Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. To bring me back by force, or through persuasion?
Merchant
  1. I do not know; but I have come to tell you what I did hear.
Neoptolemus
  1. Are Phoenix and his comrades really so eager to do this favor for the Atreids?
Merchant
  1. Be sure that it is being done, and without delay.