The Tragedies of Sophocles Author:Robert Potter, Sophocles Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' s Chorus. Son of Telamon, that swayest the based shore of sea-girt Salamis, I joy over thee when "fortunate: but when a stroke from Jupiter, or malignant... more » rumour of muttered calumny from the Greeks assails thee, I feel deep horror, and quiver with alarm, like the glance of a fluttering dove. Even as on the night now vanished, great clamours, tending to disgrace, beset us; that thou, having rushed forth to the meadow, the courser's joy, hast destroyed the herds and plunder of the Greeks, all that yet was left their lances' prize, slaughtering them with flashing steel. Such whispered words as these Ulysses framing carries to the ear of all, and firmly convinces them ; since now he tells a tale of thee, most plausible, and every one that hears is yet more delighted than the teller, insolently triumphing in thy sorrows. For whoso launches his bolt at noble persons/ can never miss : but were any one to bring such charge against me, he would riot be believed; since envy crawls on towards the master. And yet the mean, without the Literally, " doing well." x Virgil has not forgotten this characteristic of Ulysses. See the JEneld, B. II. v. 97, 164. i " Oinne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quauto major, qui peccat, habetur." See also Aristotle's Rhet. B. II. c. 10. " If I am traduced by tongues, which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing,—let me say, TU but the fate of place," Henry VIII. Actl,te. 2. great, are but a slippery defence to a tower, for the low united to the great, and the great by means of bis inferiors, might best be supported. But 'tis impossible to fore-teach the senseless opinions on this. By such men art thou clamoured against, and we have not strength to make head against all...« less