Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Here, high up—and of footfalls there is not a sound.
Odysseus
  1. See that he is not sheltered there asleep.
Neoptolemus
  1. I see an empty dwelling, without occupants.
Odysseus
  1. And is there no provision inside for human habitation?