Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. But it will bring you no joy, if this arrow fly straight.Odysseus flees from the stage.
Neoptolemus
  1. Wait—by the gods, no! Do not let it fly!
Philoctetes
  1. Let go of me, in the name of the gods, dear boy!
Neoptolemus
  1. I will not.