Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Then one does not dare even approach him?
Odysseus
  1. No, unless he takes the man by deceit, as I prescribe.
Neoptolemus
  1. Then you think it brings no shame to speak what is false?
Odysseus
  1. No, not if the falsehood yields deliverance.