Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. I recognize what will be best in the end for you and for me.
Philoctetes
  1. Have you no shame before the gods for saying that?
Neoptolemus
  1. Why should a man be ashamed of benefiting his friends?
Philoctetes
  1. Do you mean a benefit to the Atreids, or for me?