What can I do, then if my pleading fails to persuade you of anything that I recommend?The easiest course for me is to stop talking, and for you to live, just as you do now, without deliverance.PhiloctetesLet me bear the sufferings that are fated me. But what you promised me with your right hand in mine—to bring me home,—that promise fulfil for me, son,and do not delay, or remind me further of Troy. I have had my fill of grief and lamentations.