Philoctetes, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 2; Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1913.
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καὶ τοῖν παρʼ ἡμῖν ἐντυχὼν Ἀσκληπίδαιν
νόσου μαλαχθῇς τῆσδε, καὶ τὰ πέργαμα
1335
ξὺν τοῖσδε τόξοις ξύν τʼ ἐμοὶ πέρσας φανῇς.
ὡς δʼ οἶδα ταῦτα τῇδʼ ἔχοντʼ ἐγὼ φράσω.
ἀνὴρ γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐστιν ἐκ Τροίας ἁλούς,
Ἕλενος ἀριστόμαντις, ὃς λέγει σαφῶς
ὡς δεῖ γενέσθαι ταῦτα· καὶ πρὸς τοῖσδʼ ἔτι
1340
ὡς ἔστʼ ἀνάγκη τοῦ παρεστῶτος θέρους
Τροίαν ἁλῶναι πᾶσαν· ἢ δίδωσʼ ἑκὼν
κτείνειν ἑαυτόν, ἢν τάδε ψευσθῇ λέγων.
ταῦτʼ οὖν ἐπεὶ κάτοισθα, συγχώρει θέλων.
καλὴ γὰρ ἡ ʼπίκτησις, Ἑλλήνων ἕνα
1345
κριθέντʼ ἄριστον τοῦτο μὲν παιωνίας
ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν, εἶτα τὴν πολύστονον
Τροίαν ἑλόντα κλέος ὑπέρτατον λαβεῖν.
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Φιλοκτήτης
ὦ στυγνὸς αἰών, τί με, τί δῆτʼ ἔχεις ἄνω
βλέποντα κοὐκ ἀφῆκας εἰς Ἅιδου μολεῖν;
1350
οἴμοι, τί δράσω; πῶς ἀπιστήσω λόγοις
τοῖς τοῦδʼ, ὃς εὔνους ὢν ἐμοὶ παρῄνεσεν;
ἀλλʼ εἰκάθω δῆτʼ; εἶτα πῶς ὁ δύσμορος
εἰς φῶς τάδʼ ἔρξας εἶμι; τῷ προσήγορος;
πῶς, ὦ τὰ πάντʼ ἰδόντες ἀμφʼ ἐμοὶ κύκλοι,
1355
ταῦτʼ ἐξανασχήσεσθε, τοῖσιν Ἀτρέως
ἐμὲ ξυνόντα παισίν, οἵ μʼ ἀπώλεσαν;
πῶς τῷ πανώλει παιδὶ τῷ Λαερτίου;
οὐ γάρ με τἄλγος τῶν παρελθόντων δάκνει,
ἀλλʼ οἷα χρὴ παθεῖν με πρὸς τούτων ἔτι
1360
δοκῶ προλεύσσειν· οἷς γὰρ ἡ γνώμη κακῶν
μήτηρ γένηται, τἄλλα παιδεύει κακούς.
καὶ σοῦ δʼ ἔγωγε θαυμάσας ἔχω τόδε.
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