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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles
“All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream”
Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Ajax, prologue, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)
Shown the maddened Ajax by Athena, Odysseus refuses to gloat and pities his enemy as an image of all mortals.
Citation: "All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Ajax, prologue, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q1)
