Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- in their place he should have been announced as dead?
- The man is a clever wrestler. But even clever schemes, Philoctetes, are often blocked.
- Now, by the gods, tell me—where was Patroclus when you needed him, he whom your father loved beyond all others?
- He, too, was dead. And in a brief maxim I would teach you this: War takes no evil man by choice, but always the good men.