Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 77

Philoctetes: What good? To whom? To me or to the' Atreidae?

Neoptolemus: I am thy friend, and therefore would persuade thee.

Philoctetes: And therefore give me to my foes.

Neoptolemus: Alas!
Let not misfortunes thus transport thy soul
To rage and bitterness.

Philoctetes: Thou wouldst destroy me.

Neoptolemus: Thou knowst me not.

Philoctetes: I know th' Atreidae well,
Who left me here.

Neoptolemus: They did; yet they perhaps,
E'en they, O Philoctetes! may preserve thee.

Philoctetes: I never will to Troy.

Neoptolemus: What's to be done?
Since I can ne'er persuade thee, I submit;
Live on in misery.

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