Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Philoctetes: Is he then dead?

Neoptolemus: He is.

Philoctetes: Alas! the son of Tydeus, and that slave,
Sold by his father Sisyphus, they live,
Unworthy as they are.

Neoptolemus: Alas! they do,
And flourish still.

Philoctetes: My old and worthy friend
The Pylian sage, how is he? He could see
Their arts, and would have given them better counsels.

Neoptolemus: Weighed down with grief he lives, but most unhappy,

Weeps his lost son, his dear Antilochus.

Philoctetes: O double woe! whom I could most have wished

To live and to be happy, those to perish!
Ulysses to survive! It should not be.

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