Philoctetes
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 4: The Philoctetes. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.
- Unless you come of your own free will.
- O Lemnos, and you all-conquering flame kindled by Hephaestus, will you indeed endure it that this man should take me from your domain by force?
- Zeus it is, I tell you, Zeus, who rules this land,
- and it is by Zeus that these actions are decreed. I am his servant.