Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Not so; this weather is against them also.
Philoctetes
  1. No wind stands in the way of pirates who sense a chance to steal and plunder by force.
Neoptolemus
  1. Well, if you are so resolved, let us go, once you have taken from the cave whatever you need or desire most.
Philoctetes
  1. Yes, there are some things that I need, though the choice is not large.