Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Neoptolemus: Know, stranger, first what most thou seemst to wish;

We are of Greece.

Philoctetes: Oh! happiness to hear!
After so many years of dreadful silence,
How welcome was that sound! Oh! tell me, son,
What chance, what purpose, who conducted thee?
What brought thee thither, what propitious gale?
Who art thou? Tell me all- inform me quickly.

Neoptolemus: Native of Scyros, hither I return;
My name is Neoptolemus, the son
Of brave Achilles. I have told thee all.

Philoctetes: Dear is thy country, and thy father dear
To me, thou darling of old Lycomede;
But tell me in what fleet, and whence thou cam'st.

Neoptolemus: From Troy.

Philoctetes: From Troy? I think thou wert not with us
When first our fleet sailed forth.

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