Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Come on! Do not look at him, kind and noble though you are. Do not obliterate our good fortune.
To the Chorus.
Philoctetes
  1. And will you also, friends, leave me so desolate and show me no pity?
Chorus
  1. The boy commands our ship. Whatever he says to you, that is our answer also.
To the Chorus.
Neoptolemus
  1. I shall be told by Odysseus here that I am too