FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ODYSSEY

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

AJAX THE LESSER
Ajax was wrecked,
for Neptune drove him on to the great rocks of Gyrae; nevertheless, he
let him get safe out of the water, and in spite of all Minerva's
hatred he would have escaped death, if he had not ruined himself by
boasting. He said the gods could not drown him even though they had
tried to do so, and when Neptune heard this large talk, he seized
his trident in his two brawny hands, and split the rock of Gyrae in
two pieces. The base remained where it was, but the part on which Ajax
was sitting fell headlong into the sea and carried Ajax with it; so he
drank salt water and was drowned.
BOOK 4