Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- 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.
- Is that indeed the famous bow which you hold?
- This, and no other, that I carry in my hand.
- Is there any way that I might have a closer view of it—and handle it, and salute it as divine?