Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- homeward. I am the son of Achilles, by name Neoptolemus. Now you know everything.
- O son of a father I loved, and of soil I cherished! Ward of aged Lycomedes, on what mission have you touched this shore? From where are you sailing?
- Well, since you ask, it is from Ilium that I am now guiding my ship.
- What? You were certainly not our shipmate at the beginning of the expedition there.