Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- What do you mean, Neoptolemus? What are you saying?
- Must I repeat the same words twice and three times?
- I would not have wished to hear them even once.
- Know for certain that I have nothing more to say.
- There is someone, I tell you, who will prevent your deed.
- What do you mean? Who will oppose me in this?
- The whole host of the Achaeans, and I for one.
- Wise though you were born, your threats are void of wisdom.
- And your words are not wise, nor is that which you want to do.
- And yet if they are just, they are better than wise.
- And how is it just for you to give up what was won by means of my plans?