Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- And its wretched occupant, where is he gone to?
- It seems clear to me, anyway, that he is plowing his way along somewhere near here in search of food. For I know of a report that
- this is his means of sustenance—a wretch wretchedly shooting prey with his feathered shafts—and that no one comes near to him to heal his misery.
- For my part, I pity him when I think how,