Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Any of these arrows that may have been forgotten, and may have slipped away from me, so that I not leave it for another to take.
Neoptolemus
  1. Is that indeed the famous bow which you hold?
Philoctetes
  1. This, and no other, that I carry in my hand.
Neoptolemus
  1. Is there any way that I might have a closer view of it—and handle it, and salute it as divine?