Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Have no fears as to my caution. The bow shall pass
  2. into no hands but yours and mine. Give it to me, and may good luck accompany it!
Philoctetes
  1. There, take it boy. And humble yourself before the jealous gods, so that the bow may not prove baneful for you, as it did for me and for him who owned it before me.
Neoptolemus
  1. O gods, grant this to the two of us! And grant us a voyage