Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Will you not tell me why you make this return journey with such eager speed?
Neoptolemus
  1. I come to undo the mistake that I made earlier.
Odysseus
  1. Your words alarm me—what mistake was that?
Neoptolemus
  1. The one I made when I obeyed you and all the army.