Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. have regarding you, and not only designs, but deeds in progress and no longer postponed.
Neoptolemus
  1. The service you have done me by your forethought, sir, unless I am unworthy, will remain in my grateful thoughts. But tell me just what the designs are that you mentioned, so that I may understand
  2. what is the strange plan of the Greeks that you know.
Merchant
  1. Pursuers are on the way in search of you with a fleet. They are the aged Phoenix and the sons of Theseus.