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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τί δῆτʼ ἂν ἡμεῖς δρῷμεν, εἰ σέ γʼ ἐν λόγοις
πείσειν δυνησόμεσθα μηδὲν ὧν λέγω;
1395
ὡς ῥᾷστʼ ἐμοὶ μὲν τῶν λόγων λῆξαι, σὲ δὲ
ζῆν, ὥσπερ ἤδη ζῇς, ἄνευ σωτηρίας.
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Φιλοκτήτης
ἔα με πάσχειν ταῦθʼ ἅπερ παθεῖν με δεῖ·
ἃ δʼ ᾔνεσάς μοι δεξιᾶς ἐμῆς θιγών,
πέμπειν πρὸς οἴκους, ταῦτά μοι πρᾶξον, τέκνον,
1400
καὶ μὴ βράδυνε μηδʼ ἐπιμνησθῇς ἔτι
Τροίας· ἅλις γάρ μοι τεθρήνηται γόοις.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
εἰ δοκεῖ, στείχωμεν.
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Φιλοκτήτης
ὦ γενναῖον εἰρηκὼς ἔπος.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
ἀντέρειδε νῦν βάσιν σήν.
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Φιλοκτήτης
εἰς ὅσον γʼ ἐγὼ σθένω.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
αἰτίαν δὲ πῶς Ἀχαιῶν φεύξομαι;
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Φιλοκτήτης
μὴ φροντίσῃς.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
1405
τί γάρ, ἐὰν πορθῶσι χώραν τὴν ἐμήν;
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Φιλοκτήτης
ἐγὼ παρὼν
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Νεοπτόλεμος
τίνα προσωφέλησιν ἔρξεις;
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Φιλοκτήτης
βέλεσι τοῖς Ἡρακλέους
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Νεοπτόλεμος
πῶς λέγεις;
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Φιλοκτήτης
εἴρξω πελάζειν.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
στεῖχε προσκύσας χθόνα.
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Ἡρακλῆς
μήπω γε, πρὶν ἂν τῶν ἡμετέρων
ἀίῃς μύθων, παῖ Ποίαντος·
1410
φάσκειν δʼ αὐδὴν τὴν Ἡρακλέους
ἀκοῇ τε κλύειν λεύσσειν τʼ ὄψιν.
τὴν σὴν δʼ ἥκω χάριν οὐρανίας
ἕδρας προλιπών,
1415
τὰ Διός τε φράσων βουλεύματά σοι
κατερητύσων θʼ ὁδὸν ἣν στέλλει·
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