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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ὁρῶ κενὴν οἴκησιν ἀνθρώπων δίχα.
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οὐδʼ ἔνδον οἰκοποιός ἐστί τις τροφή;
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Νεοπτόλεμος
στιπτή γε φυλλὰς ὡς ἐναυλίζοντί τῳ.
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τὰ δʼ ἄλλʼ ἔρημα, κοὐδέν ἐσθʼ ὑπόστεγον;
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αὐτόξυλόν γʼ ἔκπωμα, φλαυρουργοῦ τινος
τεχνήματʼ ἀνδρός, καὶ πυρεῖʼ ὁμοῦ τάδε.
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κείνου τὸ θησαύρισμα σημαίνεις τόδε.
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ἰοὺ ἰού· καὶ ταῦτά γʼ ἄλλα θάλπεται
ῥάκη, βαρείας του νοσηλείας πλέα.
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ἁνὴρ κατοικεῖ τούσδε τοὺς τόπους σαφῶς,
κἄστʼ οὐχ ἑκάς που· πῶς γὰρ ἂν νοσῶν ἀνὴρ
κῶλον παλαιᾷ κηρὶ προσβαίη μακράν;
ἀλλʼ ἢ ʼπὶ φορβῆς νόστον ἐξελήλυθεν
ἢ φύλλον εἴ τι νώδυνον κάτοιδέ που.
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τὸν οὖν παρόντα πέμψον εἰς κατασκοπήν,
μὴ καὶ λάθῃ με προσπεσών· ὡς μᾶλλον ἂν
ἕλοιτό μʼ ἢ τοὺς πάντας Ἀργείους λαβεῖν.
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ἀλλʼ ἔρχεταί τε καὶ φυλάξεται στίβος.
σὺ δʼ, εἴ τι χρῄζεις, φράζε δευτέρῳ λόγῳ.
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Ἀχιλλέως παῖ, δεῖ σʼ ἐφʼ οἷς ἐλήλυθας
γενναῖον εἶναι, μὴ μόνον τῷ σώματι,
ἀλλʼ ἤν τι καινὸν ὧν πρὶν οὐκ ἀκήκοας
κλύῃς, ὑπουργεῖν, ὡς ὑπηρέτης πάρει.
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τί δῆτʼ ἄνωγας;
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τὴν Φιλοκτήτου σε δεῖ
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ψυχὴν ὅπως δόλοισιν ἐκκλέψεις λέγων.
ὅταν σʼ ἐρωτᾷ τίς τε καὶ πόθεν πάρει,
λέγειν, Ἀχιλλέως παῖς· τόδʼ οὐχὶ κλεπτέον·
πλεῖς δʼ ὡς πρὸς οἶκον, ἐκλιπὼν τὸ ναυτικὸν
στράτευμʼ Ἀχαιῶν, ἔχθος ἐχθήρας μέγα,
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