Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. so that Mycenae might learn, and Sparta, that Scyros also is a mother of brave men!
Philoctetes
  1. Well said, son! Now what is the reason that you have come complaining against them with this fierce wrath?
Neoptolemus
  1. I will tell you—and yet it is hard to tell—
  2. the outrage that I suffered from them upon my arrival there. For when fate decreed that Achilles should die—