Well, know first, stranger, that we are Greeks, since you desire to learn this.PhiloctetesO cherished sound! Ah, that I should truly begreeted by such a man, after so long a time! What need, young man, has made you land here and brought you to this spot? What business? What wind so kind? Speak, tell me all, so that I may know who you are.NeoptolemusMy birthplace is the island Scyros, and I am sailinghomeward. I am the son of Achilles, by name Neoptolemus. Now you know everything.PhiloctetesO son of a father I loved, and of soil I cherished! Ward of aged Lycomedes, on what mission have you touched this shore? From where are you sailing?NeoptolemusWell, since you ask, it is from Ilium that I am now guiding my ship.PhiloctetesWhat? You were certainly not our shipmate at the beginning of the expedition there.NeoptolemusAnd did you have a part in that toil?PhiloctetesThen you do not know who I am?NeoptolemusHow should I know one whom I have never seen before?