Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. More firmly, believe me, than words can say.
Neoptolemus
  1. Well, I could have wished that you had listened to my words, but if nothing that I say will help,then I am finished.
Philoctetes
  1. Yes, all your pleas will be in vain. You will never gain my mind’s good will, since first you fraudulently seized my means of life and robbed me of it, and then you have come here to admonish me, you most hateful descendant of so noble a father!
  2. Ruin seize you all, the Atreids first, and next the son of Laertes, and you!