Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- For you, certainly, since I am your friend and speak in friendship.
- How can that be, when you would give me up to my enemies?
- Please, sir, learn to be less defiant in misfortune.
- You will ruin me—I know it—with these words.