Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. So what need is there of you? Farewell! Enjoy your strolls on Lemnos! We must be going. And perhaps your onetime prize will bring me the honor which ought to have been your own.
Philoctetes
  1. Ah, no, what shall I do? Are you to shine before the Argives graced with my arms?
Odysseus
  1. Argue with me no more. I am going.
Philoctetes
  1. Seed of Achilles, will you, too, grant me your voice no more, but leave without a word?