Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. My error was to my dishonor, and now I must try to retrieve it.
Odysseus
  1. The army of the Achaeans causes you no fear, when you do this?
Neoptolemus
  1. With justice on my side, I do not tremble at the terrors you name.
Odysseus
  1. ---
Neoptolemus
  1. No, not even at the threat of your hand do I yield obedience.
Odysseus
  1. Then our battles shall be not with the Trojans, but with you.
Neoptolemus
  1. So be it, if that is what the future holds.
Odysseus
  1. Do you see my right hand
  2. clasping my sword hilt?
Neoptolemus
  1. You will see me do the same, and not slowly.
Odysseus
  1. However, I will let you be. But I will go report this to all the army, and by them you will be punished.