Philoctetes

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.

  1. And why by deceit rather than by persuasion?
Odysseus
  1. He will never listen; and by force you cannot take him.
Neoptolemus
  1. Has he strength so terrific to make him bold?
Odysseus
  1. Yes, shafts inevitable, escorts of death.