Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Neoptolemus: By fraud? And why
Not by persuasion?

Ulysses: He'll not listen to it;
And force were vainer still.

Neoptolemus: What mighty power
Hath he to boast?

Ulysses: His arrows winged with death
Inevitable.

Neoptolemus: Then it were not safe
E'en to approach him.

Ulysses: No; unless by fraud
He be secured.

Neoptolemus: And thinkst thou 'tis not base
To tell a lie then?

Ulysses: Not if on that lie
Depends our safety.

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