Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. What are you going to do? Suddenly a certain fear comes over me.
Neoptolemus
  1. —From whom I took this bow, back to him—
Odysseus
  1. Zeus! What will you say? Certainly you do not intend to give it back?
Neoptolemus
  1. Yes, I do, because disgracefully and unjustly I got hold of it.