Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Not so; this weather is against them also.
- No wind stands in the way of pirates who sense a chance to steal and plunder by force.
- Well, if you are so resolved, let us go, once you have taken from the cave whatever you need or desire most.
- Yes, there are some things that I need, though the choice is not large.