Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Yes, it was by a good deed that I myself won it.
Neoptolemus
  1. I am not sorry that I found you and have gained your friendship, since whoever knows how to render benefit for a benefit received must prove a friend more valuable than any possession. Please, do go inside.
Philoctetes
  1. Agreed, and I will bring you also.
  2. My sickness craves the comfort of your presence.Philoctetes and Neoptolemus enter the cave.