Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Though now as a casual spectator you are compliant,
  2. beware lest later, when filled with his disease by its constant company, you prove no longer constant to these sentiments.
Chorus
  1. That will not happen. You will never have just cause to rebuke me for that!
Neoptolemus
  1. Well, then, it would shame me if the stranger were to find