Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Speak no more curses, and instead receive these weapons from my hand.
- What did you say? Am I being tricked a second time?
- No, I swear it by the pure majesty of Zeus most high!
- O welcome words—if your words are true!