Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 55

Ulysses: Know, great Jove himself
Doth here preside. He hath decreed thy fate;
I but perform his will.

Philoctetes: Detested wretch,
Mak'st thou the gods a cover for thy crime?
Do they teach falsehood?

Ulysses: No, they taught me truth,
And therefore, hence- that way thy journey lies. (Pointing to the
sea)

Philoctetes: It doth not.

Ulysses: But I say it must be so.

Philoctetes: And Philoctetes then was born a slave!
I did not know it,

Ulysses: No; I mean to place thee
E'en with the noblest, e'en with those by whom
Proud Troy must perish.

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