Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Why do you groan like this and call on the gods?
Philoctetes
  1. That they may come to me with power to save and soothe.—Ai! Ai!
Neoptolemus
  1. What troubles you? Speak, do not keep so silent. It is plain enough that you are suffering somehow.
Philoctetes
  1. I am destroyed, boy—I can never conceal my suffering when you are close. Ah! Ah! It shoots through me, shoots straight through! Oh, the pain,the misery!