Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. There is—a bed of leaves, as if for some one who makes his lodging here.
Odysseus
  1. And all else is bare? There is nothing else beneath the roof?
Neoptolemus
  1. Just a cup of bare wood, the masterpiece of a sorry craftsman, and with it these tools for kindling.
Odysseus
  1. His is the store that you describe.