Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. You will kill me, if you touch me further.
Neoptolemus
  1. There, then, I release you—if in fact you believe it is for the better.
Philoctetes
  1. Wide Earth, embrace me now on the verge of death!
  2. This pain no longer lets me stand up.