Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- And I myself attest your accusations,
- for I know their truth through my own experience with the wickedness of the Atreids and the force of Odysseus.
- What, do you also have a grievance against the accursed sons of Atreus, a cause for anger at some mistreatment?
- If only I might one day be allowed to fulfill my heart’s rage by the deeds of my hand,