Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Ayee, ayee! Doom, Doom! My suffering kills me! Foot, my foot, what shall I do with you in the days to come?
  2. O friends, return, come back to me!
Chorus
  1. To do what that has a different spirit from that of your former commands?
Philoctetes
  1. There is no reason for indignation when the words of one crazed