Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. What are they? If I knew, I would not refuse the deed.
Odysseus
  1. You will be celebrated in the same breath as clever and as noble.
Neoptolemus
  1. So be it! I will do it, and cast off all shame.
Odysseus
  1. Do you remember, then, the story that I recommended?