Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Speak no more curses, and instead receive these weapons from my hand.
Philoctetes
  1. What did you say? Am I being tricked a second time?
Neoptolemus
  1. No, I swear it by the pure majesty of Zeus most high!
Philoctetes
  1. O welcome words—if your words are true!