Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- and sail from this land with me, your friend.
- What! To the plains of Troy and to the abhorred son of Atreus, with this miserable foot?
- No, rather to those who will free you and your pus-filled limb from pain, and will save you from your sickness.
- You giver of frightening advice, what have you said?