Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. The deed will soon make it plain. Come, stretch out your right hand and be master of your bow!As he hands the bow and arrows to Philoctetes, Odysseus suddenly appears.
Odysseus
  1. But I forbid it, as the gods are my witnesses, in the name of the Atreids and the entire army!
Philoctetes
  1. Son, whose voice was that? Do I hear Odysseus?
Odysseus
  1. Be sure of it, and you see him at your side, who will carry you to the plains of Troy by force, whether or not the son of Achilles is willing.