Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Neoptolemus: What, Ulysses?

Ulysses: The glorious names of valiant and of wise.

Neoptolemus: Away! I'll do it. Thoughts of guilt or shame

No more appal me.

Ulysses: Wilt thou do it then?
Wilt thou remember what I told thee of?

Neoptolemus: Depend on 't; I have promised- that's sufficient.

Ulysses: Here then remain thou; I must not be seen.
If thou stay long, I'll send a faithful spy,
Who in a sailor's habit well disguised
May pass unknown; of him, from time to time,
What best may suit our purpose thou shalt know.
I'll to the ship. Farewell! and may the god
Who brought us here, the fraudful Mercury,
And great Minerva, guardian of our country,
And ever kind to me, protect us still! (Ulysses goes out as the Chorus
enters. The following lines are chanted responsively between Neoptolemus
and the Chorus.)

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