Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. It cannot be that offense at my sickness has persuaded you not to take me aboard your ship?
Neoptolemus
  1. All is offense when a man has abandoned his true nature and does what does not suit him.
Philoctetes
  1. But you, at least, are not departing from your begetter’s
  2. example either in word or deed, when you help a man who is noble.