Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Neoptolemus: Who shall dare to tell it
Without a blush?

Ulysses: We need not blush at aught
That may promote our interest and success.

Neoptolemus: But where's the interest that should bias me?

Come he or not to Troy, imports it aught
To Neoptolemus?

Ulysses: Troy cannot fall
Without his arrows.

Neoptolemus: Saidst thou not that I
Was destined to destroy her?

Ulysses: Without them
Naught canst thou do, and they without thee nothing.

Neoptolemus: Then I must have them.

Ulysses: When thou hast, remember
A double prize awaits thee.

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