Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 49

Philoctetes: He purposes at last,
I fear it much, to leave me.

Neoptolemus: Leave thee! No!
But how to make thee go with pleasure hence,
There I'm distressed.

Philoctetes: I understand thee not;
What means my son?

Neoptolemus: I can no longer hide
The dreadful secret from thee; thou art going
To Troy, e'en to the Greeks, to the Atreidae.

Philoctetes: Alas! what sayest thou?

Neoptolemus: Do not weep, but hear me.

Philoctetes: What must I hear? what wilt thou do with me?

Neoptolemus: First set thee free; then carry thee, my friend,

To conquer Troy.

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