Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Who is that? Do I hear Odysseus?
Odysseus
  1. Yes, Odysseus, be sure of it. Here I am before your eyes.
Philoctetes
  1. Ah, me, I am sold, destroyed! It was he, then, who entrapped me and robbed me of my arms.
Odysseus
  1. Yes, I and no other. I avow it.