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Ajax, son of Telamon

Ajax

also: Aiace

The Homeric and tragic hero who killed himself in grief and rage after the arms of Achilles were awarded to Odysseus. Cicero cites him, with a tag from Roman tragedy, as the great mythic exemplum of suicide from disgrace.

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For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speeches · 2 mentions
On Duties philosophy · 2 mentions

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