Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. What shall we do? It rests with you, my king, whether we now sail, or move forward to answer his pleas.
Neoptolemus
  1. A startling pity for him has come upon me—and not now for the first time, but long ago.
Philoctetes
  1. Show mercy, boy, for the love of the gods, and do not give men cause to reproach you for having cheated me.
Neoptolemus
  1. Ah, no, what shall I do? I wish I had never left