FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ODYSSEY

(COPIED FROM WEBSITE - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/odyssey.html)

AJAX THE GREATER (TELAMON)
"The ghosts of other dead men stood near me and told me each his own
melancholy tale; but that of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof-
still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about
the armour of Achilles. Thetis had offered it as a prize, but the
Trojan prisoners and Minerva were the judges. Would that I had never
gained the day in such a contest, for it cost the life of Ajax, who
was foremost of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus, alike in
stature and prowess.
BOOK 11