Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. What is the matter? Where strays your speech?
Neoptolemus
  1. I do not know where to turn my tongue when my thoughts are so confused.
Philoctetes
  1. Confused? How so? No, do not say it!
Neoptolemus
  1. My mind is indeed brought to that condition.