Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. The whole host of the Achaeans, and I for one.
Neoptolemus
  1. Wise though you were born, your threats are void of wisdom.
Odysseus
  1. And your words are not wise, nor is that which you want to do.
Neoptolemus
  1. And yet if they are just, they are better than wise.