Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Then I am not to be the conqueror, as you said?
- Neither will you be without them, nor they without you.
- It would seem, then, that we must track them down, if things stand as you say.
- Know that by doing this task, you win two rewards.
- What are they? If I knew, I would not refuse the deed.
- You will be celebrated in the same breath as clever and as noble.
- So be it! I will do it, and cast off all shame.
- Do you remember, then, the story that I recommended?
- Be sure of it, since once and for all I have consented.
- You stay here, then, to wait for him. Meanwhile I will go away, so as not to be observed here with you,
- and I will send our lookout back to your ship. And, if in my view you seem to linger at all beyond the due time, I will send that same man back again, after disguising him as the captain of a merchant-ship, so that secrecy may be on our side.