Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Not I. But you, I say, will not understand.
Philoctetes
  1. Do I not know already that the Atreids cast me away?
Neoptolemus
  1. They cast you out, yes, but look if they will not in turn restore you.
Philoctetes
  1. Never—if I must first consent to see Troy.