Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. and sail from this land with me, your friend.
Philoctetes
  1. What! To the plains of Troy and to the abhorred son of Atreus, with this miserable foot?
Neoptolemus
  1. No, rather to those who will free you and your pus-filled limb from pain, and will save you from your sickness.
Philoctetes
  1. You giver of frightening advice, what have you said?