Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Give back my bow, boy, give it up.
Odysseus
  1. That he shall never do, even if he wished to. And, what is more, you must come along with it, or my men will bring you by force.
Philoctetes
  1. Me, you basest and boldest of scoundrels,
  2. they will take me by force?