Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Do not wail in grief, before you understand!
Philoctetes
  1. Understand what? What do you intend to do to me?
Neoptolemus
  1. Save you, first, from this misery, and then,
  2. together with you, go and plunder Troy’s plains.