Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Oh, no! This business will bring me no good. Have you come bringing me new misery on top of the old?
Neoptolemus
  1. Take heart and listen to my words.
Philoctetes
  1. I am afraid. Beautiful words did me evil once before, when I believed your promises.
Neoptolemus
  1. Is there no room, then, for repentance?