Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Hush,boy!
Neoptolemus
  1. What is it?
Chorus
  1. I heard a sudden thud, one that might naturally come from a man worn by pain. From there it came, I think—or there.
  2. It strikes, strikes hard on my ear, the sure sound of someone creeping along his way as if tortured. I cannot miss that grievous cry of a man hard-pressed, even from afar—its tone is too clear.