True; And 'tis against them too. PHILOCTETES Alas! no storms Can drive back fraud and rapine fro...
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DEIANEIRA O Zeus, who rulest the meads of Oeta, sacred from the scythe, at last, though late, thou...
O death! where art thou, death? so often called, Wilt thou not listen? wilt thou never come? Take ...
Well, I will go; thy counsel is not amiss. MESSENGER And I, shall I wait here? Or what is thy plea...
Beneath thy feet imploring? Base betrayer! To rob me of my bow, the means of life, The only means-...
this robe, doing everything to it as he enjoined while he lived. The work is finished. May deeds of...
ULYSSES No more! I must be gone. PHILOCTETES (to NEOPTOLEMUS) Son of Achilles, Thou wilt not lea...
And does Achilles' son Say this to me? NEOPTOLEMUS Why force me to repeat My words so often to t...
Who have destroyed me, e'en the sons of Atreus, E'en with Ulysses, source of all my woes? My suffe...
By thy loved mother, by whate'er remains On earth most dear to thee, oh! hear me now, Thy supplian...
The powers who hold by might the sway. Thou hast withstood authority, A self-willed rebel, thou mu...
CREON True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills. TEIRESIAS Thou art infected with that ill thyself. ...
The bridal chamber of the maid and Death, We sped, about to enter. But a guard Heard from that god...
400 BC PHILOCTETES by Sophocles translated by Thomas Francklin CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ULYSSES, ...
Of giving burial. But where's the King? CHORUS There from the palace he returns in time. [Enter C...