴν Ἀτρειδῶν τῷδʼ ἐπʼ ἀλκίμῳ νεκρῷ.
For from afar I perceived the shout of the Atreidae over this brave corpse.
Agamemnon: For are we not hearing the most shameful words, lord Odysseus, from this man just now?
§1322ποίους;
Odysseus: Of what kind?
ἐγὼ γὰρ ἀνδρὶ συγγνώμην ἔχω §1323κλύοντι φλαῦρα συμβαλεῖν ἔπη κακά.
For I have pardon for a man who hears bad things, to match them with evil words.
§1324ἤκουσεν αἰσχρά· δρῶν γὰρ ἦν τοιαῦτά με.
Agamemnon: He heard shameful things; for he was doing such things to me.
§1325τί γάρ σʼ ἔδρασεν, ὥστε καὶ βλάβην ἔχειν;
Odysseus: For what did he do to you, so that you even have harm?
Agamemnon: He says he will not allow this corpse to be without a share of burial, but will bury him by force against my will.
Odysseus: Is it permitted then for a friend, speaking the truth, to pull together with you no less than before?
Agamemnon: Speak; for I would not be of sound mind otherwise, since I regard you as the greatest friend among the Argives.
§1332ἄκουέ νυν.
Odysseus: Listen then.
τὸν ἄνδρα τόνδε πρὸς θεῶν §1333μὴ τλῇς ἄθαπτον ὧδʼ ἀναλγήτως βαλεῖν·
By the gods, do not bring yourself to cast this man out unburied so ruthlessly.
And let not violence by any means conquer you to hate so much as to trample justice.
§1336κἀμοὶ γὰρ ἦν ποθʼ οὗτος ἔχθιστος στρατοῦ, §1337ἐξ οὗ ʼκράτησα τῶν Ἀχιλλείων ὅπλων, §1338ἀλλʼ αὐτὸν ἔμπας ὄντʼ ἐγὼ τοιόνδʼ ἐμοὶ §1339οὐκ οὖν ἀτιμάσαιμʼ ἄν, ὥστε μὴ λέγειν
For to me too this man was once the most hateful of the host, since I won the arms of Achilles, but nevertheless, though he was such to me, I would not dishonor him, so as to deny...