from Hades into the light, as his father did!MerchantI know nothing about that. But for my part I must return to ship, while for you I pray that god may help you in every possible way.Exit Merchant. PhiloctetesNow is it not astounding, boy, that Odysseus would ever have expected by means of soft wordsto lead me from his ship and show me in the middle of the Greeks? No! I would sooner listen to that greatest and worst of my enemies, the viper which made me crippled as I am! But there is nothing that he would not say or dare. And now I know that he is coming here.