Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. For you, certainly, since I am your friend and speak in friendship.
Philoctetes
  1. How can that be, when you would give me up to my enemies?
Neoptolemus
  1. Please, sir, learn to be less defiant in misfortune.
Philoctetes
  1. You will ruin me—I know it—with these words.