Philoctetes

Sophocles

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

  1. Ah, misery! Clearly, then, my father sired me to be a slave and no free man.
Odysseus
  1. Not so, but to be the peer of the best and bravest, with whom you are destined to take Troy and force it to the ground.
Philoctetes
  1. No, never—even if I must suffer every torment,
  2. so long as I have this island’s steep cliffs beneath me!