Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Leave you? No, not I. Rather, to your pain, I will bring you along. That is my torment.
Philoctetes
  1. What do you mean, son? I do not understand.
Neoptolemus
  1. I will conceal nothing. You must sail to Troy, back to the Achaeans and the forces of the Atreids.
Philoctetes
  1. Ah, no! What have you said?