Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. And its wretched occupant, where is he gone to?
Neoptolemus
  1. 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
  2. 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.
Chorus
  1. For my part, I pity him when I think how,