[Meaning] difficult to move, unalterable, difficult to shift, [one] who did not find [a way] to escape suffering. Thus they also say 'intransigent ditch': one which is not easy to undo.[1] Or, one who is immovable in anger or disposition or greediness, the type [they call] also 'intractable'. Sophokles [says]: "[where, where] is he lying, the intransigent" -- that is the ill-tempered -- "the ill-named Aias?".[2] As even Aias himself said: "Ai! ai! Who would have ever thought that my name would provide such an appellation for my misfortune? Now I have reason to cry 'ai!' twice [...], for such are the misfortunes I am encountering."[3]