Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Yes, terrible is the burden of your disease.
- Terrible beyond telling! Oh, pity me!
- What shall I do?
- Do not betray me because of fear. This plague comes only now and then,—perhaps when she has been sated with her roamings elsewhere.