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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles
“Honour in life or honour in the grave Befits the noble heart”
Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Ajax, first episode, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)
Restored to sanity, Ajax tells Tecmessa and the chorus that a noble man must live with honour or die with it.
Citation: "Honour in life or honour in the grave Befits the noble heart" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Ajax, first episode, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q2)
