Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Oh, no! This business will bring me no good. Have you come bringing me new misery on top of the old?
- Take heart and listen to my words.
- I am afraid. Beautiful words did me evil once before, when I believed your promises.
- Is there no room, then, for repentance?