Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 72

Philoctetes: O joyful sound!
If thou sayst truly.

Neoptolemus: Let my actions speak.
Stretch forth thy hand, and take thy arms again. (As Neoptolemus
gives the bow and arrows to Philoctetes, Ulysses suddenly enters.)

Ulysses: Witness ye gods! Here, in the name of Greece
And the Atreidae, I forbid it.

Philoctetes: Ha!
What voice is that? Ulysses'?

Ulysses: Aye, 'tis I-
I who perforce will carry thee to Troy
Spite of Achilles' son.

Philoctetes: (He aims an arrow directly at Ulysses.) Not if I aim

This shaft aright.

Neoptolemus: (laying hold of him) Now, by the gods, I beg thee

Stop thy rash hand!

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