soft-hearted; but remain here, if that one agrees, until the sailors have readied everything on board, and we have made our prayers to the gods. In the interval, perhaps, he will obtain a better attitude towards us. And so we two are going.And you, when we call you, be quick to come.Exeunt Odysseus and Neoptolemus.

PhiloctetesHollow in the caverned rock, now hot, now frosty, how true it seems, then, that I was sadly fated never to leave you!No, you will witness my death, too. Ah, ah, me! Sad dwelling, so long filled with the pain welling from my flesh, what will be my daily portion hereafter?