Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Come, son, let us be moving, so that a wide sea may part us from the ship of Odysseus. Let us go! Good speed in good season brings sleep and rest when toil is finished.
Neoptolemus
  1. Then as soon as the wind is not at our prow,
  2. we will sail. At present it blows against us.
Philoctetes
  1. The sailing is always fair, when you flee trouble.