Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Ah, me! Tell me no more, until I first know this—is the son of Peleus dead?
Neoptolemus
  1. Dead—not by a mortal hand, but by a god’s.
  2. He was brought down, as men say, by the arrow of Phoebus.
Philoctetes
  1. Well, noble alike are the slayer and the slain. But I am at a loss to know, son, whether I should first inquire into the wrong done you, or mourn the dead.